Can Republicans take back the Senate in November? It is in the air!

  It is in the air. You can’t see it and you can’t smell it, but you certainly can feel it and if you are listening you can hear it. The questions are; are they listening? Do they hear it or are they deaf to the noise that started softly but has grown much louder over the last few months? Do they feel it?

  They had better feel it and they had better hear it and if they do, they would be wise not to ignore it. If they ignore it, they will ignore it at their own peril. Yes, there is something in the air and that something is the wind of change that appears to be blowing. People are engaged in a way that they haven’t been in many years; they see what this administration has tried to do and they are not happy. The seeds of discontent have been sown and the flower that blooms will be the repercussions that will be felt next November if they do not listen to us.

  We have tried to make our voices heard, we held tea parties over the Summer, but we were ignored. We attended the Town Hall meetings and voiced our displeasure, but we were marginalized. Yes, you can hear it, but you have to listen and they are not listening. So now it is time to make them hear us in the only language they understand– at the polls.

  Something that was unthinkable just a few short months is not so unthinkable anymore. Because the administration has refused to listen to the will of the people there is a growing chance that the Republican party can regain control of the Senate. This is still a longshot– Republicans would have to win all of the seats they currently have that are up for re-election while also winning ten seats now held by Democrats. But the recent elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts has invigorated the Republicans, conservatives, and Independents. They have been breathed new life and the possibility of regaining control of the Senate, while unlikely, is not unattainable any more.

  Many Democrats who were once thought unbeatable are now in tough fights for re-election. Russ Feingold is trailing a Republican who hasn’t even made his candidacy official, and other Republicans either have leads or are within striking distance of the Democrats.

  While it would still be considered a  longshot for the Republicans to take back the Senate, there is still a long time to go before the election and as of right now it appears that Barack Obama does not feel what is in the air. He does not hear what is in the air, his stubbornness on healthcare reform and cap and trade even after the election of Scott Brown is proof that Obama doesn’t feel what is happening in America all around him.

  If he continues down this path in defiance of the message that the people are trying to send him, the midterm elections could spell a real disaster for him. The House and the Senate could fall and while Barack Obama may be surprised, the American people who tried to warn him will not be surprised.

  We have done everything that we could to try to warn him, but he has not listened, therefore he has not heard. He will hear soon because  it is in the air, and I can feel it and I can hear it. Come November we may even be able to smell it, and it will smell like….. VICTORY!