{"id":1196,"date":"2010-01-19T21:21:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2010-01-19T21:21:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T04:21:16","slug":"verbum-sapienti-satis-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=1196","title":{"rendered":"“Verbum Sapienti Satis Est”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hope that Jon Tester is watching the election returns tonight.<\/p>\n

Senator, if you aren’t listening to what your constituents are telling you, please understand: THEY WILL FIRE YOUR SAME SELF!!! If you continue to support the Party over the People, if you take more direction from Obama than you do from Opheim, if you believe what Barack, Harry, and Nancy are telling you over what is coming from Billings, Havre, and Noxon then you should be sent back to the farm in 2012. You have a Constitutional obligation to represent US – the citizens of Montana. You are not a stupid person. There is no way that you can look at the man in mirror and honestly admit that the abomination drafted in the most partisan way imaginable, behind closed doors, in the darkest hours of the night is a good bill. You owe it to the people of Montana to go in to work tomorrow morning and begin working for us. <\/p>\n

Today’s election should be a wake-up call for the United States Congress. Martha Coakley offered some very wise advice tonight when she said she respected the people’s voice – even if she didn’t agree with it. Beginning tomorrow morning, the people of this country are going to expect a whole new level of respect from our elected officials. We have a right to disagree with you – and to let you know our opinions. You do not have the right to ignore our concerns and belittle us with derogatory labels. We are your employers. You cannot ignore our concerns in some misguided attempt to push through an agenda that was never communicated to the voters and clearly does not have our support. You cannot pretend that a 2,000 page bill that you haven’t even read, let alone studied and understood, that has never been openly debated, that has required all sorts of bribes and back room deals in order to pass – is something that Montanans – or Americans – deserve. <\/p>\n

Start over. Go talk to the junior senator from Massachusetts. He’s been listening – carefully. He gets it.<\/p>\n

Just in case you’ve forgotten your Latin from high school, let me reprieve a picture I posted a while back – it translates the message pretty well:<\/p>\n

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