The Republican-American (Waterbury) took a big swipe at one-term Congressman Chris Murphy in today’s paper:

Having been largely invisible on crime issues since the triple homicide in his “hometown” of Cheshire last July, Rep. Christopher Murphy, D-5th District, figured he’d better do something after the deadly home invasion March 28 in New Britain. His idea? Make home invasion a federal crime. Now his former colleagues in the legislature have been vicious and dismissive in criticizing Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Republicans for renewing their call for tougher laws to deal with persistent felons — “shameless pandering!” bellowed mushy-on-crime Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford. Curiously, they have not had much to say about Rep. Murphy’s grandstanding.

Rep. Murphy’s law is dead on arrival. Even if a home invader buys his weapon in another state, the Supreme Court has forbidden Congress from writing criminal laws based, as he proposes, on the Interstate Commerce Clause. Rep. Murphy simply is exploiting tragedy to seem tough on crime in an election year when being tough on crime is back in vogue. He would have nothing to fear if he wasn’t just another criminal-coddling liberal.

It’s at times like this that you really don’t have to add anything more to what has already been said.