Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye! Cuomo Resigns!

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation today, the culmination of the biggest sex scandal to hit the state since the brief reign of one of his predecessors, Eliot Spitzer, some fourteen years ago.

Curiously enough, Cuomo's intentional cover-up of the nursing home deaths during the first outbreak of the pandemic last year didn't seem to interest the progressive liberals who were once his main support and now demanded his ouster.

They clearly didn't care about elderly people sentenced to an isolated death in nursing homes on Cuomo's orders, and then ordering those figures to be lowered, which says a lot about progressive Democrats.

None of it good.

According to Todd Halliday, newscaster for WHAM Radio in Rochester, New York the Percoco scandal couldn't  bring him down; folding the Moreland Commission couldn't bring him down; the SUNY Poly scandal couldn't bring him down.

It was the claims of his sexually inappropriate behavior by several women adjudged by the state AG, Tish James, to be credible that brought his reign crashing down.

Of course, Tish James' own agenda was to seek the governor's office. What better way to accomplish that goal than by discrediting Cuomo, forcing his resignation and allowing his lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul, to succeed him briefly.

Kathy Hochul, a mostly invisible entity during the last two Cuomo terms, would be no real threat to James' running for governor.

But that is a different story.

The governor finally got it through his thick, inflated head that he would not survive impeachment, as drawn out as it might be, and his supporters weren't nearly as numerous or vocal as Trump's to attempt a putsch.

Cuomo's resignation today brought a sigh of relief to many people, mostly his former allies, who have been going out of their way making statements to the media that it was best to have Cuomo out.

And none of them, of course, ever noticed his wayward behavior before!

They also have forgotten one thing: Cuomo's resignation doesn't take effect for fourteen days!

There is a lot he can still do as governor in fourteen days.

Nor was there any good reason for it.

On August 9, 1974, Richard Nixon left the Presidency, having announced his resignation the night before. He knew there was no reason to stay on longer and that the jig was up.

Apparently, Cuomo does not.

Perhaps he plans to use the next two weeks shredding evidence, like Billary Clinton did during the hot and heavy days of the Whitewater Scandal when she was First Lady.

Perhaps he is working out deals to preclude future prosecution from what he has been accused of.

Maybe he's working out a new book deal, or maybe a movie project.

Ron Jeremy can play Cuomo's role in the film, IF he gets out of jail, where he currently resides because of sex abuse and rape charges.

That might be seen as appropriate type casting.

Or it might be that he might simply be looking for a place to live after he vacates the Governor's Mansion. Perhaps some of Jeffrey Epstein's properties might still be available?

But really, the tensions brought to New York State over these latest scandals was really getting to be too heavy a load to bear, and tension has long been a part of Andrew Cuomo's political make-up.

He is a no God-damned good megalomaniac who finally got his come-uppance from a group of women who finally put a stop to a politician whose progressive exactions on New York State should have been ended long ago.

And it's ironic that Cuomo will be replaced as governor, albeit temporarily, by a woman.

And the media is busily creating a personality for her, since nobody has really known anything about her for the last seven years.