The LooneyDuff to Connecticut taxpayers: “Yes, we can spend our way to Prosperity” The headline in the Hartford Courant – “ Lamont confronts spending cap ” -- was slightly and unintentionally misleading. Actually, Lamont is, and has been for his whole term in office, confronting Democrat gatekeepers in the General Assembly, two of whom, President Pro Tempore of the State Senate Martin Looney and Majority Leader Bob Duff, are arch progressives. House leader Matt Ridder is more cautious than Looney, whose largely urban district has been in Democrat hands for decades. Perhaps operating under the false pretenses of British economist John Maynard Keynes who famously suggested that states needn’t worry overmuch about their national debt because “It is a debt we owe to ourselves,” Connecticut’s debt lovers have been in the business for decades of boosting the state’s accumulative deficit. Under the direction of dominant state Democrats, Connecticut has managed to compile...
It’s the New York Post , and so there are pictures. One shows Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy canoodling with “Courier Newsroom publisher Tara McGowan, 39, last Monday by the bar at the Red Hen, located just one mile north of Capitol Hill.” The canoodle occurred one day or night prior to Murphy’s well-advertised absence from President Donald Trump’s recent Joint Address to Congress. Murphy has said attendance at what was essentially a “campaign rally” involving the whole U.S. Congress – though Democrat congresspersons signaled their displeasure at the event by stonily sitting on their hands during the applause lines – was inconsistent with his dignity as a significant part of the permanent opposition to Trump. Reaching for his moral Glock Murphy recently told the Hartford Courant that Democrat Party opposition to President Donald Trump should be unrelenting and unforgiving: “I think people won’t trust you if you run a campaign saying that if Donald Trump is ...