From the Republican meltdown in 2008 to the recent Democratic defeats we have been on a political rollercoaster. What I find interesting and disturbing in the last few years is just how out of touch the countries political factions are. So why am I saying factions and not parties? Isn't this about the Republicans and Democrats? No I don't think so. I think this is about the political powers in the country of which the two political parties are just the outward face of.

After the Republicans lost control of the House and the Senate, a debate went on among the conservative pundits. Many of them said that the problem was that the Republicans were not be conservative enough. What the Republicans needed, according to the pundits was a hard turn to the right. We need to stand up to our conservative principles. So how would a hard turn to the right convince moderate and independent voters to vote for them? After all it was the loss of the middle that caused them to lose control of Congress.

Now look at the Democrats. Since Obama has been in office, they have been pushing their neo-Marxist agenda without regard to what the public was saying.  Never mind all of Obama's campaign speeches and promises about change and bi-partisanship. Once in office the Democrats, drunk with power, have been spending money and pushing more and more government regulations on us. Finally people started to say this is enough. The health care bill was stripped of any semblance of a compromise with Republicans in the first go around and what we got was everything the far left wanted and a bunch of special payoffs to boot.

So the voters got angry and the Scott Brown election is a sign of that anger. Government is not listening to the people. So what do the Progressive Liberal pundits say? Yep, the problem is that the Democrats were not bold enough. They should have rammed through a health care bill no matter what and the people would thank them later. The cry from the left is that the Democrats need to make a hard left turn and push for more government, or regulations, and more spending at the cost of those evil rich people and their evil corporations.

This is not what the majority of Americans want. Most Americans want our government to stop standing by while other countries take more and more jobs from us. Most Americans want cheaper energy prices. We want to invest in renewable energy but at the same time, most Americans want to develop the fuels we have at home. Almost all Americans agree that we need to stop being held hostage to Middle East Oil. 

Most Americans want local, state, and federal government to be better caretakers of our money. Most Americans want less government. Most Americans want special interest groups and lobbyist to be ran out of our centers of government. Most Americans want to bring common sense back into government.

Is anyone listening out there?  Most Americans don't think they are...

-- Thomas Paine 2

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