Vice President Joe
Biden came to Connecticut for two reasons: to raise money – this is, after all,
election season – and to fist bump Governor Dannel Malloy. Mr. Biden had hardly
arrived in the state when some faithful Democrats began to wonder whether Mr. Malloy
had fallen out of favor with the White House. Why dispatch to such a faithful
state a second string, gaff prone VP? Where was President Barack Obama?
People who had heard
of the mass murder in Cheshire – and who did not? -- began to calculate how
long it would take the police to reach their house after they had put in a call
to report an impending home invasion. If the response time was, say, more than
twenty minutes, the householder, particularly if he lived in the suburban
outback, seriously pondered making a trek to his local gun supplier. A similar
uptick in gun purchases followed the mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary
School.
All seven members of
Connecticut’s all Democratic U.S. Congressional Delegation are energetic
progressive foot soldiers. Does the Obama administration wish all opposing Republicans
roasting in Hell? The Connecticut Democratic Party has long consigned
opposition Republicans to the nether regions. Mr. Malloy is the first Democratic
governor in two decades. The General Assembly has been a Democratic Party
preserve for many more years. Democrats outnumber Republicans by a two to one
margin in the state. Unaffiliateds or Independents outnumber Democrats by a
slight margin. There are no Republicans within Connecticut’s U.S. Congressional
delegation. All constitutional offices are held by Democrats.
Does the Obama
administration wish it could slip by Speaker of the U.S. Senate Harry Reid a
gun control bill as restrictive as the one recently rushed through Connecticut’s
General Assembly in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre? In the best of all possible worlds, it
certainly would. On the matter of gun restrictions, Connecticut has rushed in
where other states have feared to tread.
Is the Obama
administration impatient with state laws that prevent abortion facilities from
becoming chambers of horrors -- late-term abortion Kermit Gosnell chop shops?
Here comes Dick Blumenthal, the Senator from Planned Parenthood, clutching in
his fist a bill that would prevent states from imposing any regulations,
however reasonable, on abortion providers. Mr. Blumenthal, for twenty years and
more the state’s Attorney General, has sponsored the regulation of pretty nearly everything in Connecticut from soup to nuts, but abortion is a fetish of the
left that must never suffer restrictions, even such mild regulations as would
ensure the health and well-being of women who choose to avail themselves of
abortion services. The Blumenthal bill that would allow the federal government
to outlaw all present and future state abortion regulations would, with a
single stoke of the federal pen, abolish any regulation, however necessary,
imposed by Connecticut’s General Assembly on abortion providers.
In the matter of
crony capitalism, Mr. Malloy and Mr. Obama are neck and neck; of course, the
federal government being so much larger than Connecticut’s state government,
the scale of possible crony capitalist corruption is much greater in Washington
than Hartford. The corporations and special interests that benefit from Mr.
Obama’s attentions are much larger – and much more grateful – than those
favored by Mr. Malloy. But the crony capitalist process is the same: A
Democratic Government taxes the Middle Class, realizes a Potemkin Village
surplus, and transfers tax money and special exemptions to “struggling”
mega-businesses in return for votes and campaign cash.
Mr. Biden is also
interested in campaign cash, which is why he postponed important conferences
discussing the partition of Ukraine by Czar of all the Russians Vladimir Putin,
the beheading of two or more Americans by ISIS, a terrorist spin-off of al-Qaida
in Iraq, the possible reduction of U.S. unfunded liabilities, now in excess of
$127 trillion, the inflaming of racial tensions in Ferguson Missouri, the fraying
separation of powers doctrine under the sundering hand of Mr. Obama who, for
mysterious reasons, insists on refashioning bills passed by Congress through an
injudicious use of a power never granted to him by the U.S. Constitution – the
non-power NOT to execute laws passed by Congress. All these important matters
and more were left pending by Mr. Biden so that he might give a hand up and a
hand out to besieged Democrats in Connecticut.
Isn’t that nice? The
day after Mr. Biden wended his way back to Sodom on the Potomac, a new Rasmussen Report showed Mr. Malloy trailing his Republican opponent, Tom Foley,
by seven points, which is seven points down from Mr. Malloy’s post primary
estimate. At the tail end of the Republican Party primaries, Mr. Malloy said
that the race was 50-50 – same as it was during Mr. Foley’s first gubernatorial
challenge.
Mr. Foley hadn’t even budged the needle, the
eupeptic Mr. Malloy said.
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