We are lax in our criticism of them. Sure, we may put it on our blogs, but I bet there are fewer letters written today than before.

Also, the media has always been a way for the public to let the politicians know how we felt about them. Well, we know which way the media leans. The Republican party has given up paying too close to opinion out of the MSM. Problem is, the folks they do listen to in the media pander to the Republican leadership like dogs at their heels. It’s silly, really.

These commentators were great in the heyday of Clinton. It gave us focus and polarized a new conservative base. However, that same polarization has created an environment where if you criticize the actions of your Republican officials, you must be slipping left. Or, you’ve lost some conservative ideal. Well, I’ve got news for them … we’re not the ones who are slipping.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.