Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

“Do I Dare disturb the universe?” – T.S. Elliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Increasingly, the legacy media chooses not to disturb the universe. Disturbances always are politically inadvisable and inconvenient. In Connecticut, as everyone knows, the political universe is controlled by Democrats confabing in formerly smoke-filled back rooms, where the light of publicity rarely shines. It is the age-old mission of the media to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and Democrats in Connecticut rarely have been as comfortable as in the past few years, following the capture of the governor’s office in 2011 by Dannel Malloy, the first Democratic governor since the administration of Governor William O’Neill, who left office in 1991 as deficit clouds were marshalling on the horizon.