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Harris and Sinwar

Biden and Harris The Bret Baier interview with Democrat Party presidential prospect Kamala Harris was a debate between Harris’ two faces. Baier simply held up the mirror to nature. He had less than 20 minutes in the interview, and Harris was fashionably late to arrive and early to leave.   The former interview-shy prosecutor, Vice President for nearly four years in the President Joe Biden administration, has been interviewing at the margins the last few weeks. The Baier interview should have been political Hollywood for her but, as part of a long term strategy to duck hard questions and embarrassing exposures, it turned out to be a glaring failure, largely owing to Baier’s persistent questioning.   The more Harris ducked and bobbed and weaved and let loose convoluted non-answers to Baier’s simple and necessary questions – How many illegal migrants have crossed the border during your nearly four years as Vice President in the Biden administration? Baier was looking for a number
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Marginalizing Wealth in Connecticut

Ritter Rising electric bills that have angered Connecticut voters are a very small tip of a very large iceberg.   In a Hartford Courant story – “ Anger over massive CT electric bills will drive voter choices on Election Day, GOP says ” – party honchoes assessed the anger.   Senate Republican leader Stephen Harding of Brookfield said. “Every day that I door-knock, every time I go to an event, I can’t speak to three or four constituents without the electric rates being brought up. People have had enough … Most voters want to see some effort to do something. We had an ability in a special session to stop the bleeding. On top of that, we can provide some immediate relief. At least it’s something. We should not dismiss it the way the Democrats have dismissed it.”   Hartford Democrat House Speaker Matt Ritter off-handedly dismissed Harding’s concerns and at the same time gave the neo-progressive game away when, shrugging his shoulders, he confessed that any attempt to provide a s

Are Political Debates Necessary?

Lincoln and Douglas Longtime Hartford Courant reporter Chris Keating pops the question in a front page, above the fold story: “Where are the debates?” and he notes, what all of us always knew, that long-term incumbent politicians tend to be debate-shy because – my opinion, not Keating’s – they regard continuance in office as an affirmation that successful incumbents need not present themselves to voter consideration during elections.   Longtime State Democratic Party chairwoman Nancy DiNardo says it without blushing: “Himes, DeLauro, Larson, and Courtney, too, [multi-term Democrats] tend to be strong candidates. I would think the Republicans have a hard time getting candidates who really want to run. … I have no doubts that whoever they debate that they would be able to beat them. Why, and this is just my opinion, give them any publicity so that people can see them? I don’t see the need for doing that.”   Also, Democrat incumbents do not wish to appear on stage with “Republican

Columbus Day and America Reconsidered

Columbus statue in New Haven removed Very little was known about Christopher Columbus when in 1892 President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation encouraging Americans to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage.   History tells us: “Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the Americas in 1492, and Columbus Day 2024 occurs on Monday, October 14. It was unofficially celebrated in a number of cities and states as early as the 18th century, but did not become a federal holiday until 1937… The first Columbus Day celebration took place in 1792, when New York’s Columbian Order—better known as Tammany Hall—held an event to commemorate the historic landing’s 300th anniversary. Taking pride in Columbus’ birthplace and faith, Italian and Catholic communities in various parts of the country began organizing annual religious ceremonies and parades in his honor… In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation encouraging Ameri

War, Woodward, Biden-Harris, Netanyahu

Netanyahu and Biden - Fox News Bob Woodward’s latest political Grand Guignol, War , will be available to the general public on October 15. In the meantime, we have reviews by select news organizations that have received advanced copies of the book full of horrific and devilish details. According to CNN, “Woodward’s new book, which was obtained by CNN ahead of its October 15 release, gives an unvarnished, in-the-room account of key moments as Biden and his national security team navigates international crises, from the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to confronting Putin before he invaded Ukraine to private battles with Netanyahu. “Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand participants, War is filled with newly reported details of high-stakes showdowns. The book explores the political and personal wars that Biden has fought during his presidency, including details about his decision to step aside from the 2024 campaign and conversations about his son Hunter Biden’s

A Brief Political Primer for Voters in Connecticut, 2024

John F. Kennedy-- the last liberal? When we say “Throw the bums out!” -- a common expression in politics -- by “bums” we generally mean incumbent politicians. Politically neutered minority politicians warming their backside on the backbenches are no threat to the state or voters. A politician unplugged is like a lamp disconnected, powerless and incapable of shedding light or producing active policy prescriptions. In Connecticut, during the last few decades, Republicans in the state have been unplugged. We may leave it to academics to tell us when this political mudslide began. Presently all the constitutional offices in Connecticut are occupied by Democrats; all the members of Connecticut’s US Congressional Delegation are Democrats; in the General Assembly, Democrats enjoy a nearly veto-proof majority, and Connecticut’s media appears to be suffering from a severe leftward-ho tropism. As is the case with the national media, Connecticut’s corporate media, less independent every day,

Blumenthal on Democracy and the Supreme Court

Blumenthal Ever since the elevation to the presidency of Donald Trump on November 8, 2016, the Democrat Party, national and state, has been trumpeting itself as the principal defender of democracy. For eight years, the Democrat Party has energetically pointed to Trump’s imagined disposition to bring the American Republic to an ignominious end in favor of a Stalinist authoritarianism. When the Supreme Court ruled, largely for administrative reasons, that partial immunity must be extended to presidents – all presidents, Republican and Democrat -- if a president is acting within his official capacity as president, U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal of Connecticut erupted in a following July 2024 press release: “The Supreme Court has put lawbreaking presidents like Donald Trump above the law. This cravenly political decision to shield President Trump grants him a legal armor that no other citizen enjoys [emphasis mine]. The net effect is not only to delay Trump’s criminal trial, but bestow an