SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT:

REMEMBER THE WONDERUL TEACHERS THAT WE HAD?  WHERE DID THEY GO? – FROM FOX:   UTLA (Los Angeles) teachers have been warned not to post vacation pictures on social media as the union continues to seek a safe return to in-person instruction amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report Monday.  The teachers were urged to keep spring break pictures off social media because it could hurt the union's argument that it's currently unsafe to return to the classroom, according to a screenshot that appeared to be from a roughly 5,700-member Facebook group titled, "UTLA FB GROUP- Members Only."  "Friendly reminder: If you are planning any trips for Spring Break, please keep that off of Social Media. It is hard to argue that it is unsafe for in-person instruction, if parents and the public see vacation photos and international travel," a post from the group read, according to FOX 11 of Los Angeles reporter Bill Melugin.  By the way, what is Spring Break breaking from?  They aren't even in school.  A far cry from the professionalism we saw among teachers in the days of our own youth.  What these kids are missing!

THE NEXT STEP – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:  Republicans in the state Assembly on Monday drafted a resolution to impeach Gov. Cuomo amid mounting allegations of inappropriate behavior with younger women and the scandal over nursing home deaths from COVID-19.  The resolution will be formally introduced on Tuesday, a spokesman for Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay (R-Syracuse) said.
During a news conference earlier in the day, Barclay said, “We’re going to introduce this resolution because we believe the time has come.”  “There’s been one bombshell after another,” Barclay said.  “I don’t think I’ve used the term bombshell, especially this weekend, anytime more in my life.”  Barclay’s comments came after two more women — former aides Ana Liss and Karen Hinton — on Saturday brought the number of Cuomo’s accusers to five.  Hinton, the wife of lobbyist and former Cuomo administration official Howard Glaser, claims Cuomo twice pulled her into an “intimate embrace” in 2000, when he was the US housing secretary under then-President Bill Clinton.  A short time after the GOP announcement, a group of 20 Democratic assemblywomen — including some of the chamber’s most powerful members — signaled they would oppose impeachment proceedings before the conclusion of a pending probe of the allegations against Cuomo.  I suspect this GOP action is designed to put Democrats on the record as opposing impeachment.  A useful tool at election time. 

March 8, 2021