The day after the Massachusetts megaphone shouted loud and clear, "We don't want your big government pork-barrel ways!!!" The party of power signaled their shopping spree wasn't over.

Beyond Brown the Second Round

By Dr. Robert R. Owens
Monday, January 25, 2010

In the recent Massachusetts election Republican Scott Brown confounded the purveyors of conventional wisdom and caused a magnitude 10 earthquake in the political world by liberating the Kennedy Senate Fiefdom from the grip of the Democrat machine. To the 24 hour talking-heads this changes everything since the Democrats can no longer cut-off debate in the Senate though they can still stifle debate in the House and hold the Executive Department in their iron fist. But did the Party of Power really experience anything besides a bump in the road?

In President Obama’s estimation, “we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people.â€