Lying Don, Fibbing Bill And Overbearing Andy

Those of us who considered President Trump’s first year in office both maddening and exhausting by the end of Year 2 were looking back wistfully at 2017, which now seems like two weeks in the country by comparison. To paraphrase an old friend of ours, on a crazyness scale of 1 to 10, Mr. Trump was a solid 17 in 2018, as developments ranging from the Democrats regaining a majority in the House of Representatives to Bob Mueller closing in on Mr. Trump with each new indictment brought the President closer to finally being held accountable.

It’s not that our local leaders were spending all, or even much, of their time doing us proud over the past year. Governor Cuomo in December had one of those weeks he probably never anticipated. First a Federal Judge indirectly implicated him in the Buffalo Billion ripoff while chastising his onetime economic guru whom he had proclaimed “New York’s secret weapon” for rigging the bidding process to favor contractors who were big contributors to the Governor because he wanted to suck up to him. Then it was disclosed that the State Attorney General was investigating why steel bolts used in the construction of a bridge named in memory of Mr. Cuomo’s father, Mario, fractured during the construction process.