To the Editor:
The stinging rebuke of President Obama and the Democratic Party on Tuesday was not just the result of a bad economy and a failure of the administration to communicate its so-called accomplishments, as Democrats and their many allies in the media would have us believe.
It was a repudiation of the liberal agenda and, not incidentally, the way that agenda was pursued. Closed-door meetings and back-room deals were the hallmarks of the health care legislation. Lip service was given to bipartisanship while Republicans were bashed at every opportunity. The financial crisis was used to enshrine larger government.
Meanwhile, hope and change had turned into pray and wait.
The country does not want bigger government, bigger deficits and bigger unemployment rolls. It wants the opposite.
Mark R. Godburn
North Canaan, Conn., Nov. 4, 2010
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 