Liberty!

Think back one year ago today, the President was inaugurated. On every blog and in the news, everybody spends a lot of time mulling over all the bad stuff that grips this country. Well for this blog post anyway, I'm going to go through some of the good things (a least good for a conservative) that have happened this last year. They are in no particular order or ranking.

1) The Rick Santelli rant. A virtually unknown CNBC commentator rants on air about government spending and a possible "Chicago Tea Party". This is the seed that starts the Tea Party movement.

2) Tea Party rallies all over the country before, after and on April 15.

3) Creation of the 912 project. The "brain child" of conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. Local 912 groups being created all over the country.

4) Attendance in congressional town halls increases in opposition to government spending and bailout bills.

5) August recess. When the Congress took a recess in August, they went home and their constituents told them in no uncertain terms that they did not approve of the health care bill.

6) September 12. The March on Washington on September 12 had between 1 and 2 million people, as well as groups meeting in state capitals all over the country.

7) Liberal Republican, Dede Scozzafava forced out of the race in New York 23.

8) Republican wins in New Jersey Governors race.

9) Republican wins in Virgina Governors race.

10) Health care bill taking much longer than planned. Originally thought to be complete by August 2009, still not complete.

11) Cap and Trade appears to be going nowhere in the Senate.

12) Obama approval ratings dropping like a rock.

13) Scott Brown, a Republican, wins an election for the Senate seat of the very liberal state of Massachusetts.

As conservatives sometimes I think we need to step back and look at what has really been done over the last year. The above highlights (and others I'm sure I missed) point out that the people do matter.

At the start of this year the whole country was in kind of a "fog". They just elected a man President they knew nothing about, based on his charisma and ability to read a teleprompter. What happened over the course of the year is that the American people started becoming more informed about what was really going on in the country. Then the people got angry and started fighting back.

I think the first year of the Obama administration will be looked at favorably in our history books. Not because of Obama, because of the American people. The people again resumed their roll of leading this country.

I think you can sum-up the last year with one word the this country is based on ....Liberty!