It was Napoleon who remarked, when the Pope of the day objected to his take over of Italy, that God was on the side of the big battalions. And when Pope Pius XII criticized Stalin, the atheist totalitarian asked menacingly: How many battalions has the Pope? Numbers in legislatures are determinative. Governor Dannel Malloy, borrowing a page from President Barack Obama, has often been heard to complain during his 17 Town Meetings that he had inherited seemingly insoluble problems from previous governors and legislatures. The bitter medicine he was proposing as a solution to massive budget distortions certainly would not be pleasant, but it was necessary; so, open wide and swallow. Dr. Malloy’s medicine includes tax increased across the board of more than $1.4 billion and cost savings to be rung out of the hides of state union workers in the amount of $2 billion. Those who heard Mr. Malloy at the town meeting swallowed hard but gave some indication, at least in Mr. Malloy’s unders...
go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you;
may your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
--Samuel Adams