Cuomo and Cruz: Politicians In a Pickle

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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The podcast crew enjoys watching Andrew Cuomo's halo turn into a shackle, and wonders at the larger meaning of Ted Cruz's self-inflicted disaster of a trip to a beach while his constituents freeze in their homes. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.6	Today is Friday, February 19, 2021.
0:32.6	I am John Pauldhort, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always senior writer for
0:37.4	steam rose and high Christine.
0:39.0	Hi John.
0:40.0	Executive editor, a Greenwald Hyab.
0:42.4	Hi John.
0:43.4	And associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.
0:45.9	Hi John.
0:46.9	Okay, we got so much to talk about.
0:48.8	Don't know where to go first.
0:51.5	We do we should go to our happy place, which is that the bells are finally tolling for
1:00.8	Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, the saint of COVID.
1:05.4	And what's interesting is that in the over the past couple of weeks since the release of
1:11.6	the report by the Democratic Attorney General of the state of New York that the Cuomo administration
1:16.9	had deliberately miscounted or undercounted.
1:20.6	The number of nursing home patients who had been sent back to nursing homes with COVID
1:27.6	and what that might portend.
1:31.0	All kinds of things have been happening and the Democratic legislature is now looking,
1:37.2	Democratic legislators in the state of New York otherwise terrified of Cuomo.
1:41.4	Previously terrified of Cuomo also part of the general consensus that Cuomo is wonderful
1:46.4	in every possible way.
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