Commentary

Statism’s Waterloo

By Troy Senik
Thursday, August 20 2009

If a revolution takes root throughout the country and no one in Washington hears it, does the revolution exist? In our representative system, the answer is yes – and members of both parties ought to start paying attention if they hope to survive the 2010 midterm elections intact. We’ve heard a lot about political sea changes in the past decade. Only five years ago, the reelection of George W. Bush and the increase of Republican ranks in the Congress led GOP strategists to predict a generational realignment in favor of the party of Lincoln. But as the war in Iraq grew increasingly divisive…

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