The Title of Liberty

Today Scott Brown (R) from Massachusetts won the special election for the seat held by the late Ted Kennedy. The irony of this is just too sweet - when Mitt Romney was governor the Democratic legislature changed the law that had been in effect for years that had the governor select a person to fill the seat if a representative or senator were unable to finish their term. They had been concerned that John Kerry might be elected President of the U.S. and then Romney would select a Republican. Well, Kerry didn't win and everything was just fine. But, Ted Kennedy died and then they were left with a Democratic governor who could have appointed another Democrat to the seat, except for that darn law they had passed during Romney's term. So, the governor appointed an interim senator and called a special election. The election was expected to be a slam dunk - but tonight the unthinkable happened - a Republican won. If they had just not tried to game the system everything would have been just they way they wanted - it is truly poetic justice!

Now, the fall-out starts. Until this happened the Democrats held a 60 vote super majority that enabled them to do whatever they wanted without Republican input or support. That ended tonight. The reverberations are sounding in every clime. Earlier Virginia had voted in a Republican and then New Jersey voted in a Republican governor (that was way not expected and he was sworn in today too), and now this.

The Democrats have repeatedly underestimated the anger and rage of events of the past few years. In history I believe that Pres. George W. Bush will be noted as a great president - vindicated by history and not the progressive loons that fill our airways and history books today. But there were things that I was so frustrated over and I really had had it with the Republicans on Capital Hill as well. During the last election the anger of Republicans showed as we were forced to vote for McCain. He may be an honorable man - but he is a moderate that would not stand against the Democratic ways - always trying to be conciliatory and compromising...you don't compromise on principles!!!! He was representative of those who seemed to deal in cronyism...and then there were those who were immoral, corrupt, and who had forgotten whose money they were spending. I have often said I voted AGAINST Obama and FOR Palin.

Well - I think much of the country felt very much as I have and Obama won. People who had not paid close attention to Obama's words or who didn't understand the significance or the meaning of those words were happy to vote for the 1st black president, someone who spoke well gave the appearance of being so smart, and someone who offered "change." I think the Democrats and pundits misunderstood though what the people wanted...they thought that they had been given a mandate to implement all of their programs and that the people wanted the government to take care of them. In reality, the people want transparency, limited government, a return to our founding principles, freedom, less bureaucracy, honesty, integrity....instead we got government bailouts of banks, insurance companies, housing (especially Fannie and Freddie), take overs of Ford and GM, class warfare that rivals anything seen by communists and socialists, lies, special favors, spending masquerading as "stimulus" that will bankrupt us AFTER sky-high inflation hits, sweetheart deals, taxes on everything (and I mean everything!), socialized medicine, and the list goes on and on....and arrogance that is just unreal. People who have opposed these actions and processes have been called every name in the book, even put on the terrorist watch list!

Last summer people rose up and came out in record numbers to express their outrage. Grandmas, grandpas, moms, dads, kids. We joined together and called our efforts a "Tea Party Movement." People who had never really been interested in politics or politically active wrote their government officials, attended town hall meetings, even protested in Washington, D.C. All the while the Democrats have been telling themselves that the rage is "manufactured" while they continued to ram health care, cap and trade, and immigration down our throats. Tomorrow they will continue to deny that these last three elections are a referendum on where we feel the country is going. They do so at their peril.

The anger is real. Our elected officials have just ignored everything that we "the people" have been saying. If they had been doing it on principle I could even understand that...but this appears nothing more than a power and money grab. And perhaps more than anger is a very real fear that our Constitution is being ripped to shreds and that America will be lost.

Tonight many of the pundits are arguing that the Democrats will have to move to the center. But I don't think they will (some will who's hearts weren't really in this) but Obama and his crowd are going to move even harder and faster to ram this through. I think they will use whatever means they can to make it happen. And sadly, I believe that this is one of the "secret Combinations" that President Benson warned us about that seeks to destroy us. I believe it is evil. Sadly, I believe that there are many who want to give the benefit of the doubt, who can't really see the consequences of what is happening. Perhaps that is what President Benson meant when he urged us to make popular that which is good and unpopular that which is not good.

I know we have been a choice nation - blessed above all others. But I fear our wickedness leaves us especially vulnerable. Our true hope is the gospel. We need an Alma, a Captain Moroni, an Ammon. Better yet - we need to be them, rather than sitting around and waiting for them to appear. We need to do our part in these winding up scenes. What do the scriptures say? "It becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor." I need to be a better missionary. I am shy, reluctant, seemingly unable to open my mouth...but there is so much at stake...so here goes.