Zombies Eat Michael Moore, Rennie Scalps Moody, Lamont Resurrected

Good news for U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, who takes some lumps in the New Michael Moore propaganda film “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

Zombieland, a film staring Woody Harrelson – "box office poison" according to this reviewer – has soared to the number 1 box office position this week, leaving Moore’s film eating dust.

“The pic's buzz was surprisingly good with even critics embracing first-time director Ruben Fleischer. That translated into a CinemaScore of "A-" -- "A" for males, "A-" for females, "A" for everybody under 35. It's Sony's 6th #1 movie of the year.”

In capitalist America, as everyone who has viewed Moore’s previous agiprop films well knows, it’s all about money and competition. On it’s opening weekend, Capitalism pulled in a paltry $5M.

“…(Moore’s) Fahrenheit 9/11 did $23.9M its opening weekend from 868 venues.) So, as much as the left loves Moore, and the right detests him, and he always uses the ensuing controversy to self-promote, the money angle is only what interests me. The fact is that Capitalism: A Love Story looks like its domestic total will fail to crack $20M and end up his worst performing film since his Oscar-winner Bowling For Columbine in 2002."

Is There Life After Lieberman?

Some people, among them columnist and talk show host Colin McEnroe, are attempting to blow some hot air into the Ned Lamont dirigible.

Lamont, it will be remembered, was the heart throb of Connecticut’s far left when he challenged then Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman in a primary and won. Successfully defending his senate seat, Lieberman ran as an independent in the general election and won. He then endorsed John McCain over Barack Obama in the presidential election and lived to tell the tale.

After the bout, Lamont drifted off to NoWhereVille. McEnroe now has discovered a use for him.

Lamont has been launching tantalizing salvoes against Gov. Jodi Rell on his blog. Might not these slings and arrows indicate that Lamont is interested in running against the governor, McEnroe asks?

His answer is tantalizingly diffuse.

“I think the rumor,” which McEnroe is retailing on his own blog, possibly as a political feeler directed towards Lowell Weicker and Tom D’Amore, “is premature. Lamont has made a transition from somewhat interested to very interested, but he can afford to wait a while longer, especially if the incumbent governor is going to make clear her intention in November.”

During the Lamont-Lieberman set-to, McEnroe a couple of times invited Weicker on his program to bloviate about Lamont and Weicker’s old nemeses Lieberman.

“Lamont 2010,”McEnrore wrote, “would be a lot different from Lamont 2006. He can no longer completely count on the people in the party who were his fervent supporters four years ago. Some of those people are going to support Bysiewicz and/or Malloy in this race. My guess is that Lamont himself would also drift away from the left and try to stake out more of a center-left pro-business no-new-taxes position. Even the act of self-funding -- a dire necessity in 2006 for him to have any chance jumping in late against Lieberman -- would be a harder pill to swallow for the pro-campaign-finance reform progressives who were his shock troops in 2006.”

Rennie Calls For Moody’s Scalp

Over at the Hartford Courant, columnist Kevin Rennie is calling open the shakers and movers of the Republican Party to give Rell aide Lisa Moody the heave ho.

In the process, Rennie, understandably frantic, threw a hatchet at Republican senatorial hopeful Sam Caligiuri: “State Sen. Sam Caligiuri could deploy his creepy piety in the service of something worthy.”

Apparently, Rennie likes his piety straight up.

Casey Chadwick’s Uneasy Life after Death

Casey and her mother Wendy "I just started grief counseling. I'm always sad. I'm sad and in pain and I miss her." Wendy Hartling Hartling is the mother of Casey Chadwick, murdered in 2015 by Jean Jacques , an illegal Haitian immigrant. Jacques was convicted of the murder of Chadwick in a New London Superior Court jury trial and sentenced by Judge Barbara Bailey Jongbloed to a 60 year term in prison. Since Jacques is 44 years of age, the sentence was, in effect, a life sentence. Connecticut Commentary coverage of the Chadwick murder may be found here , and here and here . Jacques could not have been sentenced to death because Connecticut’s Democrat dominated General Assembly, under pressure from the state Supreme Court, had abolished Connecticut’s death penalty law in 2012 . The slaughter of Chadwick was particularly brutal. Her body had been found by a friend who, opening a door to a closet, discovered Chadwick stuffed in a dark corner drenched in blo...

Understanding North Korea Through Dramaturgy

The U.S. military is sending the Vinson Strike Group, including the carrier and two guided-missile destroyers, to operate in the Western Pacific Ocean in response to Pyongyang’s recent missile tests. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, asked about the strike force, issued a terse statement: “The United States has spoken enough about North Korea. We have no further comment.” Is this a post-Syrian bombing mission? Will the US take out North Korea’s missile launching sites, possibly with the unspoken concurrence of China? Never let a bombing go to waste. There are some in the United States who think any such incident should be used to rid North Korea of that runty little totalitarian cock-of-the-walk who keeps his countrymen starved, in fear and at his knees. Since we only have one chance, they say, go for the clean sweep -- no more Kims. Connecticut Commentary is reprinting an earlier piece about the Kims here. Best read with a glass of port.

The Blumenthal Burisma Connection

Steve Hilton , a Fox News commentator who over the weekend had connected some Burisma corruption dots, had this to say about Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal’s association with the tangled knot of corruption in Ukraine: “We cross-referenced the Senate co-sponsors of Ed Markey's Ukraine gas bill with the list of Democrats whom Burisma lobbyist, David Leiter, routinely gave money to and found another one -- one of the most sanctimonious of them all, actually -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal."

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