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Murphy on Democrat Party Losses

Murphy -- Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images U.S. Senator Chris Murphy, usually cited by the nation’s left-leaning media as the new voice of the new-model neo-progressive Democrat Party, submitted to an interview by National Public Radio’s (NPR) Steve Inskeep following catastrophic party losses in the recently concluded national presidential election. Former President, now President-Elect Donald Trump won the popular vote, the Electoral College vote, and Republicans seized the U.S. Senate and maintained control of the U.S. House of Representatives – an unquestionable rout.   Inskeep was better at asking follow-up questions than were the few media interrogators privileged to interview Vice President Kamala Harris.   NPR noted that “Democrats,” Murphy among them, “are undergoing some introspection.” Democrats, Murphy advised, “need to listen to working Americans.”   Asked, “What do you think is wrong with your party?” Murphy replied, “Right now, people are feeling out of control
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Trump’s Triumph

It appears to be a clean sweep. Former President Donald Trump is now the President-Elect. The U.S. Senate has fallen into the hands of Republicans, and the U.S. House has followed in its train. The conservative wing of the Republican Party is pretending not to gloat. Leading Democrats are in abject disarray. Their party lies broken between two opposing groups – those who have vowed to continue an absurd politics dramatically rejected by a plurality of voters, and those, fewer in number, who value prudence above campaign braggadocio. Some Democrats have suggested a corrective move to what used to be considered the vital “moderate” center of American politics, but this too may pass.   It was German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck who noted that Americans never solve their most pressing problems, choosing instead to “amicably bid them goodbye.” The Democrat effort to install as president a candidate that had awkwardly bypassed all the checks and balances of conventional American presid

Connecticut 2024 Postmortem

From Yankee Institute Capitalizing on Democrat Party campaign errors, soon to be President Donald Trump, much reviled by Democrats and media allies as an autocrat slightly removed from Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, has made a clean sweep. He won the presidential office with a plurality of electoral votes – Trump, 277 Harris 224. Newsweek noted, “At the time of writing, [Nov 06, 2024, at 11:33 AM EST], Trump garnered 71,571,943 votes, or 51 percent of the popular vote, while Harris received 66,512,020, or 47.4 percent. In a separate story, Newsweek wrote, “With Republicans having been declared winners of the White House and the Senate, the race for the House of Representatives remains undecided. There are 435 voting members of the House, with 218 needed for a party to hold a majority. So far, the Associated Press has called 199 seats for the Republican Party and 180 for the Democrats. Of the 56 uncalled races, Republicans currently lead in 23, and they need to win 19 of those to s

Beer Tears

Trump After all the political tooting and hollering, we knew that following November 5 th someone, either Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump, would be shuttled into the White House by the U.S. Electoral College.   Democrats have been thumping the drums to eliminate the Electoral College as a relic of days gone by. Of course, every day, including yesterday, is a day gone by. Only Satan and his fallen angels are permitted by common consent to treat history as “bunk” – a phrase Henry Ford cribbed from Satan himself. “History is bunk,” said Ford.   Up-to-date neo-progressive Democrats believe gas powered Fords are bunk and should be dumped on the ash heap of history, to be replaced in a couple of decades by EVs, electric powered vehicles much too expensive to buy. Under certain conditions, EVs burst into unquenchable flames, and the infrastructure network supporting EVs, battery powering stations, remains sadly on the drawing boards.   Two days befor

Weicker Revisited, and the End of Two-Party Governance in Connecticut

Weicker paying court to Castro Facts always arrive at our doorsteps with tattoos attached.  It is important to get the facts straight so that, as Mark Twain somewhere says, you may them misinterpret them as you will. The tattoos are conventional interpretations.   Most reporters do not neglect to mention the fact that former U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker was, until he was relieved of his congressional responsibilities by then Connecticut Attorney General Joe Lieberman, a Republican. Weicker called himself a Jacob Javits Republican.   Republicans in Connecticut, many of whom heeded the call by Bill Buckley to cast their votes in the 1988 US Senatorial election for Lieberman rather than Weicker, had some doubts concerning Weicker’s true affiliation. During his last year as a U.S. Senator, Weicker was awarded high marks by the left leaning Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). The senator’s voting record in Congress during his last year in office was 20 points higher than that of

Bridgeport… Sigh….

Samson It’s a pretty straightforward news account, written by longtime reporter Chris Keating in the Hartford Courant and carried by the paper on its front page above the fold on Thursday, October 24 – “Senator claims election not secure.”   “Ariana Hernandez, who is a permanent resident but not a citizen,” the paper disclosed, “said in a sworn affidavit to the state Elections Enforcement Commission that Bridgeport city council member Alfredo Castillo came to her house in 2023 and said that he could help her with voting. ‘He told me to sign the voter’s registration application,’ Hernandez said in the affidavit that is dated October 4, 2024. ‘I did not fill out the form. I do not know when it was filled. I did not indicate on the form that I was a citizen. He told me that I would not have a problem if I voted as a permanent resident.’… He told me to sign the voter’s registration application,’ Hernandez said in the affidavit that is dated October 4, 2024.”   The form was signed b

Real Threats to the Democracy

Harris and Trump -- duMond/Brendan Smialowski/AFP/GETTY After Tuesday, November 5, it will become clear who had a sufficient number of electoral votes to win the 2024 presidential election, former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris. The election, we have been repeatedly told by pollsters, is “too close to call.”   Political commentators, of course, are not content to wait on certainty. It is speculation, some of it improbable, not certainty, that sells newspapers.   On the Republican side, Trump and Vice President Nominee J. D. Vance appear to be gathering momentum in the two weeks before the election, but momentum is not always dispositive. Money and positive coverage are also important in elections.   If Harris wins the presidency in November, the attempt by Democrats to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a popular vote may well succeed. The Electoral College was first introduced by the founders because they did not want populous states