Garrison Keillor: In your commentary of Jan. 20 ("Despite all the screaming, common sense will prevail"), you were right -- common sense did prevail in Massachusetts on Tuesday night. It's funny how history does repeat itself. While you ignore and ridicule the Tea Partiers as hollering and waving their arms and having "paranoid hallucinations of the right," their message has again been heard as the "shot heard 'round the world."

The only folks that havent heard the message are you, the current occupant of the White House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. You make fun of real Americans whose voices have been ignored by the Democrats in Congress and the liberal left. You and the above trio ignore and dismiss their concerns about where this country is going by calling them "unpatriotic, Nazis and pawns of the right and the media." This only adds to the reputation of the left and liberals as being out of touch with what most Americans want from their representatives in government. The unbridled pseudo-intellectualism, psuedo-elitism and unbelievable partisan shenanigans of the left are in full display, and those in power who ignore the biggest tea party yet put themselves in peril. Our Founding Fathers warned us about people like you and your ilk, and in the end, we shall prevail.

Jim Rogers, Pikesville

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