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Comment by Margaret Mullaney on January 5, 2011 at 8:17pm

Fortunately the republicans are back in the political arena in a strong enough position to make the necessary changes in finanial matters. I think about this curious dilemma of America being in debt for $14 trillion wondering to who and why? It is not something to take lightly e.g. the entire country is in default without a healthy spending vs. income policy.  I am not knowledgable about the economics of business and/or the budgeting of government spending but these issues are important to understand if we are to eliminate any continuous debting e.g. an incease of $1 trillion in the past 7 months. Since corruption is always present where ever there is money or property available and it is easy to imagine that manipulating facts and figures in an online system of banking can be achieved without notice. On a personal level one must watch for personal identity thefts and other such discrepancies in their accounts, so think about large scale corruption scams with trillions of dollars floating away. Last, what would happen to our country and the people if these isues were not brought out into the open for the public to view and be aware that fraudulant activities can and do occur. I do hope this is not taken offensively as it is meant to educate not to accuse!

Comment by For the real change on January 5, 2011 at 7:25pm

I wish the new 112th Congress much blessed LUCK, however, now will come the comprimise to win!  I worry about LOBBYIST!  Many lobbyist are ex congressmen/women and politicians along with deep pocket businesses and unions, foreign investors and their croonies. I don't have a back scratcher long enough or sharp enough to make a difference except for my vote. And how do we know enough cutting is enough where it doesn't affect jobs? I don't want the media to come back and point a finger at the GOP stating "Ah! See there they go with Ear Marks"!    Does the Tea Party have a strong lobby group????  Anyway, Good luck 112th congress and don't reach so deep in your pockets that you'll create a whole in your clothing.  

Comment by Susan Marsala on January 5, 2011 at 4:15pm

I hope the Republican women will lean away from the liberal, nanny state government and vote for the people, this means Snowe and Collins, the 2 that the Dems can always count on to defect from what Conservatives (most of the Americans) want in Washington.   These two women are a disgrace.  Take a page from Michele Bachman...stand up and be strong.

Comment by Rosalie Sabatino on January 5, 2011 at 4:11pm

As an active participant of the Tea Party group, I was struck most by the fact that the good ole boy network was still functioning on the premise that being inclusive was not always welcome.  Infringing on their old way of doing politics was not welcomed and it lost our candidate a real shot at a congressional seat. 

One thing we take out of this last election is that the old way of doing politics is dead.  We followed a very grassroots approach with a town coordinator, volunteers, meet and greets in neighborhoods, people assigned to man the phone bank, people calling neighbors, doing mailings, distributing literature.  We were very successful in our town and won that town. However, the campaign manager had those old fashioned ideas of top down rule and didn't cotton to utilizing everything at our fingertips.  Her rigidity and lack of creativity in the community, cost the election.  So what I say to everyone is we have another big battle in 2011 and it may be only on the state level We need to organize early and stay the course and the party naysayers need to embrace the hard work of all the Tea Party groups because without them, we would not have seen our historic win. 

Americans want to win America back, we believe in the Republic our Founding Fathers gave us.  Lets come together with shared ideas and keep winning all the way to 2012.

Comment by LaDeane Fattore-Bruno on January 5, 2011 at 1:02pm

I hope the Republicans will do what they promised us-cut spending. They will have a battle on their hands, though. Obama and the Democrats are going to demonize the Republican party and paint its leaders as obstructionists, "wack-jobs," etc. because they want an Obama re-election in '12 and they don't want to lose their power, especially among the hard-core left. Old party Republicans are the ones I worry about; here is where the Tea party can help by leaning on these guys to do the right thing, not "go along to get along." The Republican Party is in danger of splitting and this would be detrimental to the country because the Democrats with their gang of unstable, crazed liberals will govern this country into oblivion.

Comment by Susan Pisani on January 5, 2011 at 12:39pm

I hope our Republicans in office will do as they have promised when elected.  My guess is it is easy for one to be tarnished with the continual ways things get done in Washington DC.  I pray that they all have strength and endurance to fight and make the changes needed and necessary to make our Nation great again!