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Ladies and Gentlemen,

I hope that the carnage experienced last night leaves a very bitter taste in your mouths and that you awaken this morning wiser than when you went to bed. The American people have spoken and they have chosen a new direction not because the Democrats offer anything better but because you failed to offer leadership. People crave leadership and if they do not get it they will latch on to the first person or group they think offers it. Germans craved leadership so badly they elected Hitler to lead them because there was no one who stood up to provide an alternative. I hope you also realize that the power of incumbency is diminished and that people will vote to replace you if you do not demonstrate that you can lead. Americans saw that Democrats offered no leadership in 1994 and turned to you for guidance and leadership. You started strong and then fell into the trap of complacency and greed. Yesterday, Americans doubted your ability to lead and turned to others. It should be humbling to know your leadership was so ineffective that you were beaten by people who had no platform. When a party that terrorists endorse wins, you have lost your grip on leadership.

It is not the mark of a leader to listen to lobbyists and ignore the people who vote for you and who you are supposed to represent. A lobbyist only gets one vote and it might not even be in your state but the people that you are supposed to lead have tens of thousands of votes and they will use them in their best interests. If you are not in their best interests you will not get that vote. It is a crime to be lured by the money of lobbyists who have you on speed dial while those who expect better are ignored. I have had the same Congressman for nearly 20 years and the first time I received anything from him was a week ago when he checked, “as he likes to do from time to time” to see how things were. It was nice of him to send me that form letter. I received a survey from the Republicans asking me what they could do to make things better but I only received it when the tide was beginning to rise against them. All the years that things were good I was taken for granted.

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