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A few years back, perhaps during GWB’s first administration, the State of Tennessee was attempting to pass an income tax because their experiment with state-wide universal healthcare (TennCare) was bankrupting the state. I don't recall all the facts but if memory serves, the citizens of Tennessee, having grown tired of being ignored, did a march on the capital and somewhat incarcerated their representatives in their chambers.
We have seen successful Tea Party gatherings that mustered over a million or more attendees. Perhaps it is time to do a gathering at the Capitol and subject all the members venturing outside to millions of angry voices. It could be a reverse townhall meeting.
Regardless of the calm the likes of Michael Medved or Bill Bennett hope to instill or the sheer naivety they exhibit, the fact is actions like this by our representatives suggest a coup has taken place and they have silently established themselves as collectively, Dictators-for-Life. If you have to ask “take our country back from whom”, you need look no further than actions like these.

They called the ‘storm troopers’ on us. Here’s the updates...this is NOT the first round of cut and gut we’ve had to do.

TennCare cuts threaten Nashville General hospital | tennessean.com
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100204/NEWS0204/2040350/TennCare-cuts-threaten-Nashville-General-hospital
TennCare Cuts Under Way Now
http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=47622
Call it coincidence or bad timing, but many physicians in Tennessee began taking a 14 percent cut for seeing TennCare patients on the same day Gov. Phil Bredesen announced deep cuts in health care spending.
TennCare Cuts May Close Some Hospitals
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/020710-tenncare-cuts-may-close-some-hospitals
TennCare Cuts May Close Some Hospitals
Proposed TennCare funding cuts would close The Med, hospital officials say
By Toby Sells
Published Friday, January 29, 2010
http://m.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jan/29/med-cuts-would-kill-us/