Unless you reside in a cave, you know that as of last night for the first time since 1972 a Republican, Scott Brown, has been elected to a senate seat in uber-liberal Massachusetts...not just any senate seat...the seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy. I'm not sure everyone gets how monumental this event is, and how loudly it screams at our other politicians. People are just plain sick of being ignored by their elected officials...which has evolved from being ignored by some to being treated with utter disdain by others.
While I've always disagreed wholeheartedly with the Obama administration's policies from the get-go, he did make some pretty smart promises. He promised transparency, open debate, to reach across the aisle to shrink the divide between parties, and most importantly - to listen to the people. Even though I disagree with his party's policies, I was hopeful that he would do what he promised. Instead we've seen the practice of bullying and childish ridiculing of anyone who doesn't float along with extreme leftist policies, and a continuation of everything he promised to stop.
We've plunged deeper into debt than we've ever been, seen constant closed-door meetings with special interest groups, continued corruption, and been told we're getting health care reform whether we want it or not because we're not smart enough to decide for ourselves, as if we lived in western Europe. Everything proposed so far has been bigger government that dictates to us, more control, loss of personal rights, and a huge increase in taxes and entitlement programs. The increasing downward spiral reminds me of a massive toilet bowl that started flushing years ago.
While I'm no longer a Republican, I do believe that this new senator gets it. I'm waiting for others to get it, Democrats as well as Republicans, and live in a country where WE THE PEOPLE are listened to by our elected representatives as designed by the founders. People are waking up - no longer content to let the government do what it does, and no longer content to say, "Nothing I can do about it."
I remain cautiously optimistic.
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