{"id":324695,"date":"2021-08-15T03:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T00:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/so-long-to-the-at-odds-cuomo-de-blasio-couple-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2021-08-15T03:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T00:50:01","slug":"so-long-to-the-at-odds-cuomo-de-blasio-couple-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/so-long-to-the-at-odds-cuomo-de-blasio-couple-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#So long to the at-odds, Cuomo-de Blasio couple: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39894f5a50a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39894f5a50a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/so-long-to-the-at-odds-cuomo-de-blasio-couple-goodwin\/#Covering_all_bases\" >Covering all bases\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/so-long-to-the-at-odds-cuomo-de-blasio-couple-goodwin\/#As_Bam_foretold_Biden_is_effing_up\" >As Bam foretold: Biden is effing up\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#So long to the at-odds, Cuomo-de Blasio couple: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Michael Goodwin\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/michael-goodwin1.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gov. Groper is almost gone and Mayor Putz is moving toward the exit. Who says there\u2019s no good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cuomo\u2019s resignation and the term-limited end of Mayor de Blasio give New York state and city much-needed chances for fresh starts. While the slate isn\u2019t wiped clean, the unusual near-simultaneous changes at the top create an opening to clean up the mess the two men helped create and reverse the sharp decline of recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Put it this way: Kathy Hochul in Albany and, presumably, Eric Adams in City Hall can\u2019t screw up more than Cuomo and de Blasio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the last eight years, their performance confirmed them as the worst team of governor and mayor in modern times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Successful teamwork doesn\u2019t require the top officials to like each other, and most don\u2019t. Oddly, the screeching is loudest when they hail from the same party.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats Mario Cuomo and Ed Koch were born to battle, and Republicans George Pataki and Rudy Giuliani had a blood feud that wouldn\u2019t quit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet they and nearly all other combinations over the last 50 years understood they had to work together toward common goals. They realized, in broad terms, that what is good for the five boroughs is good for the whole state, and vice versa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Cuomo and de Blasio didn\u2019t see it that way. They were former friends who became bitter enemies and let their personal hatred interfere with their public duties. They rarely spoke.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most of the blame falls on Cuomo, whose dark mind and towering ego led him to spend more effort trying to one-up de Blasio than helping the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the COVID crisis, for example, there were times when de Blasio proposed an idea, only to have Cuomo ridicule it one day and adopt it the next day, as if he thought of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The more the city suffered from crime, education rot and the virus, the more petty Cuomo became. He acted as if his only job was to criticize de Blasio as incompetent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/eric-adams-nyc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Eric Adams is likely to be the next mayor of NYC.\" class=\"wp-image-19135287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/eric-adams-nyc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/eric-adams-nyc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/eric-adams-nyc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/eric-adams-nyc.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Eric Adams is likely to be the next mayor of NYC.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Gabriella Bass<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was right, and you can add corrupt and lazy, too. But de Blasio\u2019s failings are an argument for why Cuomo should have gone the extra mile to help. A governor who cared about the population and economic center of the state would have done something besides throw bombs from the sidelines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Had Gov. Hugh Carey behaved that way when Mayor Abe Beame flopped during the \u201970s fiscal crisis, the city would have gone belly up and might not have recovered. Instead, Carey engineered solutions and city and state both benefitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Cuomo, on the other hand, actually hurt the city in three critical areas over recent years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, although de Blasio is anti-police, Cuomo embraced an equally bad idea by signing the so-called bail-reform law that turned courthouses into revolving doors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second, de Blasio is upfront about his virulent opposition to charter schools and turned the Department of Education over to the rapacious unions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo claimed to be for charters but stabbed the organizers and the poor families who count on them in the back. The governor once fought for increasing the number of charters and vowed to be the students\u2019 lobbyist. But in recent years, he surrendered to the teachers unions on raising the number of available charter slots, with the result that no more schools can open in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/August-12-2021-NYC-mayor-Bill-de-Blasio.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Mayor de Blasio is finishing his final term in office.\" class=\"wp-image-19135304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/August-12-2021-NYC-mayor-Bill-de-Blasio.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/August-12-2021-NYC-mayor-Bill-de-Blasio.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/August-12-2021-NYC-mayor-Bill-de-Blasio.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/August-12-2021-NYC-mayor-Bill-de-Blasio.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor de Blasio is finishing his final term in office.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Third, on taxes, de Blasio believes the more the merrier and never said otherwise. Cuomo took office in 2011 saying New York had no future as the nation\u2019s tax capital, but 11 years later, it retains that destructive distinction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the city\u2019s limit of two terms saved Gotham from the prospect of more de Blasio. But Albany has no term limits and had he not been pushed to resign after the attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>\u2019s finding that he sexually harassed 11 women, Cuomo would have been in office for another year and might have won a fourth term in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His bullying and obsession with revenge had become a drag on New York long before the groping scandal ended his toxic tenure. But never to be forgotten is his lethal order sending infected COVID patients to nursing homes and his corrupt attempts to hide the truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Hochul-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"New York Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul will step in as Governor once Andrew Cuomo officially steps down.\" class=\"wp-image-19135307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Hochul-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Hochul-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Hochul-1-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul will step in as Governor once Andrew Cuomo officially steps down.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Hans Pennink\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Against that grim record, Hochul will benefit just from not being him. Her pledge to rid the government of anyone who behaved unethically during the harassment saga sets the right tone, as did her first press conference where she took more questions than Cuomo did in several months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her reputation for common-sense initiatives will be tested by the radical, spendthrift Legislature, but a public sick of Cuomo will give her a honeymoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her top order of business must be to align with Adams, whose focus on fighting crime will increasingly take center stage as the general election nears. Her support for his agenda would be a powerful symbol and bring practical results in Albany that could be replicated in upstate cities also facing crime waves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And imagine the impact if they combined forces to press for an increase in the charter cap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another key area is rebuilding the MTA leadership, which Cuomo destroyed. The subways are especially critical to the city\u2019s recovery, but the MTA is a state agency, so teamwork is vital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/080421subway5RM.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"MTA leadership took a hit under Gov. Cuomo.\" class=\"wp-image-19135316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/080421subway5RM.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/080421subway5RM.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/080421subway5RM.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/080421subway5RM.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>MTA leadership took a hit under Gov. Cuomo.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In these and other ways, seeing the new leaders working together to make New York safe and vibrant again would create a much-needed spirit of public optimism across the Empire State. Their cooperation would also be the perfect antidote to the long nightmare of Cuomo and de Blasio.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Covering_all_bases\"><\/span>Covering all bases\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Reader Gene Zonis, noting the Cleveland Indians are now the Cleveland Guardians, raises a question: \u201cIs the US government going to change the name of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the Bureau of Guardian Affairs?\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"As_Bam_foretold_Biden_is_effing_up\"><\/span>As Bam foretold: Biden is effing up\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t underestimate Joe\u2019s ability to f-\u200a-k things up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what Barack Obama said about his former vice president, Joe Biden, last year. Events are proving Obama was on to something.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden has set in motion two humanitarian disasters, and both could have been avoided. The debacle of the southern border being flooded with illegal crossers, many of them COVID-infected, and the Taliban atrocities in Afghanistan are the direct result of decisions he made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the border, he dismantled the web of agreements and rules put in place by Donald Trump that cut the migrant flow to a trickle. Now, new arrival records are set every month, and the White House seems paralyzed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC09355.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A general view of the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.\" class=\"wp-image-19135154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC09355.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC09355.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC09355.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/DSC09355.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Taliban have overrun the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Jake Simkin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump called for an end to our military presence in Afghanistan and made a bad deal with the Taliban, but Biden is the one who decided to remove the troops suddenly and without coordinating with Afghan forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As military historian Fred Kagan writes in The New York Times: \u201cA responsible withdrawal needed more time and better preparation. History will record Mr. Biden, a supposed master of foreign policy for decades, as having failed in this most critical assignment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>F-\u200a-k-ups don\u2019t get much bigger.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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