Defending a move by majority Democrats in the Connecticut General Assembly to deal with prospective Medicaid cost increases, Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney of New Haven let the cat out of the bag. “In his wrap-up speech,” the Hartford Courant tells us, “Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, a New Haven Democrat, said the Medicaid funding was a ‘crisis’ that needed to be resolved in straightforward fashion. ‘We know there is a national problem in Medicaid that more and more people are relying on Medicaid [emphasis mine] ,’ Looney said on the Senate floor. ‘They often rely on Medicaid-paid aides if they are fortunate enough to live at home. This is a current problem. … The federal impact is coming, and we will probably have to deal with that in the fall.’” More and more people are relying on Medicaid principally because President Barack Obama was successful in extending the reach of a Medicaid program that initially was designed to cover catastro...
The Biden-Media Autopsy Several indicators suggest that the Democrat Party, following President Donald Trump’s dramatic and undisputed assent to the presidency, is slowly emerging from a monkish political seclusion. Months after the election decks had been cleared, Democrat strategist Sawyer Hackett let loose, according to an Associated Press (AP) report reprinted in the Hartford Courant, with the following thunderbolt: “The stench of [former President] Joe Biden still lingers on the Democrat Party. We have to do the hard work fixing that, and I think that includes telling the truth, frankly, about when we were wrong.” AP noted in its story, “Biden: Dem’s Unwanted Distraction,” that a “core controversy… has emerged following the publication of Original Sin , a book written by journalists Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thomson of Axios. The book “questions Biden’s decision to run for a second term despite voters, including Democrats, telling pollsters that ...