If you haven’t read Rick Green’s column in the Courant, you should. Highlights below:

In a state devoid of leaders, our governor is showing a populist pulse. We’ll see if this jolt can wake up somnolent�Democrats, who prefer to make every discussion about the budget into a who-will-feed-the-children-and-fly-Life-Star crisis.

Within hours, Rell has morphed from Gov. Gridlock to the savvy moderate Republican she should be but rarely is. The leader the people love to support is finally willing to throw an elbow.

Rell’s striking and welcome flip-flop leaves flat-footed Democrats with the messy job of coming up with $500 million in unpleasant cuts, a brilliant political move. If they fail, they look like the party that can’t govern, which they might still be.

On the rear flank, Rell has repudiated the worn-out rhetoric of Republican legislative leaders Larry Cafero and�John McKinney, who conveniently ignore that government must be a part of the state’s economic revival. The governor, apparently, didn’t find much useful in their recent “No Time for Taxes” hip hop�YouTube video.

A hop hop video by Cafero? Here it is:

Green has a previous post on his blog about the anti-tax peeps:

Surprise for anti-tax folks: CT voters OK w/ taxing rich more

source: Courant, Governor Rell’s 180, A Welcome Change, by Rick Green, August 28, 2009