It might be a good idea to stay away from the dog for a little while. Now that it’s caught the car, there’s likely to be a lot of drooling, a lot of haughty posturing, a lot of snarling and snapping, and a lot of blithering that, like listening to Oprah, is likely to turn your brain to oatmeal.

In case you’re not sure why I’m writing this, here’s Exhibit A: “CT Dems preview agenda after blue wave swamps U.S. Congress”:

Democrats will need to take a two-pronged approach when they return to the majority. The party will have the delicate balance of pushing back on President Donald Trump through oversight efforts and tackling policies in the hopes of directly addressing voter concerns that led to their electoral success.

I’d recommend a six-pronged approach:

1. Stop promising the impossible.
2. Stop spending money.
3. Obey the law.
4. Keep the borders closed.
5. Spend more time in reality.
6. More generally, get a grip of your knickers.

Nobody asked me. So, those six things are more like a wish list. But we’ve just handed the keys to the bulldozer to a baby, kids. And the house won’t fare well.

In the brave new world of politics, these are the top ten tenets:

1. What I feel is much more important than what I know.
2. Emotions are good.
3. Thinking is bad
4. Discipline is hard.
5. I vote for people I like because I like them.
6. I don’t vote for people I don’t like even if I can’t substantiate my reasons for not liking them.
7. I’ll take to heart every promise that serves my interests.
8. My interests are more important than national unity.
9. I support democracy as long as things are going my way.
10. I wouldn’t know the difference between a democracy and a federal constitutional republic if it bit me.

Pardon me for mixing my animal metaphors. But since the dog caught the car, the chickens are already coming home to roost. I intend no pun whatsoever when I say this is rich and present Exhibit B: “Blue wave in CT legislature may test Lamont on taxing the rich”. And because Democrats and the people who vote for them have senses of neither irony nor common sense, you can be sure they don’t have the slightest awareness of the absurdity of the position they’ve put themselves in. Check this out:

State legislators have talked about taxing Connecticut’s wealthy to finance relief for the poor and middle class, but for most of the past eight years, it’s only been talk. Because doing otherwise meant crossing one of Gov. Ned Lamont’s deepest lines in the political sand … the governor repeatedly insists Connecticut needs “more taxpayers, not more taxes” … when asked Wednesday what mandate he believes voters delivered, Lamont said people like the status quo, “how we’re managing through these very complicated times.”

What might cause Uncle Ned to bust out his tap shoes at a time like this? Two things:

1. Garden-variety cronyism. There’s no way he can sell out his Fairfield County pals without being tarred, feathered, and likely impeached.
2. His own net wealth. It’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 million, if you don’t count his wife’s ballpark $650 million.

If you think Uncle Ned is going to let himself be one of the rich who gets taxed, you probably were gullible enough to vote for him … again.

Here’s my favorite part of the article.

It’s unclear whether Lamont will keep bending budget rules next year.

Unclear?! The dude’s been bending budget rules like a pretzel for eight years, and we wonder if he’ll keep doing it?

Over the last eight years, Uncle Ned has proven himself to be a surprisingly accomplished song and dance man. But now that the dog has caught the car, he’ll have to be a contortionist to keep getting away with his blatant duplicity.

Mark O’Brien lives in Middletown.