Since the respondents so far seem to have little to no understanding of the workings of the Senate perhaps some explanation is in order. A freshman senator is assigned to committees and boards, spends time meeting with various groups and generally has an extended period of time to find their way around. In comparrison to our esteemed president who spent literally his entire term in office running for the presidency, Ms. Ayotte has been a dynamo. She was voted into office by a significant majority of the voters and deserves a chance to acclimate herself before the character assassins come crawling out of the woodwork. Incidently, why is our senator being blamed for statements in a speech made by the junior senator from Arizona? Calling her "a liar and the worst excuse for a U.S. senator that NH has perhaps sent to Washington" is derogatory, insulting and downright ignorant. Where is the Monitor moderator? Isn't a post like this a clear violation of the rules for the site? If the same post was made about the senior senator from NH, the folks on the left would be falling all over themselves finding reasons to support her and her stance.

By the way, what exactly is our senior senator doing? We go weeks without hearing anything at all about her. Isn't Jeanne Shaheen just as responsible for making her thoughts on this issue known? Wht isn't she involved in the "back and forth of political debate?" Maybe she agrees with Ms. Ayotte? We don't know because she is as usual, absent. It takes a lot of time to build that election war chest up for the next campaign. Just ask Mr. Obama.

This legislature is doing exactly what it was voted in to do. They are cutting spending and reducing taxes on business. The more money a business has, the more jobs it can create. This increases revenue. I know that this a foreign concept here in New Hampshire, where there is a strong anti-business tradition, but it's common sense, a concept that liberals seem not to understand. Try getting something done as a small business owner in Concord. There are so many road blocks and impediments that it's nauseating.

Abe claims that this is class warfare and the middle class chances of winning are "slim to none." The people trying to kill the middle class are the ultra liberals who pass bills no one has read and tell us that we have to pass them to find out what is in them. We can "fine-tune" the bills later. When did the American people become so stupid? If a producer read a script like this from Hollywood even 10 years ago, the movie would never have been made. Why? Because it would have been so implausible as to be beyond belief. Obama and Pelosi have lead us to economic devastation and their only solution is to continue to spend money that doesn't exist, pushing us even further toward national bankruptcy. Don't you people look at California and New York and see the affects of this kind of out of control spending? There is none so blind as he who will not see.

Our esteemed president has been silent on most of the horrific topics in the news. The largest single holder of our government bonds starts a huge sell-off. Obama? Silent. Our erstwhile "allies" in Saudi Arabia slaughter their own people when the demonstrate for freedom. Obama? Silent. Either they don't turn on the news, pay any attention to the intelligence reports or have any contact with other goverments of the world. Or, maybe they have a hard time fitting those trivial little items into Obamas' jam-packed vacation and golf schedule!