The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn have launched an investigation that is examining, at least in part, the actions of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s coronavirus task force in its handling of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities during the pandemic, the Times Union has learned.
The probe by the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York is apparently in its early stages and is focusing on the work of some of the senior members of the governor’s task force, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter who is not authorized to comment publicly.
My, how the mighty have fallen? Just that quick from garnering an Emmy for his wonderful Covid response to actually being under FBI investigation for that same response. Most of us realistic conservative types who were led by the numbers and facts have always believed Cuomo did an extremely poor job. Most of America's liberal sheep were pull around by their nose by a dishonest media that attempted to turn Cuomo into a hero. He was worshiped by the left.
Now, apparently, some are pretending that this is all something new, when in fact it was obvious from the get go if you read anything other than the NYT and WaPo. Cuomo's personal decisions as Governor probably killed thousands of his own people, while he basked in the glory of being idolized by his friend son the left.
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Cuomo dutifully reported to the "big guy"
Probably kissed his ring and promised some green.
The "big guy" destroyed Corn Pop
and is killer at Mario Kart
And he knows the smartest guy around - Hunter
NY dems are surprisingly vocal in their attacks on Cuomo over this. I suspect that since he is now in his 11th year as gov, they would like to move on from him and put in AG James for the next 10 years.
Senator Ron Johnson
https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1362215036207443968
General Honoré is an extreme partisan and should be the LAST person to head up an investigation of what happened at the Capitol on Jan 6th.
For example: (link above)
and
Russel L. Honore'
https://twitter.com/ltgrusselhonore/status/1347407926785413121
These are Sean Hannity's leading advertisers https://mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/these-are-sean-hannitys-leading-advertisers PLEASE stop buying their shit stocks @seanhannity speaks #Russian iNFO OPERATIONS TO SUCK UP TO #45
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This guy is going to lead an impartial investigation ??? Really ???
Democrats are running with the Mueller playbook.
Put extreme partisans in running "investigations"
Wonder what they will "find"
Much worse than dirty cops.
Probably same with Cuomo unless he becomes a burden
Biden's America
Banana Republic
1984
We're fucked
Cuomo is dead meat.
I have moved on.
Trump will become dead meat.
Republicans had better move on.
And oh, there is just so much good, good reading at politicalwire.com this morning and also last night.
Alky is always so spectacularly wrong.
First he predicted unemployment declines.
True is :
"
Unemployment claims rose to 861,000 last week, halting a downward trend that pointed to an improving labor market."
Roger, when do you ru. from your prediction of Bidenomics will have the US Economy back to pre-pandemic levels across the Board by April 30th?
"The Unreliables" of wind and Solar killed "The New Green Deal. Mother Nature did US all a yuge favor.
Breaking911
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1362226173833584643
BREAKING: New York State Senate Democrats are moving to strip Gov. Cuomo of his emergency powers -NYT
I wonder if CNN, the NYT and WP will be deplatformed for spreading all that misinformation about him and spread by the likes of political_lire and their water boys.
Yeah, right.
New York Post
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1362361492260216832
CNN says it reinstated a ban on Chris Cuomo covering his brother, Gov. Cuomo https://trib.al/QI2qo3e
ROFLMFAO !!!
Joe Biden's America
FAKE NEWS
Banana Republic
1984
He's a great American.
Former Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole, 97, announced Thursday that he has been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.
The big picture: Dole served in the U.S. Senate for 27 years, including 11 years as as GOP leader, before retiring in 1996. He unsuccessfully ran for vice president on President Gerald Ford's ticket in 1976, and for president in 1980, 1988 and 1996. Dole clinched the Republican nomination in 1996 but was ultimately defeated in the general election by Bill Clinton.
What they're saying: "Recently, I was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. My first treatment will begin on Monday. While I certainly have some hurdles ahead, I also know that I join millions of Americans who face significant health challenges of their own," Dole said in a statement.
NOT OK... it’s been confirmed #SenTedCruz and his family flew to Cancun today for a vacation during the worst winter nightmare in Texas.
Cruz seems to believe there isn't much for him to do in Texas for the millions of fellow Texans who remain without electricity/water and are literally freezing.
#texaswinterstorm2021 #VoteWisely
Cruz seems to believe there isn't much for him to do in Texas for the millions of fellow Texans who remain without electricity/water and are literally freezing.
so what exactly would you have him do alky?
if he did go down and try to help your criticize THAT and bitch that he did it for a photo op.
fuck off, you drunken fucking hack.
alky,
Don't have all the details but then you must definitely agree it was not OK for President Biden to be playing Mario Kart while Covid deaths rage on along with many other emergencies.
WHAT WILL COME OF THIS?
I did not find this at politicalwire.com,
but at AOL.
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Escalating Feud Between Trump and McConnell
Threatens the Future of the GOP
Trump-McConnell feud threatens Republicans' path to power
AOL Associated Press
by Steve Peoples
February 18, 2021, 8:46 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is escalating a political war within his own party that could undermine the Republican push to fight President Joe Biden's agenda and ultimately return the party to power.
A day after blistering Mitch McConnell, the Senate's top Republican, as a “dour, sullen and unsmiling political hack,” Trump repeated his baseless claim on Wednesday that he was the rightful winner of the November election in a series of interviews with conservative outlets after nearly a month of self-imposed silence.
Trump continued to attack McConnell, accusing the Senate GOP leader of failing to stand up for Republicans after McConnell blasted Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot despite voting to acquit the former president at his second impeachment trial.
“The Republicans are soft. They only hit their own, like Mitch,” Trump complained on Newsmax. “If they spent the same time hitting (Senate Democratic leader Chuck) Schumer and (President Joe) Biden, the Republicans would be much better off, that I can tell you."
Republican officials in several battlegrounds carried by Biden, including Georgia and Arizona, have said the vote was fair. Trump's legal claims surrounding the vote were rejected by judges across the political spectrum, including many appointed by the former president. McConnell himself described Trump's contention as an “unhinged falsehood.”
Leading GOP strategists described the exploding feud between the Republican former president and the Senate's most powerful Republican as, at best, a distraction and, at worst, a direct threat to the party's path to the House and Senate majorities in next year's midterms.
“I don’t think he cares about winning," Steven Law, a McConnell ally who leads the most powerful Republican-aligned super PAC in Washington, said of Trump. "He just wants it to be about himself.”
MY, MY
Law noted that Trump lost several states where Republicans face must-win Senate elections in next year's quest to break up Democrats' control of Congress, including in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Republicans are also competing in Nevada and New Hampshire, where Trump was defeated, and in North Carolina, where Trump barely won.
If Trump tries to make himself “the center of attention,” Law said, "that actually could cost Republicans seats in the general election.”
Such infighting is not altogether unusual after a political party loses the White House, but in this case, the feuding factions have been willing to attack each other publicly. And there was a broad consensus on Wednesday that the ugly intraparty clash would likely extend well into next year's congressional primary season. MY, MY.
The stakes may be higher this time, however, as key players — Trump, among them — have openly threatened the prospect of creating a new political party, which would endanger the Republican Party's very existence. OH, YES!
Roughly 120 anti-Trump Republicans, including current and former officeholders, secretly convened earlier in the month to contemplate the future of the GOP. A plurality, or 40%, supported the idea of creating a new party, according to an internal survey provided by one of the meeting's organizers, former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin.
“There's a lot of energy out there for something new," McMullin said, while encouraging Trump to follow through with his threats of creating a Patriot Party. “Frankly, I would welcome him to start a new party and take his most loyal supporters with him. I think that would be a wonderful thing for the party and the country.”
MY, MY
Trump’s plans for the future are still coming together in West Palm Beach, Florida.
He has been banned from Facebook and Twitter for inciting violence, but on Wednesday, he broke his monthlong silence, giving his first interviews since leaving the White House after the death of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.
On Newsmax, Trump said his team was still exploring its options for returning to social media and “negotiating with a number of people,” while still keeping the option of building his own platform on the table.
“We're looking at a lot of different things, but I really wanted to be somewhat quiet,” Trump said, sidestepping repeated questions about whether he intends to run again in 2024.
“Too early to say,” he said, while acknowledging that he missed being president.
Still, Trump said that he has had no problem communicating when he wants to by issuing statements — and has made clear this week that he will not retire quietly.
The former president hurled a series of personal insults at McConnell in a fiery written statement Tuesday. Mainstream Republicans were perhaps most concerned about his threat to support primary challengers against Republican candidates who don't fully embrace his “Make America Great Again” philosophy.
Some feared that Trump might encourage Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to run for the Senate, though there was no evidence of that. The fears hark back to the GOP’s struggle a decade ago when a handful of tea party candidates with baggage emerged from their Senate primaries and stymied the GOP from retaking a majority.
MY, MY. MARJORIE HAS BEEN HIT WITH SOME INTERESTING SEXUAL PROMISCUITY MATTERS LATELY.
In Indiana, Richard Mourdock defeated six-term Sen. Richard Lugar in the 2012 primary, but he imploded after a debate in which he said pregnancy resulting from rape “is something that God intended.” In Missouri, Republican nominee Todd Akin lost after he insisted on a local talk show that women’s bodies have ways to avoid pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.”
And in Delaware, tea party favorite Christine O’Donnell beat a longtime GOP congressman before losing by a landslide in the 2010 general election following reports of personal financial difficulties, questionable use of campaign funds and allegations that she had “dabbled into witchcraft."
Now that Trump has invigorated a similarly populist movement, Republicans need to recruit candidates who can navigate a pro-Trump primary and maintain statewide appeal while not alienating establishment-minded donors. That's no easy task.
NOPE, IT WILL NOT BE. HO, HO!
The Senate Republican campaign arm, led by Florida Sen. Rick Scott, will not get involved in open primaries. But McConnell’s advisers have not ruled out the possibility — even if it draws Trump’s ire.
“You can’t let insanity go unchecked, or it will eat you alive,” said Josh Holmes, a top McConnell political adviser.
A BIT LATE TO REALIZE THAT.
“He just wants to win,” he said of McConnell. “If he has to act as a heat shield, so be it.”
POOR MITCH. CAN HE BRING IT OFF?
Meanwhile, Trump broke his monthlong media blackout Wednesday, calling into Fox News, Newsmax and OANN and repeating what Democrats have labeled his “big lie”: his insistence that he won the 2020 election, even though he lost to Biden by millions of votes.
Dozens of judges, local election officials and even his own administration have said there was no evidence of mass voter fraud, but that hasn’t stopped Trump from saying there was, even after the riot at the Capitol building that left five dead.
“Well, Rush thought we won. And so do I, by the way. I think we won substantially,” Trump told Fox.
He did not call out McConnell by name, but he acknowledged critics within his own party: “We don’t have the same support at certain levels of the Republican system."
HE CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!
Meanwhile, Law sought to downplay Trump's grip on the Republican Party. He noted that Trump's approval rating among Republican voters, at close to 80%, stands at a similar mark to that of former President George W. Bush following the Iraq War and the 2007 financial meltdown.
The focus on the next election cannot be Trump, he said.
“We will do everything we can to make the focus Joe Biden and the Pelosi-Schumer Congress. We can win with that,” Law said. "The challenge is if there’s a way in which Trump finds a way to make himself the focus next fall.”
HE SURE WILL TRY. TRUMP DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE GOP. ONLY HIMSELF.
Hope you enjoyed my brilliant cut and paste.
Bold faced emphases and CAPITALIZED COMMENTS show best where I stand.
I see the POS "pastor" is now OFFICIALLY BAT SHIT INSANE !!!
great points about Cuomo there boy
oh wait, you're still back on Trump
get a fucking life
or a room with the alky
ROFLMFAO !!!
Not a single intelligent comment about the article itself, I notice. :-)
Better expressed:
Not a single convincing REFUTATION of the points made in the article.
Banana Republic
1984
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! That would be the Red Great State of Texas and their GOP leaders.....people are freezing to death and Cruz relaxes in Cancun!!!!!!! Sure says a lot of the GOP!!!!!!
Because the Republicans don't believe in science, we will have to have another Reconstruction when we allowed reality.
When California faced energy issues in August related to a heat wave, many Republicans including Texas politicians pointed to it as an example of Democratic mismanagement.
Now, Texas is under the microscope, with experts pointing to the state's deregulated energy grid (and its lack of cold weather preparation) as the culprits.
Data from Texas makes clear that renewable energy failures have played only a small part in the crisis.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which plays the role of traffic cop for Texas' energy providers, directing energy from producers to distributors, predicted that this winter would see wind produce about 7,070 megawatts at peak load times. By the council's own daily figures, wind power in Texas has produced between 4,415 and 8,087 megawatts at peak times since the storm began.
By contrast, the state's "thermal fleet" — mostly natural gas, but also including coal and nuclear power — has been down significantly more, leading to a shortfall of 30,000 megawatts, the council told the local news outlet WKYC.
About 56 percent of Texas' energy comes from natural gas, just under 24 percent comes from wind, 19 percent from coal, and almost 9 percent from nuclear energy.
"About a third of our thermal fleet is offline," said Joshua Rhodes, a research associate at the University of Texas in Austin who specializes in the power grid. "We typically count on about 90 percent of it being available during a peak event."
"From freezing gas wells and gas lines, to depressurization of our natural gas infrastructure because so many homes and businesses are calling for gas at the same time, we just don't have enough fuel," he said.
That has not stopped many Republican politicians from pointing to the crisis as a reason to oppose broader climate efforts.
Several House Republicans who vocally oppose the Green New Deal, including Rep. Dan Crenshaw from Texas, Rep. Andy Barr from Kentucky, and Rep. Lauren Boebert from Colorado, have tweeted that the legislation would lead to situations like what Texas is dealing with now.
There are challenges to renewable energy as the country's primary or sole power source, but experts say advances in batteries and other technologies are making it more feasible.
Rhodes said that accepting scientists' findings on climate change will be key to avoiding similar disasters in Texas in the future.
"The science is telling us we're going to have more variability in our weather," he said. "In Texas, when we think of more variability in our weather, we usually think of hotter, drier summers, but it goes the other way, as well."
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Governor Abbott should be investigated for failing to tell the truth to the people.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fact-check-renewable-energy-not-blame-texas-energy-crisis-n1258185
You have to give the Democrats for investigating the Democratic Governor Cuomo.
The Banana Republic of Texas!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
I thought Rick Perry saying texans don't mind some black outs if it keeps the Govmt out was Priceless!!!!!!
Roger Amick said...
You have to give the Democrats for investigating the Democratic Governor Cuomo.
Only almost a year after Republicans called for it.
And many Dems were pushing for him to be their presidential candidate
They found a worse one.
Joe Biden's America
Banana Republic
King of Mario Kart
Crime pays
They're not bad guys, guys
That's probably why they're in the Covid relief package - that's CHINA if you haven't figured it out.
I notice no one has yet given ANY intelligent, valid refutations of ANYTHING in posts 9:55-10:00 am.
So everything in that article must be correct!
I just contributed some intriguing questions to the top thread up ("When did the term disinformation...").
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Because the Republicans don't believe in science, we will have to have another Reconstruction when we allowed reality.
says the assclown whose party cannot grasp the concept of chromosomes.
LOL.
THWAP!!!
LOL.
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