Emanuel Cleaver: “I want to give kudos to the -- to the Tea Party members because they pretty much had their way.”

Tonight, after more than 305,000 Missourians demanded a say, the Supreme Court has put this shameful and unlawful scheme to rest. Power to the people.

Right here in the middle of the country in the sometimes-cold Midwest, where people became so upset that they did what one can do only in a democracy, and they went out and organized.

If I have to serve the people who live just outside of Columbia and Jefferson City, then I’ll do that.

We just received a healthy dose of encouragement that the voice of people in the United States still matters.