I have been impressed in the past more by Connecticut's Democrats in Washington, as if they've risen to the challenge.īut then Connecticut's Washington delegation turned up in New London last week to paint lipstick on Gov.
The problem, especially in Connecticut, is that leaves you with a motley crew of Democrats, who have long dominated the government and come to do whatever they please, granting all kinds of lucrative goodies, jobs, lavish contracts, even bloated lifetime pensions, to cronies. Republicans have created the party of voter suppression, the party of lies about voter fraud, the party that shields insurrectionists, the party that harbors white supremacists and the party that won't stand up to the gun lobby, talking about "hardening" our schools rather than stopping the madness of a shoot-em-up gun culture like none other in the world. The Republican-created Supreme Court of religious zealots also is pushing all these important matters down to the level of state legislatures and governors, making local races more important than ever before. This year has brought the final breaking point for me with Republicans, not that I voted for many of them before now.īut, really, anyone who still puts an R after their name, affiliated with the party that is about to succeed in turning back the clock on abortion rights, while putting at serious risk a whole range of other freedoms many Americans have come to take for granted as settled law - mixed race marriage, gay marriage, contraception - has no chance of getting my vote.