30 August—Ned Lamont’s latest dingbat stratagem to convince Connecticut voters he’s losing it or lost it already and is more unfit than ever to run our sorry little state with his equally unfit and irresponsible fellow Democrats is his questionable executive order (no. 26-2) that created the Connecticut Career Pathways Commission—allegedly “to modernize and connect education, training, and careers across the state,” whatever that may mean—and his summary appointment of Miguel Cardona to run the absolutely, unquestionably stupid bureaucratic superfluity.

Connecticut’s wayward public education juggernaut has at all levels—pre-school through university—been ludicrously, shamefully mismanaged and allowed to get away with all manner of indefensible, inexcusable insults to the education establishment itself (pupils, students, teachers, many professors, some non-university administrators) as well as taxpayers for decades (at least), so it’s no surprise that Lamont should have called back his screw-up education wunderkind to partake of the lucrative spoils.

You may recall that Lamont had made Miguel Cardona Connecticut’s education commissioner in 2019 and that President Joe Biden, right after being elected in 2020, was good enough to relieve the state of the burden of Cardona’s ineptitude by making him the U.S. Secretary of Education.

You may also recall that Cardona’s most noteworthy achievement and only claim to fame as federal education czar was his possible involvement—which, it must be said, he has strenuously denied (whether you believe it or not)—in the National School Board Association’s comparison of protesting parents to domestic terrorists, set forth in a lengthy September 2021 letter to Biden, begging for DOJ/FBI help, for which the NSBA apologized when it came to light.

So the case against a third term for Ned Lamont certainly gets better and better. But leave it to Connecticut Republicans to help the Democrat governor get re-elected anyway . . .