The laugh test. And failing it.

The laugh test. And failing it.

Mr. Cuomo said early on that the commission would be “totally independent” and free to pursue wrongdoing anywhere in state government, including in his own office. “Anything they want to look at, they can look at — me, the lieutenant governor, the attorney general, the comptroller, any senator, any assemblyman,” he said last August.

"A commission appointed by and staffed by the executive cannot investigate the executive,” the statement said. “It is a pure conflict of interest and would not pass the laugh test.”

Once upon a time, Working Families Party Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York promised to clean up his state's endemic corruption.But it's been confirmed that yup, that was all bullshit, since Cuomo killed the commission once it started subpoena'ing the governor's friends and allies.Got it? A governor creates a commission to root out corruption, wherever it may be found, including the governor's office, but once it started finding corruption in the governor's office, it became a "conflict of interest" for it to clean up the governor's office.

Yup, this definitely doesn't pass the laugh test, but not in the way that corrupt governor claims.