Those scratch marks you see on the threshold of the U.S. Capitol entrance are evidence of senators and congressmen being dragged out kicking and screaming.
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It doesn’t happen very often. They hold onto power like they cling to life itself.
Yet, already this year, it appears three sitting U.S. senators have been shown the door — in primary elections, by their own parties, no less: First came Arlen Specter, D-Pa., and Robert Bennett, R-Utah — who actually came in third in his state GOP convention.
Now it appears Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has been upended by conservative upstart Joe Miller.
Headlines have credited — or “blamed” — Sarah Palin and voter “rage” — as if voters are merely throwing tantrums and are being led around by the nose. Some in the media also want to characterize it all as a civil war in the Republican Party.
We think voters are smarter than that. We think voters know precisely what they’re doing.
We think it’s the beginning of an uprising.
