TEA PARTY-BACKED TED CRUZ beats Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst for the Republican nomination for US Senate. I think we're seeing the Tea Party as a force to be reckoned with and (I hope) a threat to the entrenched bureaucrats on both sides of the political aisle.

The progressives won control of the Democrat party in 2006, won the Presidency and Congress in 2008, and promptly imploded with their starry-eyed, narcissistic incompetence. The 2010 election was a strong rebuke to the progressives, which they refused to accept, and 2012 will be a watershed election where Americans will take back their government. In 2014, I expect (hope) that Americans will complete the process by tossing out the entrenched on both sides of the political spectrum.