4 March—As folks who depend on Hearst Connecticut Media’s paper rags—and even Hearst’s criminally misnamed ctinsider.com website—for timely news reporting won’t read until (possibly) tomorrow, yesterday Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont used his highly touted line-item veto to spike a measly six relatively innocuous sections of a 98-part criminally concocted and misnamed “emergency” omnibus bill that because of that spurious designation last week sped through the greasy Democrat-unbalanced General Assembly without the usual committee review and public hearings. Unbalanced (in all senses) legislatures or all persuasions can get away with all manner of evil.

“Let me be clear at the outset,” Lamont rationalized in his veto message, “my objection is not to the missions of the organizations named in these sections, nor to the goals the legislature seeks to advance. Many of these programs do meaningful work in communities across our state. My objection is to the process.”

Sure. So in that case why didn’t the good governor, who conspicuously burns the candle at both ends while playing both ends against the middle, veto the whole damn bogus emergency-certified Senate Bill 298, titled “An Act Concerning The Reallocation Of Certain State Funds And Various Provisions Relating To Education, Public Safety, General Government, Elections, Intermediate Care Facilities And Warehouse Distribution Centers”? It is an omnibus bill, after all, which means it can be stuffed with virtually anything at all and for any reason.

So it’s politics as usual in Connecticut. And it won’t change, let alone improve, until at least one of the Democrat General Assembly majorities or the (or a) Democrat governor—but preferably not all three at any given time—gets dumped and replaced by a non-Democrat, Republican or otherwise. As long as it’s not Green, Working Families, Democratic Socialist, Communist of America, or other crazy party, to be sure. Libertarian, on the other hand, could be pretty good.

Right. The problem, though, is that Connecticut Republicans, the party least unlikely to take over either house of the General Assembly or the governor’s mansion, isn’t going to take over anything at all in the foreseeable future—simply because the poor Connecticut GOP isn’t up to it. And it goes beyond its spineless refusal to disavow Donald Trump and all he stands for and all the crimes he’s committed as president.

As the sad-sack out-of-power party, Connecticut Republicans are naturally great at criticizing, posturing, and promising. But if the Connecticut GOP were ever to regain any meaningful power, would it make any meaningful difference, let alone improvements?