Let your vote send Democrats message

It's so clear and so outrageous that this entire congressional session was an assault on democracy. It was a complete abdication of our elected officials' responsibilities to avoid doing even basic stuff like reading the bills. It was a thumb in the eye of the electorate to say that we know better correction, our staffers know better since we haven't read these ourselves.

This incumbent class needs to be punished intensely and severely so that this outrage never happens again. Did any Democrat publicly repudiate what was done and how it was done? Did any of them resign over it? Did any Democrats running for office say “we were wrong” or “I'm sorry the stimulus bill or Obamacare or cap and trade were passed the way they were passed”?

You see, this election is a referendum on the way this president and this Congress do things. The way the president and Pelosi/Reid have rammed bills through Congress is a radical lurch to the left. This election presents a clear choice on these policies of the left. If this lurch is not denounced by a candidate then it is accepted by that candidate.

Not an incumbent in this country had the guts to stand up and say: “What we did made a mockery of the Constitution,” or “Obamacare was a jam down; it was a disaster.”

This is a referendum election. It's all about the Democrats and what they have done and the way they have done it. The president and/or the media will interpret what you do as a giant green light or a giant red light. The future of this country is in your hands, so vote accordingly.

Jim Erickson

Arlington Heights