Dick's Exploding Cigar

Imagine if Blumenthal had his way during WWII?

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT,  continues to belittle the office he has sought for a lifetime. With western civilization twirling down the toilet, our junior senator continues his half-assed, hypocritical attack on the easiest of targets - the tobacco industry.

The Associated Press took the bait when it noted that Blumenthal, joined by the brain-dead U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, are asking the sponsors of the Orange Bowl to break its three-year contract with Camacho Cigars. The cigar company will be providing their product in private, repeat, private smoking areas at the stadium.

Let us forget for a moment that the U.S. Constitution protects the sovereignty of contracts, or the wrapper used in these cigars is grown in Connecticut, (good catch Tom Dudchik) and that no one will be blowing cigar smoke into the faces of infants or little old ladies with oxygen tanks during the three hours of gridiron action.

It is more important to review the House of Cards that Blumenthal has quietly built when dealing with the evil Tobacco Industry and why this current move is so ludicrous and typical of this horrible excuse for an elected official.

Back in those halcyon days on the 1990's, when Dick watched the Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore do a majority of the successful legal work against the industry,  he handed out millions of dollars in legal fees to his former law partner - David Golub and another firm with ties to Golub for the biggest payday in trial lawyer history.

"There will be no diving for this cigar."

When the dust had settled, Dick Blumenthal watched the Democrats in the Connecticut Legislature spend  or borrow against the hundreds of millions of dollars in tobacco settlement money to grow the state bureaucracy.  These dollars were in essence, free money and those funds papered over shortfalls, built new programs and put taxpayers on the hook to sustain those expenditures when the tobacco inheritance dried up.

But to save some face, these liberal Democrats who often made pronouncements about "helping the kids" offered nickels and dimes for anti-smoking programs to stop kids from lighting up.

And how did that work out? Smoking by underage children is at a record high in Connecticut. Blumenthal held press conferences of course about it, decrying the lack of resolve and action by Democrats, but everyone got the joke.