*It is the policy of the Throw Them All Out America blog not to identify individual congressional members in blog posts. The reason for this policy is that once the name calling begins and partisan hackles rise it takes the focus away from the bigger picture of an institutionally and culturally corrupt Congress that is bankrupt of new ideas and, as an institution, is engaged in the suicidal squandering of America’s financial future. The importance of this particular Senator has nothing to do with who he is or what his party affiliation was, or now is. What is important is the message that Main Street voters in his district are sending to him.  Read on:

Pennsylvania Main Street voter anger over the Congressional Wall Street bailouts precipitated a change of political parties for one U.S. Senator today. Reason?  Since voting for the stimulus, which he knew “would not be popular” he “traveled the state” [Pennsylvania] and talked to party leaders, office holders and supporters. After “carefully examining public opinion” it became clear to him that his vote on the stimulus had caused “a schism which make our differences irreconcilable.” Arrogant, condescending and narcissistic to a fault he went on to say in his prepared statement that, “I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged” by Main Street primary voters of his now old party!

Thank you Pennsylvania Main Street voters! Thank you for firing the first shot in a voter financial revolution to take back and restore an out of control Congress. Thank you for setting the example of what hopefully will be a tsunami of congressional incumbents with no place to call their political home come 2010. Every single Congressional incumbent who legislated and promoted the financial environment that led to the Great Financial Meltdown of 2008; who then voted to spend tax payer money to bail out Wall Street needs to be thrown out of office. As one of the great Tea Party signs on April 15^th 2009  said, “You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote them out!”