It's Nothing New

As we draw closer to election day next Tuesday, one of the debates I'm enjoying is listening to the leftist media continue to try to understand the Tea Party and voter frustration. They still can't figure it out. Why are voters so upset? How has the Tea Party been able to have such an influence?

The Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann types still can't believe the Tea Party has had the staying power they've had. They still act as if Americans are going to wake up next Tuesday, change their minds and vote to keep the likes of Harry Reid and Russ Feingold in office. It ain't happening fellas.

Think back to the summer of '09. That was the summer of the town hall meetings. All the senators and congressmen went home to their districts and tried to explain how important it was that we all support Obama's health care plan. That of course is the plan that had to be passed first so we could then see what was in it.

At meeting after meeting, voters confronted their representatives. In district after district, state after state voters told their congressmen how angry they were. While we all worried about the economy and the lack of jobs, people like Claire McCaskill and Harry Reid kept talking about "monumental" and "historic" health care reform. They weren't listening to the people that put them in office.

Over most of the next year, the Rachel Maddow's and Keith Olbermann's of the world just laughed. Oh look at those funny, angry middle class people showing up in three cornered hats acting like they were going to affect their own change. They made disparaging remarks about the Tea Party and it's members. They acted like this wave of outrage would disappear in the next news cycle. It didn't. The outrage is still here and it's very real and next Tuesday the results will be on display for the entire nation to see.

There is not a single incumbent Democrat campaigning on their previous support of Obamacare. They're running from it. Now they're promising to fix it and change it if only they can return to office. All of a sudden they started paying attention to the voters. Too bad for them they didn't listen sooner. Never mind the fact they ignored these voices in 2009.

Unless the leftist media wants to look even more insignificant than they are, maybe they'll start paying attention too. Start listening to the outrage from voters because those voters are in the process of making their own monumental and historic statement. That statement will be made loud and clear in five days.