If ever a picture could be used to encapsulate how far Dick Blumenthal mind has gone to seed, then we point to the picture offered by our good friends at MyLeftNutmeg blog site. There he was Friday, resplendent in his Van Heusen shirt, slicked back hair and car salesman’s smile, holding up an overblown sized copy of a bill that would give away the health care store to the public employee’s unions and sink our state deeper into economic ruin.

The Connecticut Healthcare Partnership, the brain-child of House Majority Leader and union Myna bird, Chris Donovan, D-Meriden, seeks to lure thousands of municipal employees and those of non-profit institutions into the state health plan, hoping that it will reverse hundreds of years of free market economic theory and reduce costs.

Blumenthal’s appearance before the camera, aside from keeping with his pyschotic need to be photographed somewhere within the borders each day, was odd given his analysis of the bill which concluded two insurance pools could be created from this bill, rather than relying on the one state account.

This interpretation is not shared by anyone who has been in support or against the bill. But that is how Dick operates. Sometimes he just makes it up so he can get in the story.

Everyone knows this bill is a sop to 1199, AFSME and the other puppeteer’s at the AFL-CIO and would be a disaster for the state of Connecticut. No sane person can argue that by allowing a negotiated health care plan to be invaded by other applicants will reduce costs simple because there are more people to cover. What this bill does do is create a better health care package for those who get in and have the cost paid for by the taxpayers.

Only the Republicans, like House Republican Leader Larry Cafero, R-Norwalk and Senate Leader John McKinney, R-Southport, pointed out this latter fact. No one is asking any of these state employees to open the contract and negotiate a better deal for the taxpayers by requiring the state employees to pay more for their prescriptions for incrementally higher deductible.

No, Donovan and Dick Blumenthal and the rest of the Democratic Entitlement Caucus think they can convince the public that their form of socialist dogma works. It never has.  Hopefully, Gov. Rell will use a bucket of red paint to veto the oversized versiion Blumenthal presented to her in such a tacky manner Friday.