Scott Brown's upset win in Massachusetts is not just a referendum on the current administration's agenda and governance, it signals a repudiation of elected representatives who ignore the will of the people!

In the final analysis, ours is still a government, "of the people, by the people and for the people," and elected representatives who choose to defy that principle, do so at their own political peril.

A simple solution to "business as usual" in Washington is term limits. However, that would be asking representatives to vote themselves out of office. Since that's not likely to happen, the alternative is for "we the people" to vote them out of office!

Jerrold L. Brotman, Timonium

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