Senate Republicans: Fight! Fight Until The Bitter End

21 Dec, 2009 by Melissa Clouthier

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Rumor has it that the Republican Senators are thinking about yielding their time on the Senate floor so they can be home with their families for Christmas. My advice? Don’t do it. Please, please don’t do it.

Americans already feel detached from their leaders. Already Americans feel voiceless and helpless before the socialist onslaught of the Democrats. We cannot be in the Senate chambers. We cannot sit there and revolt–well, we could, but it hasn’t come to that yet.

The last line of defense is the Republicans in the Senate.

This is symbolic, you say. The vote is as good as done. The Democrats are rolling over the Republicans and the American people, a few more days matters not.

Wrong.

It matters. The American people need to know that there are people in Washington, D.C. who share their anguish at their free country slipping away. They need to hear their words voiced by their representatives.

We have a Republic, if we can keep it. That means that I can write an editorial. I can write a blog post. I can Twitter my discontent. But it takes a Senator on the Senate floor to voice my perspective; to put it on the official governing record.

Republicans staying means my vote means something. I may not be able to fight, but my elected official can fight for me.

Stay. Fight.

Looks like they are listening.

And here’s a note for all of us on the conservative side: We have witnessed a disastrous bill get passed along party lines. The Republicans held. All of them, held. We need to support our Senators and thank them for standing for the American people.