I usually go home for lunch. Before I open the refrigerator to remind myself what the options might be, I find the remote and turn on CNN (The Situation Room). Yesterday the TV had only been on a couple of minutes before I was physically applauding Senator Gordon Smith (even though there was no one else in the house to hear). With conviction and courage a loyal Republican was saying what came from his mind and heart instead of parroting his President and I was proud to be an Oregonian.