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lickspittle, coward, and liar.

Blumenthal “excited and proud” to celebrate 102-year anniversary of the Communist Party USA

The Connecticut People’s World Committee presented its annual Amistad Awards on Saturday to mark the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party USA, with awards being presented to Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, Pastor Rodney Wade of Waterbury and SEIU activist Azucena Santiago.

"We invite you to join the Communist Party in this epic time as we make good trouble to uproot systemic racism, retool the war economy, tax the rich, address climate change, secure voting rights and create a new socialist system that puts people, peace and planet before profits," emcee Ben McManus told the audience during the event.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, joined the program as a surprise guest to offer his congratulations and present the award winners with certificates of special recognition from the United States Senate. “I am really excited and honored to be with you today and share in this remarkable occasion,” Blumenthal said.

If Blumenthal weren’t a proven liar and coward (no, he didn’t serve in Vietnam with his fellow Marines, as he claimed; he stayed safely at home and ran the Corp’s Washington D.C. “Toys for Tots” campaign each Christmas, just as a for instance) and a man of no principle, I’d be offended by this. For someone who inherited millions from his Wall Street financier father, and married into the billion-dollar Malkin real estate fortune to feel a tingle down his leg over the celebration of a dictatorial system that has seen over 100 million victims slaughter in its name and caused the impoverishment of billions is a bit rich.

But, since Blumenthal isn’t a man of principle, we can trust that, like everything else he says and does, he doesn’t believe it, so we can just shrug this off as the Old Dick spouting off, and ignore it.

But it’d be nice to see this man denied re-election next year. It won’t happen — CT voters get what they deserve — but it’d be nice.