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I just dropped my Senator a little note.

Senator,
Our country stands at the precipice. The mild tyranny of the schoolmaster that Torqueville so eloquently described in Democracy in America is blossoming. The demoralization of America that Yuri Bezmenov warned of is bearing evil fruits.

By trying to play nicely with Democrats the Republican Party has spoiled the faith that was placed in it when the reigns of congress were given into its hands in 1994. Your distinguished colleagues spent like the treasury was overflowing, not deeply in debt. And you have paid the price. Rather than return to your conservative roots your party has continued reach across the aisle to receive your share of the graft while the Democrats drive us hard towards the end of capitalism. This is the same capitalism that has freed millions, enriched billions and advanced every area of human endeavor at a rate unmatched in history.

The conservatives in America are angry. And every time we are called a mob or un-American for voicing dissent we get angrier. The last senatorial election in Georgia should have been a wake up call. We were unhappy with Senator Chambliss for his love of pork and beltway politics. He needed a runoff to retain his seat in one of the most conservative states in this great country. I hoped you were different. You were a reliable conservative vote. But it appears that you have ‘gone native’. Your desire to befriend the media and get your picture taken with Senator Kennedy has separated you from those who sent you to office.

There are few conservative voices in politics standing up to the extreme socialist agenda being forced upon us by a President that ran as a ‘Uniter’ then in his first meeting with Republican leaders declared “I won.” We are looking for leadership. We are looking for conservatives in the public eye that can fight against this coming tyranny. Governor Palin is one of those leaders. No one has been more reviled, smeared, and dismissed than she has. And yet she can probably draw a larger crowd in Quitman County than you can in Cobb County any day of the week. Senator Chambliss credits her support with saving his seat.

And you called her statement about death panels ‘nuts.’ Really? Doesn’t that accurately describe a government panel that decides who gets treatment and who doesn’t? Governor Palin did not mention euthanasia. You let a reporter lead you by the nose into a straw man argument. And you gave them bonus material. You dismissed one of the only public leaders that inspires conservatives.

Maybe you don’t want conservatives inspired. Maybe your life would be easier if we would be quiet and let the oh-so-wise ‘public servants’ in Washington make the decisions. But we are tired, Senator. We are tired of lawyerly wording and nuanced statements. We are tired of thousand page bills with pork laden amendments passed in the middle of the night. We are tired of being told to vote for moderates so we can expand our tent. We are tired of Washington. And you are becoming another bit actor on that most expensive burlesque stage.

I am not a member of the most exclusive club of 100 in the world. No one is calling me for interviews or asking me to be on Sunday morning talk shows. Lobbyists aren’t fawning over me to win my support. I don’t even have a staff to issue statements and read my bills for me.

But I have the power of my vote. Remember who you work for. We remember who works for us. And the layoffs are coming.