Tory MPs with their moats and country homes and porticoes (whatever the hell they are) have already got away from the working classes as fast as they possibly could and now use their expenses to shore up the defences.
Election Day was middle-class America's declaration of independence from a Republican-led administration and Congress that for six years has been telling working men and women and their families in this country to shut up, listen up and go to hell.
Best known so far as one-third of the edgy country trio Pistol Annies (along with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley), whose debut album "Hell on Heels" was a sensation in 2001, Ms. Monroe never fell out of demand as a songwriting collaborator and backup singer in the years between records of her own.
As Mr. Caddell sees it, the failure of too many Republican Party leaders and candidates to do as Joe Lieberman did and "put the country first" out of a belief that "they could rely on getting out the vote and the hell with the issues" has led to our present pass.