If senators were still chosen by governors mine would have been demonRATS forever. TN just went GOP since reconstruction last year.
Health law’s heavy impact by Paul Guppy (Taxes) (tax on home sales)
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/mar/28/health-laws-heavy-impact/
While your Senators may have been Dems they would not voted like Dems. When Senators were sent to the Senate by the States they had to listen to the States. No Senator would say that a state had to do something (clean water act, highway funding, health care, etc) if it was going to cost a state money that id did not have. The Senators were supposed to be the states voice at the fed level, now the states have no say. The Federal government says states pay this/pass this or else. We are so sunk.