A Few Rays Of Hope

Unfortunately, many of the posts to these blogs are not optimistic. By constantly identifying waste, fraud, corruption, and inefficiencies that the political class perpetrates on American and its citizens, it does get a little depressing. However, in our short post today, lets look at a few hopeful signs for restoring sanity and freedom to the country and its citizens.



Lets start with a special election that will be held on Tuesday in Massachusetts for the Senate seat that was occupied by Ted Kennedy, a Democrat. Kennedy had held that Massachusetts Senate seat for the Democrats for decades. Massachusetts had gone for a Democrat for President all but once in the past sixty years or so. Massachusetts is one of the most politically liberal states in the union and votes heavily Democrat. Massachusetts has had a universal health care plan (one that is failing miserably) very similar to the one that the Obama administration and Democratic Congressman are pushing and crafting behind closed doors. However, despite all of the Democratic Party history, a Republican is on the verge to taking the seat out of the Democrat's column and moving over to the Republicans. The Democrats are so desperate that Obama actually campaigned there yesterday, an event that would have been unnecessary and downright absurd several weeks ago. It looks like that even in heavily democratic Massachusetts, Americans are starting to realize that the current political class, regardless of party, needs to be changed out and the status quo upset. And Democrats in control in Massachusetts cannot get any more status quo.



As a second ray of hope, I refer to a short article in the January 15, 2010 issue of The Week Magazine. The article consists of a quote from David Brooks who writes for the New York Times. A synopsis of Mr. Brooks' quotes include the following:

• According to a recent NBC New/Wall Street Journal poll, 41 percent of Americans have a positive view of the Tea Party movement. This makes it more popular than either major party.


• The Tea Party movement is against big government, big media, big business, and affluent professionals that appear to be conspiring to create "a self serving oligarchy - with bloated government, unsustainable deficits, high taxes, and intrusive regulation."


• A year ago, Obama's supporters had the passion, now the tea Party Brigades have all the intensity.

The Tea Party movement has gone from a rag tag, unknown entity that was ridiculed and mocked by the mainstream media and the political class as a bunch of right wing nuts, to a viable political force in less than a few years. A very, very good sign of hope that America is awakening.

Finally, we have reported favorable trends from a number of recent opinion polls, both in this blog and in "Love My Country, Loathe My Government." In one poll, respondents by a wide majority polled that they would vote to dump the entire Congress rather than keep it intact if they could. All valid polls that track Congressional approval ratings usually have the positive respondents numbering less than 30% and the negative respondents numbering over 60%. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that only 22% approve of what Congress is doing while 68% disapprove and the latest CNN/Opinion Research poll has the approval rating at only 22% and disapproval rating at a whopping 77%. In both polls, by a margin of more than 3-to-1, Americans are waking up to the incompetence, waste, and insanity that the political class is all about. Hopefully, this trend will continue and we can get to a point where politicians do what is right for the nation and its citizens and not what is right for their individual political careers, two often opposing actions.

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