The 110th - America returns

The congressional delegation representing both the Left and Right banks of the Ohio River at Milepost 606 changes today. Thankfully so. The voters of Kentucky's 3rd and Indiana's 9th congressional districts threw out their Republican representatives in November, 2006.

John Yarmuth, an avowed liberal, millionaire, and of the Jewish faith, was elected in Louisville, defeating five-term Republican Anne Northup, a handmaiden of President George W. Bush. On the Right Bank, Baron Hill, a moderate former congressman and resident of Seymour, was returned to Washington by the voters, defeating the man who had defeated him two years earlier, Republican Mike Sodrel.

By these elections, voters here have began the process of returning America to its roots, bound by the words of America's greatest document, the United States Constitution, in its Preamble, which reads, "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The Republicans who have controlled the Congress for the last twelve years failed to establish additional justice for all Americans, failed to ensure domestic tranquility (in the current war sending over 3000 Americans to their deaths on foreign soil), failed to provide for the common defense of all Americans, failed to promote the general welfare (allowing the divide between rich and poor to further widen), and foremost failed to secure and keep secure the blessings of liberty (carelessly flouting both the laws and constitution of our Republic and undermining civil liberties gained in over 230 years of progess).

With the swearing-in of the 110th Congress, America has returned.