I pray that Independant voters, who may have been leaning towards Tea Party candidates have been watching the debates in Delaware, Kentucky, and Nevada, will look inside themselves to see of it wouldn't be better to vote the way they did in the elections of 2006 and 2008.

I have no doubt that back in the days Tea Partiers want to go back to in their zeal to enforce the US Constitution, say some 200 years ago, ill equipped candidates waged successful campaigns, but the damage their presence in the US Congress wrought then was innocuous compared to the damage they could do in today's legislative body representing a 300,000,000+ population.

Citizens of the 1800's were protected somewhat just by the slowness of communication. Too, the Senate of that period's main responsibility was to moderate hula-hoop and and silly-putty legislation passed to them by the House of the people's representatives, not climb on the bandwagon of the momentary fad, as I fear Tea Party candidates for the Senate would do today.

Otherwise, it was beyond a Senator's imagination to hold up responsible legislation passed by the House. As such, they weren't the objects of purchase as they are today.

As an aside: I do not believe that the Obama administration or the Congress have successfully explained that until everyone, healthy and unhealthy, participates in the health care plans of insurance, whatever their source, government or private, costs will NOT go down.

Today's increases we read about are nothing more then private insurers hedging their bets before the dust settles. Better to have higher premiums to come down from.