Malloy simulates action, GOP simulates opposition

Governor Malloy’s strategy for re-election seems to be to pretend that Connecticut’s economy is improving so much that he can plaster the state with spending proposals and tax rebates — the supposedly popular things that were done by his predecessors in previous election years and brought state government to the desperate financial condition they bequeathed him.

But Connecticut’s mood is so sour because economic recovery here is only pretense, and there may be some political risk in telling people who are struggling that they are really doing well.