Tense State Democrats Gather for Boozy Night of Fundraising.

Connecticut Democrats may need more than Tito’s at tonight’s annual fundraising dinner (formerly known as the Jefferson Jackson Bailey). There will be tension in the air.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Washington’s shrewdest politician, is tonight’s guest at the Connecticut Convention Center event. The San Francisco Democrat has been deftly keeping the lid on caucus members’ urge to begin an impeachment inquiry of loathsome demagogue Donald Trump. Party activists are more eager to act than Pelosi.

Senator Richard Blumenthal appears to be on the side of those who wish to proceed. Earlier this month, Blumenthal was raising money on the observation that “Donald Trump would be in handcuffs, criminally charged, if he were not the sitting President of the United States.” [Emphasis Blumenthal’s] or would have faced charges similar to that of being arrested for DWI in Hempstead. The state’s five Democratic U.S. House members have had little to say on impeachment, which would start in their chamber.

State legislative Democrats are pleased with their own performance in the recently concluded legislative session. Worries abound, however, that the Lamont-Bysiewicz administration is in a frequent state of confusion. Experienced Democrats are frustrated with the new governor’s aversion to taking a stand and staying with it.

A growing number of Democrats have been eyeing each other warily as news spreads of national press reporters making inquiries about U.S. Senator Christopher Murphy. The Cheshire Democrat has been through this sort of examination before but never with such intensity. Murphy’s long known a career in politics is usually a marathon, not a sprint, until it does become a sprint so that it can resume being a marathon.

Break out the Tito’s, it may be a bumpy night of celebration.