If you are like me you have been watching the Governor Cuomo thing with glee. That guy has been doling out crappy hand after crappy hand and coming up roses for too long. He was intentionally using the media to cover for him, and even poked them in the eye while doing it. Peddling a book about your leadership, when that leadership resulted in all of those deaths is just a bit too Mao for me.

Now the dam is starting to break around him. Hot Air has a great piece on all of his recent walk backs.

One question that will have to be answered: which box does a forced kiss on an employee by a powerful governor fall into — “insensitive” or “too personal”? YMMV.

Anyway, it seems very clear that Cuomo and his team now fully expect to have more allegations surface in the coming days and weeks, either through James’ investigation or independently. This statement is intended to pre-empt the shoes that will drop over that time, no matter how many there will be. No more need for denials, which will provoke his progressive allies (“believe all women,” after all) and accelerate his departure rather than delay or defuse it. Instead, all Cuomo has to say now is, Well, I admitted that I was unwittingly insensitive and personal. Old story. Move on.

Now that the former aides are coming out of the woodwork, the good old governor is starting to panic. He even tried to put an old pal in charge of the inevitable investigation. That didn’t last very long.

The White House has been watching this closely. Jen Psaki, the press secretary, has been asked about previous comments made by the current empty suit in the Oval Office. She implements the 5 D’s of dodgeball and doesn’t answer:

“So does President Biden still consider Andrew Cuomo ‘the gold standard’ when it comes to leadership on the pandemic?” Karl asked.

“We work with Gov. Cuomo just like we work with governors across the country,” Psaki responded. “He’s also the chair of the NGA [National Governors Association] so he plays an important role in ensuring that we’re coordinating closely and getting assistance out to people of his state and to states across the country and we’ll continue to do that.”

I wonder why they aren’t immediately condemning the behavior of an accused abuser:

A second woman has come forward in an interview with a Connecticut newspaper to allege that former Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately.

Amy Lappos told the Hartford Courant on Monday that Biden pulled her in to rub noses with her at a 2009 fundraiser in Greenwich, Connecticut. Biden was vice president at the time.

This could blow up into another #MeToo movement and the President is a perfect target. These things work like a balloon that has been gradually filling over time. You never know exactly when it is going to burst, and who will be standing closest when it does.

The White House is just hoping that this thing goes away. In the mean time they will be dancing all around the obvious traps that the press is laying out for them. The White House knows that Cuomo has stepped on a landmine of his own making. They want to quietly slink away before it goes off.