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If anyone is interested, I have recently became a contributor to a political webisite called politics4nerds.com. It is a new site started by some facebook friends that has posts from all political sides of the isle. Check it out (just posted my thoughts there on the State of the Union)

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Truth Tuesday-The Pendulum Swings...

Wow. Scott Brown (now Senator Scott Brown (R)) won Ted Kennedy's seat in the liberal state of Massachusettes. Unbelievable. It goes to show that the Obama administration has way overplayed their hand. This election was a referendum on its policies and ideaology. This election was about the American people taking their country back. This election was about denying the Democractic party of their continuing elitist arrogance in how they treat the American people. This election was about the ultra-liberal policies like the health care and cap & trade bills that expand govt. dramatically. The people have spoken. The people of liberal Massachusettes have spoken. The pendulum is swinging back--back from the left to the middle, just where it is supposed to be.

I would have given money to have been able to watch MSNBC (we don't get it here, thank goodness because my TV would probably be smashed in, ha ha) during the election--from the looks and sounds of it, they had a hard time chewing on the fact that the people of a liberal state would vote in a Republican. Of course, they have all kinds of excuses...they simply just don't get it. Thought I'd share some of the entertaining video:

http://www.thefoxnation.com/massachusetts-senate-race/2010/01/20/nbc-news-apologizes-not-attacking-brown-harder

http://www.thefoxnation.com/msnbc/2010/01/15/nbc-news-host-possible-dem-loss-bad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB3j9fpTKkk

Just some typical NBC news...obviously very biased, they were full of excuses, hatred and shock over the fact that this turned out how it did. I can't find the video, but in one segment, the "journalist" went from a Haiti segment to the Scott Brown segment by saying "From one crisis to another..." Hmmm...

Media bias will someday be a whole other post. But for now I just want to say Congrats to Senator Scott Brown---please work for the people like you promised.

Truth Tuesday-"The People's Seat"

There is a huge political race going on in Massachusettes right now. It is an election to fill Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat. MA is a democratic (very progressive) state with dems outnumbering Repubs 3 to 1. But there is something amazing going on. The Republican contender is in a dead heat with the Democrat. A dead heat in Massachusettes. Unheard of. If the Republican won, it would end the 60 seat fillibuster in Congress--this is huge, especially with the health care bill coming up for a vote.

Here is a portion of the debate between the 2 from a couple nights ago (just over a minute long). I wanted to use this for Truth Tuesday because it is the truth. The seats of Congress belong to the American people, not the individuals filling them. They are OUR representatives. This message has been lost for a long time. This is what the tea party movement is all about. It is about the American people not being represented. The Govt is supposed to be 'Of the People, For the People and By the People'. This is not how it is right now and I think some of our leaders are finally starting to get the message. The tide is turning.

http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=2761