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Connecticut’s spending problem
Spending cuts are rare in “the land of steady [bad] habits.” A
blushingly honest Democrat will tell you, “You can’t cut spending in
Connecticut without cutting your own political throat – in particular, state
union employee votes and the invaluable boots-on-the ground campaign assistance
provided by unionized state workers, who unfailingly know which side their
bread is buttered on.
An AI
replacement
Connecticut’s Democrat dominated General Assembly has passed
a bill regulating Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Every morning of their waking lives, socialists arise weeping
tears of blood and vowing vengeance on the rich. AI is fertile ground both for
the rich and hopeful aspiring entrepreneurs.
At this point, very early in the game, all AI regulations and all costs
associated with them rest on shaky predictions -- because there is no such
thing as a “perfect” undeveloped technology. In a sane Connecticut economy,
perhaps after neo-progressives are sent packing, every regulation would be
accompanied by a cost estimate. Like tariffs, the bete noir of anti-capitalist socialists, regulations are taxes on
products and services, usually passed on for payment to inattentive tax payers.
When Martin Looney, one of two crucially important legislative
gatekeepers in Connecticut’s hegemonic General Assembly, announced early in May
2026 that he would not be running for office again, Attorney General William
Tong did not announce that his position might easily be filled by an “AI
Companion,” thus saving the state some money in reduced expenditures. Looney
has strongly suggested that Majority Leader of the State Senate Bob Duff, who
some have called Looney 2.0, might be a propitious replacement.
Connecticut’s
War on Wealth
The nation’s neo-progressive war on wealth has been in
process for years. The political barbs, initially directed at millionaires have
been repurposed, likely because outspoken anti-Trump Democrats such as
Vermont’s U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a pre-Mamdani socialist fixture, reached
the million-mark several years ago. Democrat contumely is now directed at Republican
billionaires. Both Governor Ned
Lamont and U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, multi-millionaires, have so far fallen
short. Sanders is not there yet, and time is running out on the 84-year-old socialist
warrior, who honeymooned in Russia before former President Ronald Reagan --
with assists from imprisoned Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Pope
John Paul II -- turned the Soviet paradise into a realist rubble.
In February 2025, People magazine provided a list of the nation’s
oldest U.S. Senators:
Chuck Grassley (R-IA) - age 91
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) - age 83
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) - age 83
Jim Risch (R-ID) - age 81
Angus King (I-ME) - age 80
Dick Durbin (D-IL) - age 80
Richard
Blumenthal (D-CT) - age 79
Ed Markey (D-MA) - age 78
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) - age 78
Peter Welch (D-VT) - age 77
Connecticut’s youthful voters may or may not be distressed to
discover Blumenthal among those listed. Sanders, a millionaire like Blumenthal,
gave some indication awhile back that he might retire after reading – one can
only hope – Hilaire Belloc ‘s poem “Advice to the rich.”
Get to know
something about the internal combustion engine
And
remember: soon you will die
Final justice is the Lord’s.
The
Pretense of Representation
There are throughout the United States three forms of
governance: federal, state and municipal, each very different from the other
because the constituencies are different. Municipal politicians, state
officials and federal officials represent different jurisdictions. The three
governments sometimes clash. During the Civil War state and federal
jurisdictions clashed bloodily. There were upwards of 500,000 northern and
southern casualties at Gettysburg alone, a handful more than the American
casualties in Iran. When President Abe Lincoln said at the dedication of the
Soldiers’ National Cemetery, “The world will little note, nor long remember
what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here,” he was half
right. We will not forget his words or their deeds. Remembrance for Americans
is a revolutionary act, a declaration of immutable truth.
During the whole of his abbreviated administration, Lincoln
thought of himself as the constitutionally rightful representative of the whole
nation. The confederate states that had seceded from the union obviously
disagreed.
U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, famous for courting
Connecticut’s tepid media, is also famous for draping himself in a flag of universal representation. In fact, he is
a slick anti-Trump, anti-Republican, neo-progressive partisan. The shooty-shoot
to the U.S. Senate in Connecticut drives ambitious Democrat politicians from
the brashly partisan Attorney General’s office to the U.S. Congress. Both
Attorney General Joe Lieberman and Blumenthal slid effortlessly from the AG’s
office to the U.S. Congress. If possible, Blumenthal the elder would deed his
present position as congressional senator and sub-president to his son Matt, as
yet a somewhat lowly state House of Representatives member. But, of course, the
ambitious Attorney General William Tong may have his mind set on the same
track.
The clash, if ambition causes the two to bump heads, should
prove entertaining.
The 80 year-old redundantly wealthy Dick Blumenthal, draped
for purposes of re-election in neo-progressive beggar’s rags, is approaching
Belloc’s terminus. An occasional neo-progressive, Dick still knows little about
the internal combustion engine, but he may recall Belloc’s final advice –
“Remember, soon you will die,” one hopes after one has made a conscience
clearing confession of faults.
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