By Osden Coolidge

In one of the biggest political upsets in history, the most liberal state in the USA has voted a republican as US Senator for the office formerly held by Ted Kennedy.

My good friends who are democrats, especially those in Massachusetts and even more so, those who worked on the campaign for Martha Coakley-  I feel for you.  I know you are angry, frustrated and hurt.  Drop the anger.  Instead take this opportunity and learn from it.

What can you learn?

1)  Voters are often stupid but at times can be surprisingly smart.  Voters often know when they are being handled and manipulated.  The presumptive nature of the democrats in the race turned off many voters.

2)  Americans are sick of government spending/  the ‘health care’ bill sucks.  Have you actually read these so called “health care” bills?  Do you see where the billions are going?  To drug and insurance companies – the same jerks who are at the root of most of the problem.  Show me a bill that spends $700 billion to build 1000 state of the art $1 billion hospital complexes (20 in each state) and I’ll be impressed —   $700 billion so Merck and Pfizer and Sherring Plough can keep screwing the people?  No thanks.  Better yet, let us keep the $700 billion (or at least not borrow it from China) and have the freedom to do what we want.

3)  Let this be a wake up call to all politicians:  the people are tired of your BS.  Idiots like Rachel Maddow and Olberman have consistently missed the point of the Ron Paul/ Tea Party movement – dismissing it as racist or whatever — they miss the point-  the point is that people are tired of the BS in Washington from BOTH parties.  Go to a tea party rally and you will see as many angry with Bush’s bailout bonuses as Obama’s money-printing.

4)  The government works for us.  This was never “Ted Kennedy’s seat” this Senate seat belongs to the people – Kennedy was a steward of it who, lets face it, got it in the first place because of nepotism and held on to if by shrewd politicing, pork projects and a iron curtain like network — he was a decent man but also repres.ented much of what is wrong with politics today.

Mr. President and the dems — if you want to have ANY hope of getting anything done, please take this as a wake up call.  If the most liberal Senate seat in the USA can go to a republican then ALL elected officials (and the media) is hereby on notice: quit the old games and politics as usual – YOU WORK FOR US.

Written by Osden Coolidge — opinions not necessarily those of the FentonReport