Dissatisfaction with both parties

Published 3:01 pm Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The Massachusetts Senate race was the first time I contributed to a candidate in another state. The stakes were high enough, and Scott Brown answered the call for me: start making government smaller and more responsive. The election was not about Republican vs. Democrat, it was about extreme dissatisfaction with both parties moving away from the Constitution.

Scott Brown has the opportunity of a lifetime to get it right. I challenge him to return to fundamental tenets of the Constitution. If he shies away from this task he will suffer the same fate liberals of both parties are facing.

This is not a cold approach to the problems that face us as a society. We need health reform, but we don’t need a massive, controlling, unresponsive machine running it. We have to be willing to take our hands out of the government’s pocket and realize that when we ask the government to fix our problems we give it license to grow and to control.

The train has been going in the wrong direction for a long time, and unless we are ready to put the genie back in the bottle, Scott Brown will be merely a bump in the road to continued government growth and control. For the people of Washington, Massachusetts is a reminder that no unresponsive politician is safe. That being the case, Sen. Murray better look back to see who is following.

Daniel Wenceslao

Stanwood