Note: We have the best labor union coverage in America right here at RedState, with LaborUnionReport and his crew, and this business in Wisconsin is 95% bullet-point labor issues. I’ll leave that to our experts. But considering the worldwide surfacing of “American-style, street-based labor issues” in downtown Tunis, Cairo, Amman, Manama, hell, even Tripoli, the last three weeks…and then all of a sudden, in Madison, Wisconsin, home of the Badgers, who just beat #1 Ohio State, and Donna Shalala, cutting buddy of Janet Reno, closing that square becomes a little more difficult.

Is this part of a grand plan, or has something gone awfully wrong?

A strange thing is happening in Madison right now, and I don’t think it’s playing out as the public employee unions there want it to. In fact, if scripted as US labor has been in guiding their brothers in the Middle East, this show in Madison has taken on an aspect of the Improv Theatre on Monday night when everyone’s still hungover. Who’s in charge? Better still, who’s the dispatcher? Who’s sending these people out into the streets to make fools of themselves?

This is only a heads up, as there are events still to develop, but pay close attention to what’s going on in Wisconsin the next few days. So far the teacher’s unions, the state senate’s democrats (cowards all), many of who in voting “absent” may well have put themselves out of a job by scramming out of  town, and yes, even Obama and the White House, seem to be doing everything wrong.

They are close to screwing the pooch. On a long, four year road to the Big Rock Candy Mountain, they just may have hit a sink-hole, thinking it was only a pothole, sinking with it much of big labor’s long term plans in the US.

So pay close attention to how the media plays this, for the stronger Governor Scott Walker plays his cards, the more people will see the real purposes of the public employees, and even in a liberal state such as Wisconsin, and even in a leftist city composed mostly of state employees such as Madison, people can still add and subtract.

There is no way the unions can win an argument in the court of public opinion as to whether they should have to pick up maybe 12% of their own health insurance and retirement benefits…when the people who are paying these little piglets’ health and retirement benefits are paying twice as much for their own, and earning on average only 20% less in salaries. Those days are over, and they can learn this with some sense of the “jig is up”, or by their ankles. (I don’t care, but I suspect Gov Walker should.)

I assume Gov Walker is not (or should not) be playing to the Madison gallery only in making his case. I hope he sees America is watching…and rooting for him.

But the whole state is watching, too, and they will see that the people who are in charge of their children (the teachers) are pigs. You can see it all over the internet. Yes, pigs, and they can compare the piglets’ comportment, hygiene and and litter habits with the manners of tea partiers, whose histories also have been recorded. The union cause will sink beneath the congregated effluvia of its own filth….for Wisconsonites are a tidy bunch, all in all.

More importantly, Walker is making a helluva case to the rest of America. Hundreds, no, probably thousands of Americans are watching, in cities, townships, counties, and a few governors, looking for an ounce of backbone.

For you see, Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s new governor, took his mandate seriously and is seriously trying to “simply balance his budget”. He seen his job and he done it.

You also see that the unions are busing in outside help, but to do what? This isn’t an election, they can’t beat people up, run people away from the polls. All they can do is fill the street with more ugly signs, noise and debris and reminders that the shooting of Gabby Gifford came from their side of the fence, and the media won’t be able to help them one bit…if the governor will not budge.

Now I’m not putting Scott Walker up for the president in 2012. He’s a regular guy. But he strikes me as a man of honor and fortitude who is simply going to carry out his job under the state constitution, and his oath…by God. A man of Integrity.

Suddenly a power issue is at stake here that no one really saw coming. The Mideast is in flames, at the hands of several countries’ national unions, under American labor tutelage, plans were going forward, and suddenly American public employee unions find themselves going all-in in Madison, Wis-damn-consin, over an issue they cannot possibly win. They have gone all-in way too soon. And Obama must back them. And now their whole game can unravel.

We need to send this simply message to Gov Walker: Leadership is catching, and leadership is built on a few very well-known, but hard to demonstrate qualities, among them, truth of purpose, fortitude, courage, and honor.

We all have these, but rarely under the wilting glare of power the forces of the Enemy can muster. This is where Scott Walker finds himself today. Send him every ounce of encouragement you can. Let him know he is not alone. And let him know that if he succeeds there, little Scott Walkers will be born across the country, and the Enemy will find itself in hasty retreat.

Sometimes it only takes one.

When Leadership stands up to Demagoguery, Demagoguery doesn’t just retreat, if often surrenders.

I didn’t pick this place, Scott Walker didn’t pick this place, but this battle is still one of our choosing. It can start here. I can smell it.

If you haven’t noticed, now that Hosni Mubarak has officially stepped down, the Egyptian Revolution has actually taken on an aspect of being popular. The fellahin, the Egypt Street, have joined rent-a-mobs and left wing students to celebrate Mubarak’s departure. And the military has stepped in (Thank God), and called for a new constitution and elections in six months.

This popular exultation will soon fade into uncertainly as to what those next six months will bring, since almost no one has worked there for nearly three weeks and most everything has been closed. They are nearing being broke, with shortages everywhere. The legitimate grievances the Egyptian people had against the government, alongside skyrocketing world food prices thanks to US ethanol policy and (some say) our monetary policy, will be no better tomorrow now that Mubarak has gone. The new shine on their shoes will be soon be gone.

For many good reasons the new military caretaker government wants people to return to work and to a state of normalcy. But that was never the plan when this revolution began three weeks ago. One cannot logically assume that a leftist coalition of students and labor and the Muslim Brotherhood will simply walk away and turn the stage over to genuine forces of democracy in Egypt. Having succeeded in bringing about only half their grand plan in Act I, that of bringing down Mubarak, they will have to raise the curtain on Acts II and III in order to insinuate themselves into Egypt’s future government. Remember, Egypt was always the jewel in the crown in not only Islamist ambitions for the destruction of Israel and US influence in the Middle East, but for Islamist totalitarian control, a la Iran, of the entire region.

So continued organized chaos such as we now see on the streets of Cairo will probably be a new norm.

A little background

In earlier pieces here and here I stated my position; it would be better for the military to step in rather than allow a Left-Labor-Muslim Brotherhood take the reins of government with the shill, and friend of Barack, el Baradei as the head of government. That is still not out of the question, only now they will have to reach that goal through other, more “democratic” means, as the next six months portend. This has been planned for. They have to hijack these next months of new-nation building.

Early on, in week one, we laid out here (thanks to LaborUnionReport, cited in my posts above, and now cited by Glenn Beck, among others) a scenario whereby leftist American labor unions, the leftist World Youth Alliance, with the help of Google, Twitter, and other corporate fellow travelers (or greedy suckers, take your pick) began setting up this “freedom in the streets” scenario two years ago. The US and British media, either simpatico or useful idiots (doesn’t matter) quickly adopted the meme that what they were witnessing was a true grass roots popular revolt against an authoritarian regime.

With the willing help of the media the cards are set out nicely on the table for the coming events to unfold as a rising expression of popular democracy in Egypt, even as it is not, and never was planned to be. It will be a formulaic play.

We called it right, the military was and is the only near term solution, buying what seems approximately six months to keep the Communists and/or Muslim Brotherhood out of power. End of Act I.

So, exit Muslim Brotherhood, stage right, at the end of Act I to re-emerge in Act III. Exit also Berkeleyite leftist students, stage right, to re-emerge at the end of Act II, around election time to once again fill the streets, especially if the new elections appear not to be going so well. Then, Stage left, right now, enter the Communist world workers alliance, to keep the streets filled, only this time with angry state and municipal workers, to keep the world press on the job, Cairo on the front page, and to lay the groundwork, below the fold, for what labor unions do best in the United States…to organize thuggery, intimidate true freedom parties as they will emerge in the coming weeks, and steal elections, as they have done in the US for many years.

We are now seeing the curtain rise on Act II; the labor unions, no doubt with financial, technical, and boots on the ground support from American and the UK labor. This is their big scene on stage. The unions keep the fires lit…and keep the media attention away from other scenes about to be played out.

But you see, there really were genuine democracy groups in Egypt. So, the new military government is probably confronted with several dilemmas, for they witnessed Mubarak purge these groups for years, yet now they must embrace them..genuinely…if they, and Egypt are to survive. They have known about them for years. But how do they discern between the genuine and the not-so-genuine democracy movements? The military will likely play favorites, (sorry, folks, this is how it is done) but unlike Mubarak’s promises 30 years ago, they must insure that the new Constitution grants to the people some genuine “freedom” reforms, and yes, reforms that can be capitalized on, and grown in coming years to make the people feel even more secure. These reforms must be real.

This will be the hard part for the military, understanding this. Certain things that occurred under Mubarak must not be allowed to occur again. (And yes, these reforms will not comport with Western understandings, but will reflect the realities of a Muslim society, even as it is generations in advance of many middle Eastern Muslim societies.) It is the Egyptians who must define “reform” and “freedom” here, not American conservatives…or leftist Berkeley-ites.

And you must know that the American media will miss all these things, if no other reason, professional vanity, for they have hung their hat on the false “liberty-loving” sensibilities of a bunch of radical leftist college kids and communist labor organizations. They can’t back away now. Even FoxNews.

What is to be Done

So in the end, however they wish to shape the “new Egypt” that will emerge in a few months, they have a few short weeks to 1) begin understanding the ways of American/British labor cadres what will lend support to Egyptian Labor, with money and training, and learn ways to interdict them, and 2) to begin to educate and train true freedom movements in Egypt to combat the ways in which their movement will be co-opted by the American-trained labor unions, and ultimately, the Muslim Brotherhood, who will emerge in Act III.

This is a tall order. This is also out of our hands, well, sort of as we do have some assets here to help. But just pray that the seeds of democracy will prevail in Egypt, even according to how an ordinary Egyptian might see it…for even the tiniest of seeds can survive and germinate if given a little light. Under the cold blight of Marxism and the Muslim Brotherhood, those seeds will surely die, not to see light again for generations.

So it is written. Insha’Allah.

This is actually about Egypt and the illusion, still held by the American media (including FoxNews) that the protests, riots and resulting stand-off in Egypt is about more freedom for the people of Egypt and not less freedom…while we all know the outcome will be the opposite should the Muslim Brotherhood be brought into a governing coalition with Mubarak’s successor.

But its genesis actually begins here. America, and American public opinion was always the focus of that uprising, or did anyone not notice that as sure as America went home on Friday to settle in for a two-day vacation called Super Bowl Weekend, the violence in Egypt decided to stand down…since, I’m guessing, who’d notice? Coincidence?

Indeed, this “popular uprising” has foreign (mostly American) roots…not just from the American Left, and Soros and his minions (there’s a money trail in there, so look for it) but also from official US government sources, although how high the connection runs may never be known. And yes, Mr Obama read his cue cards properly…albeit a little ham-fisted inasmuch as those cue cards were changed daily last week. About Egypt he has been a puppet, as planned.

What we know

I’m not big for using hyperlinks, but visit my last two pieces last week, about el Baradei and the Muslim Brotherhood replacing the democracy movement, and you will see all sorts of links in the posts as well as the comments. The story behind this story has now become a major topic on Glenn Beck’s TV show the past few days. Thanks to LaborUnionReport I think RedState was way out in front of this story from the beginning. It should be Pulitzer Prize stuff.

What we know is that the American Left, and left-wing student groups have been deeply involved in organizing Egyptian students for well over a year. What we know is that American labor officials allied with foreign labor officials to organize labor involvement in the Tunisian, Egyptian and Jordanian uprisings last week…and they did so openly in the name of Marxist “social justice” and other culinary sound bytes such as “worker’s of the world unite”.

What we know is that any government in the region that shares power with the Muslim Brotherhood must stand for the immediate ending of all ties with the United States and the destruction of Israel, a fact I believe our State Department has been slow to grasp, and of which, sadly I must conclude Mr Obama tacitly approves.

And what we know is that the American media either knew all this, and chose not to “out” the students as leftists, and that the massed throngs who were not students were not necessarily “of the common masses” but rent-a-mobs (which in Egypt cost $200 per 1000 per day)….or was strung along by the protest organizers (which is easy to do if you’ve studied journalists trying to cover a country as large as Iraq from a single hotel…and bar…inside the Green Zone in Baghdad) so as not to be able to walk back their prior prejudices once better evidence was laid out in front of them.

No matter, either way, the media is holding to their original positions, all factually wrong, even as they are, in the end, contrary to the best interests of American security, world peace, regional stability, and most of all, freedom for the Egyptian people.

All is vanity. (Eccles 1:1) And vanity in this case often kills.

What we know can be proved, so please don’t try to tell me we don’t know this. It can even be proved by all the things that did not and have not happened from what historically have been genuine democratic movements. The evidence is overwhelming that this revolt is and always was an attempted communist-Islamist takeover of the Egyptian government, the Jewel in the Crown, as it were, of Islamist aims in the region.

What most American union members did not know…

…is that their union bosses have openly avowed themselves to be fellow travelers in the greater Marxist scheme of world  “worker” (read Elitist) domination. This is new, this is bold, and this is big.

Yeah, I know, with Richard Trumka at the head of the AFL-CIO, it is hard to imagine. I knew him when he was head of the Mine Workers. A crook, yeah, but he thinks a Marxist dialectic is something they do to you in the hospital when your kidneys go bad. He ain’t bright enough to be a Commie, and even I’m a little perplexed. Whatever he’s grasping here, it isn’t a reasoned search.

But there is another possible answer. He’s been morphed, neutered, gelded, call it what you like. An addititomy, I think the sex-change-surgeons in Thailand call it.

In any case, this is big news, for you see, in all the years of the American Labor Movement, from the very beginning, from Gompers to Reuther and John L Lewis, the American Labor Movement was American, and it wasn’t joining any goddam worldwide Commie labor movement and Comintern crap seeking one world government. Screw the Europeans and screw the Russians, and screw the Commie horse they rode in on. American Labor wants better pay, better work rules and better safety, not Commies in the White House.

Pension funds came much later.

If you haven’t guessed, these were Labor’s best years in America, when they were in the high 30% of workers, for most of union labor were men…men who made things; cars, steel, coal, ore, and built things, bridges, skyscrapers, highways, canals…and we made more than anyone in the world…and by men who had fought for their country in two wars. It’s hard to say whether the rank and file drove the union leadership or they were in perfect accord, but Commies weren’t welcome in their world, and there was no way they were going to go the way of Euro-Soviet labor. American Labor loved America. That was fact.

But that was also then. When they began allowing federal and state workers, and teachers, to organize…well, many of those were men too, but theirs were sedentary ways, and by the 70s, fewer had worn the uniform or even worked with their hands by cutting grass or fixing a bicycle as a kid, and all they ever built were stacks and stacks of papers in an office, to be shuffled by other union members in another office, until those papers were finally stored in a depository in a basement by union members who at least could drive a fork lift…to be replaced by a new stack of papers.

These were girlie-men and women, the Skirt Unions, and they had an entirely different view of Karl Marx, social justice and workers of the world uniting. They saw their counterparts in Europe putting in a hard 30 hour, 4-day week, 48 weeks a year, never hitting a lick, just hand-stamping whatever piece of paper came down the line, and only pausing to read every fourth one, and then retiring at 41 to a nice condo on the Spanish coast at 75% of full pay, with full health benefits. What’s not to like about this gig? Our jealous Americans state workers have been struggling for thirty years to acquire parity with their brethren in Europe, who, as we speak, are breaking their nations’ backs, and their banks just to keep them in toilet paper at the beach.

As the Guy Unions decreased and the Skirt Unions increased in America, it was only natural that this would happen. Some of us old timers knew it a long time ago.

Then all of a sudden the Guys wake up to find out they are all Communists…by proxy. What to do? What to do?

That is the question, but I can’t answer it. Only the working men of America can.

Day 8. History may well report that there was actually a democratic sentiment somewhere in the midst of the mass protests that began a week ago in Cairo, but I doubt it.

And for sure, the world media never looked for it.

As LaborUnionReport has been establishing here at RS (this piece should be reread in light of unfolding events, and please note the corporate sponsors) and which seems to be getting traction among some other bloggers (this is huge, folks) it seems the pro-democracy movement that hit the streets were students more of the Berkeley ’64 variety than Tehran ’09. That is no longer an issue in doubt.

And now that world opinion is fully in sympathy with the sweet, desperate and poignant democratic sentiments of what turns out to be a bunch of left wing radicals, they have stepped aside and allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to move front and center to confront the forces of the Mubarak regime…all according to plan.

Note what is missing from almost every news report from Egypt: 1) any mention from the real Arab street, the fellahin, average Egyptians, and their hopes or ideal of democratic reform. This isn’t about them, never was. 2) Recalling Berkeley in ’64, and the dozens or more universities thereafter, try to find any specific mention of just what the protesters want or wanted, on Day One, or Today. Marxists psycho-babble, this committee wants this, that brigade wants that. By 1968 some of those requests had gotten so inane, you’d have thought you were watching Hans Gruber take over the Nakitomi Towers. Phonies. Marxist phonies. 3) Only now, with the emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood has any one or group stepped forward to claim a role of spokesman, with a list of demands or “solutions”. There never was anyone else. There never was a middle choice as to who might replace Mubarak. It was the Brotherhood or else.

And Barack Obama’s fingerprints are all over it.

Erick wrote yesterday that Egypt’s collapse is America’s fault going back to the days of Bush I, for Mubarak’s dynastic intentions go back at least that far, his control tightening against not only Muslim extremism but any organized opposition to his one party rule. But he was a formidable ally we’re told, only, at 1.9 billion a year (remember those secret protocols to the Egypt-Israel Peace Accords?) I’d be pretty honorable in my obligations to my benefactors as well.

But what is now being exposed is not so much ordinary people bumping into political opportunists and anarchists in the street to feast on the rotting carcass of a dying dictator, than a well planned, timed and executed movement covering at least five Middle Eastern countries…Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, with Algeria beginning to rumble.

While Obama cannot be blamed for the decrepit state of the Egyptian corpse, it can no longer be said that he, his administration, including the State Department, American unions, or his many corporate pals in the social media business, are not up to their elbows in this well coordinated attack around the Middle East…

…but not to bring down old, out-dated autocracies such as the Hashemite Kingdom in Jordan and the Mubarak regime in Egypt for the sake of human liberty and dignity…

…but to establish a neo-marxist, fascists (I see elements of both) regimes in all those places, with the center piece of governance in all them being the Muslim Brotherhood, who Barack Obama suddenly sees as a kinder gentler version of their “former selves”.

Finally, Barack Obama has declared himself…

Ghouls versus Goons

…and Obama has chosen the Ghouls. Considering the downside, I choose the Goons, in part because we can deal again with them again in 2013, when new management comes to town…and Israel may still be there.

That’s what’s at stake, ultimately.

George Patton, in the middle of a great battle, trying to save a beleaguered and surrounded town in Belgium, asked that a strange prayer be asked of God, that he might allow better weather conditions by which to kill the enemy.

If you ever prayed that bad guys should beat evil guys, pray that prayer now. Invoke the Horns of Hattin and the Marxist Crusaders. God will understand, and so will Egyptians.

I think the “gambit” in Egypt is becoming more apparent.

Not only is Israel being pincered, but so is Saudi Arabia.

And yes, most of us need a score card. And we need a reminder about the sometimes hard-to-see, but very important distinctions between an authoritarian thug like Mubarak and the proto-communist facilitator like Mohammed ed Baradei.

First came a heads-up by Gamecock last Sunday in his pre-State of the Union piece about Tunisia’s Lavender Revolution which was greeted a bit too enthusiastically by America’s press. This is a good thing, we’re told. (We’ll see, let’s hope.) Then came Hezbollah’s ‘takeover’ in Lebanon, contemporaneous with Obama gratuitously rewarding one of Hezbollah’s primary sponsors, Syria, by returning our ambassador after a six year shut-out precisely because of their sponsorship of terrorism. (Almost no media coverage on this.) Just as Syria helped engineer a terrorist-takeover of Lebanon, we rewarded them by pulling down their wanted poster at the post office. Per Barack Obama and Madame Chiang kai Clinton, they are no longer a rogue state.

This was a big, big two-fer for Islamo-fascism and terror, not to mention for anti-American stirrer’s of strife of every stripe (say that three times), and, of course, for the worldwide anti-Israel lobby…who used to be called another name until academicians and European pols wanted to disguise their anti-Jewish resentments for the sake of courtliness. Germans were Jew-haters and baiters, but certainly not the History Department at Harvard.

So yes, Jews worldwide now abed do not sleep better with these unfolding events, for just as we here all dream of the great changes that will take place in 2012, Israel knows that the prospects for those changes taking place will make it all the more probable that a dark and sinister attempt will be made sooner, not later, against her existence.

And that America may not stand with Israel must also be thrown into the calculation.

Then on Israel’s southern flank (and Saudi Arabia’s western) the Egyptian Street erupted, and thanks to Strieff’s excellent FP piece Egypt at the Abyss we got some insights as to what might really be going on there. Strieff raised good points about the legitimate use of force by the government, any government, when people, regardless of their motives, become destructive. His reasoning is sound, for we all know that no matter what the intent of the mobs assembled in Egypt, that the sponsors of mayhem will be in their midst, egging them, turning over cars, setting fires, and the television cameras and commentaries will not distinguish them. The noblest motives and the darkest intentions can be assembled together on those streets and we will not know which is is which. The objective of this revolt is as much us, and European opinion, as it is to strike fear in the heart of the Mubarak regime.

So, how do we know who to root for? Read on.

Then Sunday LaborUnionReport added still more context, that of possible US-State Department complicity in bringing about this attempted street coup, and the role of American and international labor (decidedly pro-Left, historically un-nationalistic, and unsympathetic to the democratic aspirations of everyone, everywhere.) The plot thickens.

What we know from Middle Eastern and European history is that provocateurs, both Islamo-fascists and communists, step into the breach when civil unrest turns so violent that the people will do anything to make it stop. This is a script being drawn up in almost all the European capitals now, and the US as well, so become acquainted with it. Trust me, when Iranians took to the streets in 1979 against the Shah, it was not their desire that, in 60 days, they would be wearing hijabs again. They wanted more freedom, not less. But more control and less freedom were precisely the intent of the thousands of mullahs who fanned those flames. So, 61 days later, most of the Iranian people regretted their hasty decision, their above-the-knee skirts locked away in a closet to be admired in front of a mirror only, behind shuddered windows for what, 31 years now, their captivity complete into a second generation, with children who’ve never even seen a Dial soap commercial.

El Baradei, Innocent Bureaucrat or Sleeper?

Then enter Mohammed el Baradei, an Egyptian, former head of the UN agency (the IAEA) that has created this ugly mess of a nuclear Iran, and possibly even brought on the 2003 invasion of Irag. He is almost an Obama clone, an academician of dubious distinction, or even provability, but belonging to an international body that is even easier to hide averageness in than Harvard Law School; the United Nations. He was a career UN-guy, no friend of the interests of the United States, or world peace (until Obama brought “change” to America) having torpedoed inspections for WMD’s in Iraq, and a clear friend to the Left. But as a UN agency head, I repeat myself. He is about as Egyptian as Obama is black, and both carry in the glove compartment of their car the Nobel Peace Prize. Need I say more?

The problem, then, with el Baradei, is the same as we’ve all had with Obama since he first burst on the scene in 2007…is he a deep, dedicated Leftist, or just some poseur, a la Chance the Gardner, who just smooth-talked his way through a career among fawning toadies into a position of responsibility where he could do real damage?

In truth it doesn’t matter, for prudence dictates we consider him the former, even if he is the latter….for both in this case seem to think rather benignly about the Muslim Brotherhood who spawned such luminaries as Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and others, and probably, if anyone wanted to look, trace their ancestry to Mohammad Amin al-Husayni, “Hitler’s Arab”, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. They are bad people.

It really doesn’t matter that el Baradei may be a useful-idiot facilitator (Mensheviki) or deep simpatico sleeper (Bolsheviki), the result to the interests of world peace would be the same.

My view is that he is more likely a proto-communist than an Islamist sleeper, which explains the deep interests of the American Left and unions have in his accession, believing, yet again, they can “control” the Islamo-fascists once they bring them into government. More like the Kennedy’s in undoing the Diems in Vietnam that Carter cutting loose the Shah, I think the fix has been in for quite awhile, a “class tie” thing that will start going south almost as soon as el Baradei is sworn in.

Why we root for authoritarians from time to time.

Jeanne Kirkpatrick wrote a Foreign Affairs article early in the Reagan years, distinguishing between authoritarian regimes and totalitarian ones. I recommend you read it. (I met Ms Kirkpatrick in 1991. She asked me to put a little more relish on her hot dog.) What you need to know about that difference is this (these are all my words, not hers):

Authoritarians, while thuggish, can be peeled away, like an onion, and the people can achieve many of their “cultural democratic aspirations” and eventually gain enough power to overthrow the regime. Machiavelli hinted at this in his prescriptions to “The Prince” which i don’t read as cynically as others might. His was advice was like the old Fram oil filter line “You can pay me now, or pay me later”.

Totalitarians, on the other hand…and this applies as equally to Communists as the Islamo-fascists…set up totalitarian regimes that require 1-2 generations to bring down, and an equal number to recover…if there is anything left to recover from.”

OK, Anyone but el Baradei.

No matter who he’s pimping for, el Baradei’s pimping totalitarianism, and the Egyptian people, even the street vendor who really doesn’t understand freedom and just wishes he could get a more congenial “mafia” to collect that 10% each week, will lose. And they will know it very quickly, just as the people of Tehran did in ’79. With control over the Suez, the rest of us will know shortly thereafter. It would be like TSA setting up screening lines at the end of your block.

So then who?

The key, as we know, is the Egyptian military. What we (you) don’t know is they are at the mercy of the US government to some extent. You see, as part of the 1979 Treaty negotiated by Jimmy Carter between Anwar Sadat (Egypt) and Menachem Begin (Israel) there was a secret protocol of annual cash money. You didn’t think Carter got that deal with charm, did you? (I knew inside people in those days.) That figure runs about 1.9 BILLION per year now, and we’ve been pretty honest in keeping our end of the deal the past 31 years.

The point is, that 1.9 billion represents a significant stimulus to the Egyptian private (read “licensed”) economy, as much as 70% of the military budget, and 100% of the grease that keeps the corrupt Egyptian political engine running.

That’s a whole lot of leverage and I have no doubt that either the WH or State has back-channeled to the military that el Baradei’s “our man”….or else. Among generals especially, you can’t imagine how existential this conundrum can be, for they know that el Baradei represents the quick rise of a Revolutionary Guard (read SS) inside the military that will forever subordinate them, and the eventual killing of the golden goose  in either case.

The only way they can say “no” to the overtures being made today by the WH/State is to bet on a GOP victory in 2012 that will reinstate their paycheck and their preeminence.

We need to let them know this….now.

By calling Obama’s bluff, anyone but el Baradei, the military can then put in their own man, and then wait out the next 20 months. And pray.

Democracy in Egypt will then be saved, only no will know it, or live to see it. But it will happen. I agree with with Ms Kirkpatrick on that.

Watch this YouTube presentation of Eric Cantor’s contretemps with NBC’s David Gregory last Sunday.

It’s a good teaching lesson for the GOP Freshmen Class. It’s about the resurfacing of the Barack Obama-Hawaii birth certificate issue when the mayor of Honolulu said he had seen it, but suddenly can’t find it. Limbaugh made light of it on Friday, which apparently piqued Gregory’s “fears”. I doubt Cantor got a heads-up that this would be discussed.

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Now, no senior member of the Washington Press Corps such as Gregory, who thinks he outranks God anyway, is going to sit down with any ordinary member of the Freshman unless he has in his hands 8 x10 glossies showing an illicit relationship with a 14 year old. But there are copy-cat journalists back home trying to make points, so you need to study this kind of thrust-and-parry, where the inquisitor starts out on top and always…always…ends up there.

You can do better than this, so study it.

You need to become good, no better, for in less time time than you think, several of you will be in the leadership and the day will come when you will be out there fielding fastballs aimed at your heads from the Washington press corps as well.

With the media this sort of thing is a turf fight, i.e., who’s on top. Ideology and politics come second, and I think many of the GOP leadership, Cantor included, don’t quite get it.

It started out well enough, as Cantor laughed off the opening question. Reagan was always good at this, only his was a kindly chortle immediately putting the inquisitor in a junior position. “Well…” (unspoken term, “Junior” or “Skippy”). Reagan could talk to anyone as if he were a kid, which is pretty disarming for vanities like Gregory’s.

Anyway, Gregory quickly parried, putting Cantor on the defensive, a position from which he never recovered…over a subject as immaterial to Republicans as who fired the first shot at Ft Sumpter. Rat-a-tat-tat, Gregory badgered Cantor with questions he’d pre-practiced and which Cantor didn’t know was coming.

Of course it wasn’t fair, and while I never hold it against a man because he can’t think as fast as the other man in a debate when that man is holding a crib sheet, what worries me about Cantor’s performance is that I think he took comfort in knowing that he would come off as the victim of yet another mean old media attack, and get all sorts of “Poor Eric’s” or “Mean Ol’ David Gregory” as a reward.

To too many this has been some kind of victory for years. So take note:

The people did not send its new Congress, including its leadership, to win our pity for standing their ground without crying while being bullied. We wanted, and quite frankly expect “attaboys” instead of “poor Eric’s”. We want bloody noses distributed, not accepted with stoic dignity.

The truth is, guys like Gregory are easy, for even a man his own age can talk down to him, for vanity is a form of immaturity. Find a vain man, or a narcissist, and you can speak to him like a 16-year old. The birth certificate issue is a line of questions that could easily have been turned back on Gregory, and it does not require, as many of the lawyers in Congress believe, that they must constantly cram factoids, and practice, practice, practice how best to respond to these kinds of questions from the press.

The better way is to 1) know how an ordinary adult citizen might reply (minus the cursings), and 2) learn the latent bias in their questions, for most of their attacks are based on their own fears. Then respond to that.

Take the birth certificate issue. The truth of that issue is that of an underlying fear among the Left that Obama may not have been born in Hawaii, thus throwing a cloud upon his presidency. Their purpose is to thwart legitimate inquiry and even the tiniest bit of suggestion that this could become a legitimate issue. In other words, having not done any homework at all, they are afraid of what fact “birfers” might find, while totally ignorant of the law.

(Note: this is no different than the Left and the media’s obsessive behavior about race, for it is they who are the racists, and not the millions of people who go around never thinking about it one way or the other in the course of their day.)

So, in a case such as this, it should be easy to let the TV audience know who’s really tied up in knots with this “birfer” issue. Good God, when you find a person like that you can own him…a thing Eric Cantor obviously doesn’t know, for it would have been so easy to answer David:

“Shoot, David, to me where a person is born matters less than who he is born to. A child born to an American citizen is an American citizen in the eyes of most Americans and me too. He could have been born on a freighter crossing the International Date Line and he’d still be an American citizen.

“But your questions, David, tells me you’re worried. If it turned out that Barack Obama had been born in Indonesia or Kenya and not Hawaii, would you feel differently about his legal qualifications to serve?

“I wouldn’t, but would you?

“It seems that you’re the one who is worried here. Not me.”

At which time Eric rises from the table, and goes back to his office, with David Gregory’s head nicely displayed on a brass platter.

This was not a Left-Right confrontation in the classical sense they want to win every skirmish, for clearly the Left, from Kos to HuffPo to Soros, no one takes any special delight in seeing this sort of NBC-Takedown. Arianna didn’t pour herself another glass of that awful Greek swill, Kasnaya Argyros Santoriniand, then cheer. This does not advance their cause. it only keeps their enemy on the defensive. Ho-hum.

This was about territory, the Media vs GOP Congress. Gregory just re-marked his territory on Cantor’s ass one more time, while Eric went home thinking he’d gotten some real good points with the pity & outrage crowd.

I couldn’t live like that.

But Cantor seemed to be content to be the victim. For him this was a win, but for the new wave of voter outrage that started this revolution, it’s a lose-lose, and it’s up to the Freshmen to start training so as to end this sort of stiff-upper lip weekly smack-down. We don’t want out congressmen going off to Washington and begging on the mercy of the court of public opinion, portraying themselves as poor innocent wanderers just praying for any old bone the media will deign to hand under the table.

Eric Cantor strikes me as dullard in the arts of Queensbury, but like Paul Ryan, very important to the Cause nevertheless, only perhaps best serving the Glorious Fight by being stuck over in a corner with green eye shades.

The people expect, not hope, but expect to see just a little more gravel in the gut and spit in the eye (John Cash, Boy Named Sue) from their elected members of Congress.

OK, they can’t behave like me, I’ll agree. I’d be banished in a week. But Michele Bachmann seems to be getting pretty close without pulling out her switchblade. Not so sure about Pence yet. But he has other attributes, and besides, we’re talking about regaining lost territory in the Congress, not becoming president. Herman Cain is the only candidate out there who (and this I believe) would take David Gregory out in the back alley if he tried such an ambush on him.

Faking it

Back to Cantor’s uncomfortable laugh. I know age matters, but I wonder, with Cantor, is this genuine? Is it in character for him to be glib? In fact, his laugh reminded me of Russians when I made fun of Lenin back in the 90′s. Sort of like chuckling past a graveyard.

The reason I raise this is that last week the comment was made here by someone that perhaps the GOP should “fake out” the Democrats and the media. Be syrupy, bend over backwards to appear nice before the microphones and cameras, while hammering the hell out of them in conference, committee and on the floor. For a lot of people there’s much to be said for this.

But being an old southern lawyer who’d watched other old southern lawyers for years spoon out the molasses by the jarful with the right hand, while sharpening a dagger with their left hand behind their backs…to me it sounds just a little too much like what the Democrats have been doing for years and years, and with much more practice at it.

There’s a “business as usual” air about it, as well, along with the risk, as we’ve seen the past 40 years, for style to completely engulf substance. It’s also a signal that the victimhood of Eric Cantor will be about as good as it gets for our side…forever.

I have to hold to yet one more rule: When in doubt, always take the high road. Be yourself.

The good news is, that’s a winner in this new political climate. It will take awhile but the way we will defeat the seeming omnipotence of the press will first be in throwing down that shield of superiority that their acknowledged “best gladiators” carry onto the public stage. If David Gregory goes down, a dozen toady NBC bloggers go down with him, not like Keith Olbermann, mind you, but by being whipped publicly just as if James J Braddock has just whipped Max Baer. (Don’t worry, Olbermann will get his chance..if he ever bothers to get in the ring. His kind are about to become mere echos.) If Gregory is any indication, it shouldn’t be difficult. They haven’t confronted honest men since 1988, so it may be fun to watch them first squirm, then react, then lose.

But you Freshmen, you have to know how to beat these guys. And for God’ sake, don’t let Eric Cantor be your tutor. There’s a better way.

Dare I say it, Luke, look to the Force.

The soul of conservatism is defined by sweat equity.

There’s a longer and shorter answer to why this is so, but since my purpose here is to convince deep-pocket conservatives that they are misdirecting much of their political giving I’ll avoid the longer answer, which we can visit at another time.

Right now our side is losing important ground against the Left because of those lost dollars and there is little time, less than a year, to correct it.

So, I’ll speak here primarily to the sweat equity of wealth-builders, and less to the 2) sweat equity of building the House common to most of us, or the 3) sweat equity of developing the conservative Intellect (who Moses Sands called “Protectors”), although they all figure prominently in the composite of American Exceptionalism. All are under assault equally.

Suffice it to say that the notion of sweat equity itself is under assault in America, and I think it is time for our most successful members to step in and stop it. For you see, individual House builders, like most of us, and smart guys like Sowell and Krauthammer, are really quite limited in what they can do to stem this new kind of assault being made on the American soul. Fighting this enemy requires organizational planning above and beyond grass roots political activism and getting out the vote every two years. It requires more than best sellers. It even requires more than popular talk shows and media. Much more. It requires well-targeted, well-planned money.

Our Achilles Heel

While personally I would like for a few conservatives to redirect a few of those dollars down avenues I have in mind, seeking outcomes I think are important, there is something a little more fundamental to be considered here first…

…for conservatism’s greatest strengths (we work for our livelihoods and generally think the best of each other) have been turned against us, while the Left’s greatest weaknesses (they bitch and whine, doth party and sloth a lot and are filled with hate) have been turned into assets.

Irony of ironies, one of Aesop’s most ancient lessons has been turned on its head, for the wastrel Grasshoppers are not just defeating, but dispossessing, the industrious Ants precisely because of their wastrel ways.

How can this, how can this be? In Vegas this is called the break-the-bank, all-or-nothing crap shoot; for they’re gone all-in, and have become a swarm of locusts, a plague, gambling that we still believe we can rush out to the fields and swat them away with blankets.

About sweat equity, we need to remember:

The Founders understood that free men would aspire to be the best they can be if provided the open doors to do so. That men should try to create wealth, and then spread it around according to their tastes is as natural a desire as men can have.

And despite what Marx said, this is Good. For we are better at spreading around wealth for the common good than all the other systems offered up precisely because we have such a regard for sweat equity in judging men’s worth. Those who work hardest merit more.

Provide the open doors, with free and open markets, plus the Rule of Law to protect all the parties, and a House each man can build as his own and pass on, no matter how humble…and then a nation of untold potential will emerge.

And in a moral society (our national mortar) it could last forever, for our success would precipitate a kind of gratitude that would cause every man who ever made it to the top to then pause, and reach around with a handshake to those at the bottom still struggling to rise, thus repeating the process over and over again.

The entire doctrine of liberty found in the Constitution is designed around the free man and woman’s right and power to build…from their own House, however humble, to a business or profession of every kind and size….and that it will be perpetuated less through the blood line than through that handshake.

We are a nation of builders, then, and as mentioned above, America is carried forward on the backs of three types of builders, named above, which rightfully compose the heart and soul of conservatism in America.

Now, I’ve written a lot here about “the handshake”. As a reminder, consider its math…

The successful man naturally passes on the bulk of his financial estate to his children. But the Constitutional blueprint “relied” on him passing on much more, for the rule of thumb is three generations and the kids will blow it all anyway, and probably become liberals until they become broke…mostly because they didn’t invest the same amount of effort in building either their House or their fortunes. Their sweat equity in their achievements was much less, sometimes zero.

This rule goes back to the early days of Progressivism (American socialism) in the late 1800s, when all those young men who traveled to Europe to study Hegel and Marx to bring back home so as to try and re-engineer America, were the children and grandchildren of prominent, wealthy “builders” of the American experience. So we should all know, from the beginning, liberalism, progressivism and socialism in America was bought and paid for with someone else’s sweat equity.

And we also know it’s very difficult to keep the ideal of sweat equity in the family once a certain amount of wealth is obtained. So of equal importance to the Constitutional blueprint is that the wealthy man must pass on “his legacy” of success by extending his hand back down the hill to those coming up behind. This handshake is a bond, not unlike the Eucharist, that links him to every generation of builder who came before him and to every would-be builder he can touch who will come after him. It is an acknowledgment that once upon a time he’d been there, too. It is a quiet prayer of thanksgiving in one direction while a “Follow me, boys” in the other.

The loss of this handshake, and its meaning, has been the failed legacy of conservative wealth in America in the last forty years.

It’s that simple.

The ugly truth is that those who earn their wealth with the sweat equity of having actually built a thing, being practical men after all, are reluctant to spend or invest money unless according to models that helped them build their wealth in the first place, while…

…the wealthy of the Left, who either inherited it, or obtained it on the backs of the sweat equity of others, or by luck (film and television personalities and the like, Hollywood, and yes, stardom is 95% luck, the other half good looks, sprinkled with just a dash of talent) have spent it as willy-nilly as they acquired it. They invest only to perpetuate privilege for themselves and sloth for their patrons. Easy come, easy go.

Now, America had lived for generations under the assumption that those who can, do, while those who can’t…well, they er, complain…and that the doers, by-right-of-merit, will always overshadow the complainers, in most part because they outnumber them. This “law” is not inviolate, however, for it ignores still higher laws of math, as when the complainers start to catch up with the doers in number, and are then allied with armies of politicians, bureaucrats and professionals with a sweat equity ratio of say 2:1, (builders range in the 10:1-and-up range) who have learned they can profit by fleecing the builders for the benefit of both the complainers and the fleecers.

By 1970 this had become the new rising economic class in America for they had become so good at fleecing the builders and their earned wealth that they’d hunkered down, spending almost all their time just trying to hold onto their rightful earnings…while entire university disciplines, including business school and law school, were dedicated to propagating this sort of unnatural and self-destructive universe of Feeding-the-complainers-for-profit, Inc. There have been many casualties, highest among them, the handshake.

America is now under the control (temporarily we hope) in all its government offices, in many of our corporate offices, and in almost all our schools of higher learning, of people who never built a thing and have about as much sweat equity in their stolen wealth as Joe Biden does in his original thoughts.

This is where we’re getting killed; not in lack of spirit or willingness to fight, nor a lack of able-bodied men and women, or heaven forbid, a dubious Cause. Our soldiers are fit and keen and willing to carry the fight to the enemy. But all they have are blankets for swatting bugs.

We’re getting killed because the Left is pouring millions into destroying us, both politically and culturally, while true conservatives are holding back, waiting for someone else to come to them with a better plan. And they are looking in all the wrong places.

Conservative wealth has this exactly backwards. Let me explain why this is so.

We (and the world) lost Russia because American business (granted, its 1990′s class) was waiting for the Russians to come to them. To find them. Only the Russians didn’t know how. With genius and creativity of incredible scope and the ability to earn millions for anyone who would simply meet them half way, the Russians didn’t even know what Yellow Pages were. They couldn’t find a dentist in Gorkiy, let alone an American company who might be interested in a new theory on permutations that could change computer science.

So we lost them. And today Russia (and Russians) hate us. That window has been shut.

But if you think losing Russia was bad…

…try losing the goose that feeds you.

The long and short of it; this is the real bottom line math

Builders, true builders are becoming more and more rare in America, both at the high end and small business end of American business. Squeezing small business has been the result, if not also the intent, of the entire Obama economic plan from the outset. They figure they’ve already co-opted the corporate side of business in that there are so few “from scratch” builders out there anymore. They don’t take you very seriously in that your political activism is so predictable. And they are mostly correct, for the government’s interests and Big Business’ interests are becoming increasingly intertwined. The Grasshoppers are overwhelming the Builder Ants.

I argue this has all been by design, but I am not an economist. I only know socialists and know what Marxists have always viewed as their greatest impediment in America…the builders.

Our real builders are being squeezed out by takers, people with no more sweat equity than what it took to get through law school, business school and fill out an OF-6512. BFD. Entire corners of our financial institutions are inhabited by people and systems that build nothing. You can acquire great wealth today, inside the system, without creating “new wealth” of any kind; not one new job, not one new dollar. George Soros comes to mind. So do the political “investors” of the Left. They create play money and spend it just as lasciviously. Their plan, a la Europe, is to replace real money with play money. Then power will be the only currency, just as it was in Middle Ages.

So it comes down to this (I’m addressing this to the rich, now)

You must first recognize the threat, namely that the goose that laid the golden goose is about to be plucked and put into the oven. You not only have to choose sides, but you have to take decisive action…on your own.

My recommended solution:

1) Make your own assessments of the situation and what needs to be done, but with a vision of the real stakes in this.

We recently suggested this to the freshman class in Congress, for they have to hire staff who, from Day One have interests that are not in the Congressman’s promises to his district’s best interests. Avoid this.

So, do not contract your best assessment skills out, even to me (I only consult) but especially to the Republican “Have Tux Will Travel” National Committee. Many of the 501(3)(c) groups you support have many people who would love to roll up their sleeves and move from the analysis side to the operational side of matters. Find them. Task them.

And there are all kinds of people out here who can get things done for you, efficiently, expeditiously, and without large overheads due to expensive tastes in ties. But you must first define the outcome.

2) Target your donations based on an outcome of your own design.

If you have one thing, or many things, that just seem “Wrong” to you, find the people who can make it right. Many are not in Congress. They’re out here. A network, in fact. Create an ops center and find them, for they’ve always been out here…waiting for you to find them, because they couldn’t get to you on a bet otherwise, and you don’t have to buy them new blazers.

3) Consider the bottom line, as you do with your 501(c)(3) donations, but never forget the intangible bottom line that cannot be measured in dollars and cents…

…the one that got you here in the first place, and your duty to protect it and pass it on. Your 501(c) (3) support is a nice 33% drag from your tax debt but it can’t keep you, and your kind, out of the cross hairs. Your tax deductible grants will not protect the core of yours, or America’s business.

You greatest investment is in this thing called America goes forward, and yes, that is no longer tax deductible.

So, take a portion of your political money off the table and put it under the table. (This always keeps them guessing.)

If you want to call this a tithe, be my guest, but you owe…yes, you owe…all of us out here to meet this locust swarm with all that you can summon to insure that the fertile field that brought you forth and the generations before you is not plowed over into a golf course for the Grasshopper set.

Do your homework.

In short, become the master of your political giving just as you were in building your company.

In the words of the balladeer Billy Ed Wheeler:

You’ve got to prime the pump, you have faith and believe

You’ve got to give yourself before you’re worthy to recieve

Drink all the water you can hold, wash your face to your feet

But leave the Bottle filled for others

Thank you kindly, Desert Pete

Passing the Plate

I’ll say it straight out; the Left’s infrastructure can be brought down but you will have to take a direct hand in it. Five-ten years, tops, and tens of millions less than they had to spend erecting it. Understand, they know their own weakness, so they still can’t stop you. You hold the winning hand, just play your cards.

You’ll note the title doesn’t say “A Steadfast Resistance to…”, or  “A Courageous Stiff Upper Lip Against…”.

Nope, in a winner-take-all, life-and-death struggle for personal liberty, individual human dignity and America, i can find absolutely no profit in us simply holding our ground…especially now that we have lost almost half of it, and the Left still dead set on taking away the rest at every opportunity.

Since I’ve been here at RedState you’ve all known what I want first and foremost; in the words of the Sundance Kid, “I want to fight ‘em.” I’ve spent a year talking about it here. Besides, that what I’m very good at; starting fires, not writing romance novels.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. (Eccles 3:1)

It’s time.

The most recent case in point; Erick and LaborUnionReport announced on Tuesday a planned march/protest, after dark, at the private home of the man leasing the land to Walmart for their projected (and approved) store in the District of Columbia. That will take place tonight (Thursday). That’s just up the road from me.

I won’t discuss the merits of a Walmart in the District. I won’t argue 1200 new jobs in the area, nor the potential for at least 10%-15% across-the-board lowering of prices by area competitors, for what is known to be some of the nation’s poorest citizens, who always seem to have to pay the highest prices for goods because of where they live. No one is more captive than inner city black folks, under the “benign” protection of corrupt politicians, ACORN neighborhood organizers (or Mr Ten-percent as they were known in Cincinnati), and Marxist labor organizers such as SEIU. You can’t pitch pennies on the street corner there without some crook leasing the sidewalk.

What I will discuss is open lawlessness and thuggery as the new normal among Democrats, their union sponsors (read “handlers”) and the Left.

I don’t know anything about DC laws, but I assume trespass and property damage are illegal and even criminal. I also assume there is no authority granted to the DC government for permitting parades and protests in residential areas where property damage can’t help but occur just because of the confined space. They don’t call downtown and commercial areas “communal areas” for nothing, where people can congregate (permits in hand) with their signs, to snake dance, chant, and convey just about any message they want to convey. But on narrow streets where people live and children play (or sometimes barricade themselves indoors) this is illegal. And yes, criminal. And I hold the police who won’t show up to protect that private property and the city councilmen who whisper in bureaucrats’ ears to issue the permit anyway, equally as criminally culpable for allowing such a thing to occur as the thugs themselves. They are accomplices and will be pursued as such.

The point is, I’m tired of griping and being outraged. This is an activist site, only there isn’t an election for nearly two more years, and while escorting Scott Brown out of office in the primaries next summer will be twice the fun as getting him in, that’s a ways away. I want to see people exposed and “thrown out” every week.

One of our principle jobs here is to keep the troops aware and energized. Being filled up with a daily bowl of outrage helps. But watching them get away with it day after day grates on my soul just as it does yours. So seeing some of these scofflaws on the run, showing their heels, and watching them duck for cover when a crowd shows up on their front lawn is even better food for my soul than any old bowl of porridge salted with indignation. I need a little red meat from time to time. I want to see us win, not just wish it.

So here’s what’s up.

Right after CPAC I’ll be announcing a new website, GreatAmericanZeroes.com, which I’d owned for some years, and which I recently turned over to a group with the ability to do more with it than time and money would allow me. This is just a heads up, so stay tuned.

Hopefully, you’ll go there and support its efforts as I think they need to raise about eight thousand, for it will be part of an integrated planning and organizational nexus for a national effort, revealing the rise of dozens of sites and cells across the country…with one purpose and one purpose only…

…to relentlessly pursue the Left.

The GAZ site will concentrate on voter fraud and intimidation, both at the legislative and street level, but as the protest tonight on the DC residence proves, almost any misconduct by thugs and public officials will be highlighted. Pictures will be taken. Names will be named, and all the things the Left loves telling the world about where you live will be told about them and their accomplices.

While some high profile groups (FreedomWorks, AmericanMajority, AmericansforProsperity, and the Tea Parties) are beginning to network with each other to maximize political action (with, despite what you read, amazingly little vanity and territorial discord), the time is ripe to insinuate ourselves into the internet in a different regard; by organizing a vast, year round, 24/t relentless pursuit of the Left…not in the polling place but on their own turf. I expect new supporters will show up as the year progresses for this kind of time-for-a-reckoning stuff is contagious. We want to start a run on the Left, just like they did on the banks.

I’ve had an planning and operational hand in these sorts of things before in some of the strangest places, but I’m not the most web-savvy guy in the world. So, I’ve been working on this with others since summer trying to draw up a bigger and better team. In my last post I said this:

…(our) power of the internet is limited in this regard. (i.e, how conservatives now use the internet.) The Left has known this for the longest time, and has been using the internet in other regards for years. I’ll speak to that at another time.

That time is now to begin using the internet in those other regards.

We will be going after the Left using their own tools…only better and more efficient, and quite frankly, with more stealth. Nary a fingerprint, in part because we don’t brag and our victories will be measured in how much quieter, and more peaceful it has gotten out there, and not by the noise. But Oh, how the heathen will rage!

Networking with associated groups operating around the country, GAZ will let citizens know about every foot soldier, storm trooper, Wormtongue, and fifth columnist in every small community college, English department, county office building and union local in America, what they look like and their haunts. They will be known by their deeds.

We will have people in the field, at the ready, and as the year goes on those numbers will multiply, for people are tired of just sitting around being pissed of, doing nothing. People will be lining up once they know the game is afoot. And as Alinksy taught, they’ll never break a single law…except maybe in their hearts.

They will photograph, identify and track every Leftist and accomplice who ever carried a megaphone, drove a bus, toted a placard, wielded a lead pipe, turned over a wheel chair, bit off a finger, stuffed a ballot box, intimidated a voter, pushed an election watcher, or issued a permit to invade a man’s private property. Police chief’s and bad cops will have to dress up like dock workers just to get to work. Bureaucrats, professors and school officials will have to take the bus, or drive to the office in ’85 Celicas and students will have to call Mom for more money. Leftie school teachers will leave their jobs to open a Cut n’Curl in their garage. Our groups will be able to put 10-20-100 people at any public place on a few hours notice, sometimes carrying a Bible, and other times, a rolled-up newspaper. Sky determines.

Our people will be using the internet in those “other regards” just like the Left has done for many years, to facilitate pouring a bucket of cold water, having a chilling effect, deterring, intimidating, and yes, relentlessly pursuing the Left…wherever found; in their sewer, in their classroom, in their Volvo, or in their Tudor mansion…all with a cunning and derring-do of heroes of old, from Gideon to the Pimpernel.

We will fight Alinsky with Alinsky, or as I like to call it, V&A.

Yes, you can join up, only many of you already have. But we won’t be enlisting anyone over the internet without local vetting.

Money, money, money

This project won’t be inexpensive, but neither will it be expensive, at least not by Michael Moore bail-money-for-Assange expensive. We know exactly what needs to be done, and what it will take in dollars and cents to kick this can.

I’ll be at CPAC and would like to meet with any conservative donor who might be wondering what to do with his/her annual RNC contribution next year. That’s why I’m announcing this now. You can contact me through thesandsinstitute.org, where I can then send along phone links and contact information while in DC.

I’ll put a up a more concentrated post about re-directing conservative political spending in the week leading up to CPAC, as we have several things we’d like to talk to donors about on a variety of conservative projects. I always carry my begging bowl on behalf of others to these projects, only this time one of those projects will be me.

We can move mountains politically in the next year, but unless we meet the Left in their sewers and begin taking back the main highway by first running them off it, all our political victories will have gone for nil. That’s a law.

The fight starts here.

It’s been a rough week. First, assassinations spawned by left-wing “hate teach” (there, I said it again), followed by a hate campaign against the innocent for yelling “ouch” when they were blamed. Then both the Texas Speaker and the RNC chairman’s elections have proven that the messaging here at RedState isn’t always as powerful as we’d like to think it is. Were the Joe Strauss and Reince Priebus machines too big to corral? Had we misunderestimated (sic) them?

Or have we in fact, as the Left believes and is about to test, departed the field a little prematurely, assuming victory is ours at least until the primary season next year? Have we taken a holiday?

I’m reminded by LaborUnionReport…who I continue to say is writing the most prescient (and scary) news of things to come right now (on RedState or any other political forum)…that the heat of the past two years, and the most recent election cycle will be steered away from the White House and even Washington and move to places the media is not likely to magnify as closely. Places where the unions operate best.

It’s a feint. Media light will not be shined on this heat. In fact, you may have to go a London rag to find out what’s going on with labor in Ohio, or Oregon…or, just bookmark LUR’s home page and he’ll do that for you. In fact…my recommendation…go back a year and print everything LUR has posted here at RS, both diaries and Front Page articles, hole-punch them and put in a binder. Index according to tastes. Then you will be better informed than all but a few labor experts in the country. Moreover, you will see what’s coming even before Rush Limbaugh sees it, for what is coming will come from the places the unions hang out. bank on it. They will drive big events that no one will notice.

And the media will play its role accordingly, using mock outrage, such as the Arizona shooting, to turn public attention away from more important political events. And from the antics of Shep Smith last week, don’t look for any respite at FoxNews. Across the board, the media meme will be to cover up very, very important happenings inside the bureaucracies; the FCC, FTC, EPA, NLRB, the unions, and did anyone here know that Gates has declared North Korea an imminent threat to shoot missiles at the US? (h/t bobmontgomery).

And they will cover all this up with sensationalism and high political drama about what won’t even merit footnotes in history books, a feat at which Shep (and quite frankly Rupert Murdoch) excel.

Obama

Even before he announced changes in his White House staff, capped by former Morgan Chase exec William Daley taking over as Chief of Staff, it was figured that the WH would try to cosmetically position itself to the center. Makes sense. Why not? Call him incompetent if you want, but Obama & Co got more significant legislation…historic legislation…passed in two years than most presidents could accomplish in eight. (Or Clinton in sixteen.)

Obama has two years now to remain visibly passive while the past two years of effort work their way through the machinery of government, out of view of even an inquiring press. Even as the “repeal ball” is rolling in Congress, and will continue to roll for two more years, the “bureaucratic implementation ball” is rolling more quickly, so quickly that some say not even the most draconian of Congresses will have the nerve to fire all those people, once hired. Obama has already added 141,000 new federal employees, with another 125,000 in the pipeline. Fed employees making over $150,000 doubled. (And just imagine those pensions!)

Obama, as he is wont to do anyway, can throw his feet up on the desk, light one up, and do nothing except fly out to Hell’s Half Acre every two weeks or so and make a speech…and pass out tee shirts.

Last fall I had reduced Obama’ chances at running for a second term to 60% for what I believe to be very real mental problems. He’s not healthy, you can clearly tell. It could be from prior drug use, current prescriptions, or, as I claimed here before, a deep and abiding fear of work. The White House Insider, a possibly apocryphal source, says, plausibly, that Obama has been taking anti-depressants, the only side effects of which we can discern being those gaunt, indifferent eyes and an insatiable hunger for frequent vacations.

I’ve now raised those odds back up to 90%, since, unless we make him, Obama won’t have to work another day until after the 2012 convention.

Congress

Likewise for Congress. While we’re all praying for gridlock, accompanied by a constant banging on the Senate’s doors by the House, “Let me in whee-ooh, whee-ooh, whee-ooh, hoop-whee-ooh, Whee-ooh, whee-ooh, hoo-ooh-oop-whee-ooh, whee-ooh” (The Sensations, 1962) with legislation calculated to 1) annoy the hell out of Harry Reid, 2) remind folks back home that they’re keeping their promises and 3) drawing markers for real live legislation they can expect in 2013, once we get a new Senate and President…the Democrats in Congress, in unison, will be laying IED’s all along that path, just as they did in the wake of the murder attempt on Gabrielle Giffords last week.

Some of those road mines will be very serious, such as the proposed rules change in the Senate filibuster. And while we will study, rage and debate it here, as we already have, the media will paint this as little more than a housekeeping issue, worthy of no more than a mention on the back page. Shep won’t even talk about it. Charles will, but quite possibly, dismissively. Most Americans won’t even know about it until it is over…sort of like the RNC election on Friday.

And just wait until Darrell Issa and others start making inquiries into the conduct of some other members of Congress and the Executive the past few years that could end a few up in the pokey. The GOP will be looking for facts, the Democrats for theatre. The Democrats could win on style points unless our newbies in Congress, and the RNC, are prepared.

The Real War

All the while, the real war will have moved to Ohio, Indiana, Texas, and every union local in America, as LUR is laying out. And it has already moved to the bureaucracies, where executive orders can be “perceived” to overrule the powers of Congress and the Constitution…until the Court finally says no, they can’t, four-five years down the road…all hidden in the mist of boring, un-sexy, paper-pushing.

As before, the Left, at least a large portion of those not already on some level of the state’s payroll, has moved back underground, as they were during the Bush years. There are millions of dollars for them to distribute and spend, from sophisticated projects to corrupt a state’s voting system, all the way down to, yes, building bombs in basements, just as the Communists and anarchists are doing now in Europe, and Bill Ayers and others did in the 60s. Pipe cutters and other parts cost money.

Even if we aren’t asleep, we are still ill-prepared for this coming onslaught. The Tea Parties and other citizens’ efforts have been the greatest public uprising in American history, in part because the natural survival instinct in our people have been reawakened. And they’ve done everything by the book, both the Good Book and Book of Civil Decorum. But only this week has proved how much further we must still go. A crooked leftie is still running the legislature in Texas. Have Tux Will Travel is running the RNC. And ColdWarrior is still wandering around in the wilderness holding the key to American citizens’ final victory over the ruling class establishment, asking why no one gets it. His is the one sure way we can take back the political process from within the system, without having to resort to pitchforks.

If you do “political tithing”, tithe the Precinct Project these next 15 months. Hell, if you tithe at all, send it to CW, for he is doing more of God’s work right now that most preachers. I am sure God will approve.

But as I did during the election season, I’m getting the uncomfortable feeling a lot of people believe that Twitter, really nice looking websites, blogs, snappy diaries, articles, and television/radio advertising can turn this tide of the Left. This past week didn’t so much as show our impotence as it did to show out limitations. Would that 100,000 more would tune into RS each week. Maybe then Joe and Reince would be job hunting elsewhere. (If I were a green-mailer, I’d say RedState has that kind of potential to grow in size and influence.)

But the power of the internet is limited in this regard. The Left has known this for the longest time, and has been using the internet in other regards for years. I’ll speak to that at another time.

Just know we can’t “tweet and beat” the public unions. We can’t overturn the death grip the Left has over our universities and public schools, and the culture of hate they engender by writing diaries here, or letters to the editor. And we can’t root out the Left in their underground sewers with blogs, in part because the unions watch over the manhole covers, or haven’t you heard, the AFL-CIO, the staunchest of pro-American labor memberships, has finally made that nasty turn to Marx that the European Left has been waiting for since 1923. We have to meet them at the manhole covers, win, then seal them shut, leaving the rats to wander the catacombs of filth they’ve made for themselves.

First things first.

Right now we have to let them all know that we aren’t asleep, for they are becoming bolder every day under the assumption most of us have gone back home to put our little trophies on the mantle to admire.

I guess I’m in one of my “sally forth” moods again, but it seems to me our most pressing mission is to make sure the Left, in Congress and out on the hustings, and wherever SEIU and the others haunt, to know we are alert, aware, still with that mean look in our eye from just two months ago. We need to send a message. In fact, lots of them.

On the other hand, if you think the best way to win in 2012 is to rest our forces, or sneak up on them next year, the debate starts here.

Short answer, No. But they are afraid…and have been for years. Just not from the Right.

You may find it interesting that Democrat legislators, even progressives, fear the radical Left even more than Republicans do. And most Republicans are afraid of their own shadows.

So put behind you any speculation that Congress suddenly got a wake-up call in Tucson last week and now really wants 24/7 protection the same way a president does. They already know this kid in Tucson was just a whacked-out psycho and not the product of right-wing “hateful rhetoric”. But even as they know this…

…they also know that the shooting was “political”…for that kid escaped from a political asylum they created.

What the “respectable Left” fears very much is the culture of hate and outrage that caused that kid to turn his violence toward political figures. For that culture of hate today is their progeny. For the most part they were raised in it themselves, and this generation they’ve sired and nurtured. And they have profited from it. The problem is, they can’t always control it.

They’ve always known a few nutcases would escape the seine net. So what? Occurrences like this are bound to happen, they think.

This explains the theater, and the profit the Left would like to realize. This is why every talk show host, every editorial, every blog is aimed at either proclaiming innocence or pointing a finger of guilt at a thing both sides know isn’t true; that “harsh political rhetoric” drove this kid to murder. This has just been such a good political choreography, they have to keep playing the music. It has worked since the 1970s. Works every time, Republicans running for cover and conservative pundits getting all huffy when you point the finger at them.

Bottom line: congressional liberals are not one bit more afraid of the right, and right-wing loonies than they ever were…in part because there are so damned few of them compared to their own looney-Left.

But this theater also deflects from the root cause of these kinds of acts.

The other day I brought forward Ayn Rand’s essay “The Comprachicos” to provide some context to the Tuscon killings. I did that for a reason. “Hey, the kid’s insane,” we’re told. “He wasn’t manufactured.” Yes, in all likelihood he is insane, but very possibly not insane enough to escape the death penalty.

And besides, we’re told, he dropped through the holes in the safety net the mental health system has in place, not to mention parents in denial, an “in” with the county police, who turned their backs out of some yet unknown deference to that family, never acting on a string of prior outrages. Medication? Who knows?

So, how can all these fortuitous missteps combine to create a political crime?

Insanity cannot be taught, but hate can. And all sorts of serious psychopathic elements of a person’s character can be taught, so the distinctions are not always that clear. Every dog owner knows you can train a dog to be mean if you start when he’s a pup.

Ayn Rand pointed out the same fact about children. This is what she tried to tell us in 1970…

that an entire generation…actually two now…have been purposefully deformed and mangled mentally and emotionally from preschool on….by the state…for purposes that are political in nature. (My words, not hers)

They aren’t just taught to hate, they are taught what to hate, who to hate, and with a greater deal of specificity than most of us imagine. And once out of their reach, their “teachers” can rely on a predictable coarsening in the popular culture to accentuate that hate among those children as they grow older and circulate outside the incubator.

You can start a kid in preschool at four, split that group up into perhaps 3-4 tracks by the time they are seven, based on family circumstance and intelligence…then be sure that by the time they are 18, you  have 20-25% of the crop as certified haters…hating all the things you want hated. And these children are not usually the mental runts of the hatch. They are smart. Most will go to college.

By now, they’ve got this much almost down to a science. What can’t be controlled, of course, is that some will learn to hate things off-script. A few will escape the asylum altogether and find guns and go rogue. Still, this was not a giant experiment that went wrong. For the Left it was one that has been going very right for many years.

This act in Tucson was political because this kid targeted a political figure, after he had been the target of “hate speech” that was political in nature for probably as much as 15 years; from school, Madison Avenue, and the internet. All those outside forces can be found to have become interlinked in a rather predictable manner to have created a “a hater”. That he became a shooter was not in the plan.

In 1971 Don McLean declared the music to have died…in a field in Iowa in 1959, and not as some Liberals suggest, on a street in Dallas in 1962:

No angel born in hell
Could break that Satan’s spell.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite,
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died

And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.

I highlighted Ayn Rand’s essay because she chronicled the genesis of what we are seeing now, and also date-stamped it…over 40 years ago.

That same year, Atari gave the world Pong, then the joystick. Then Al Gore gave them the children the internet. In 1995 Bill Gate gave the children Windows, so soon their bedrooms were turned into virtual universes, light years away from reality; video games, television, internet, social networks, avatars, pornography, blogs and hate speech, with live video-cams included…while Mom brought in dinner on a tray. Today they can download that entire universe into a small hand-held moonraker no bigger than a wallet…so now they can go anywhere, everywhere, and still be alone in their universe. That smile you see as they text isn’t one of fondness or sentiment, but of instant gratification, as a dog grins when it is fed.

For the majority of this most recent generation, the X’ers, this was all just an entertainment, and those kids grew up and moved on. Hopefully to read a book from time to time. But for quite a few, a predictable few even, it seems, the rage turned inward. With some it was shared with the pack, (dailyKos et al, the potty-mouth networks), local rallies on campus, protests, also YouTube and Facebook. But others just “can’t get no satisfaction”. They have that itch they can’t scratch, that hole in their soul, that thirst which a few cusswords and pretend macho-talk of a true Halo Warrior just doesn’t quite quench.

But Ayn Rand was not really writing about this Jared Loughner. Who she was targeting is the cesspool from which he arose; the chattering filth and the relentless outrage…for that pit of  hate was created on purpose, and yes, for principally a political purpose. “The Comprachicos“ was not about the few who wandered off to shoot up a school, or try to assassinate a congress woman. She wrote about those who would stay and would turn out as planned…kids who were trained downward, deformed to develop primitive intellects, emotions, appetites and needs, but who could still get A’s and a front row seat at Wellesley. You see them every day if you visit the blogs and websites of the Left. They spew only hatred and rage. It is their mother’s milk. It’s why they breathe. You’ll find no paeans to a bluebird there, no poignant tales of times down at grandmas, no sentiment for any living thing or memory.

There are millions of them.

In the 1970s the editors at National Review often called these “alienists”, referring to those screaming children after they had gone to law school. Nader’s Raiders were prominent among them. And so was a young Hillary Rodham. So was Nobel Prize winner (for Insipidity) Paul Krugman. Screechers all, then and today. Haters all, then and today. They were almost all are from that first generation. Look to see who runs Congress today, from the Left. Senators Durbin and Schumer are also of those days. So was the (ex-)Lady Nan. All have used the language of hate in their professional careers, just as they were taught in the 60s. They were all the children Ayn Rand was writing about in 1970.

Now they have grown up, put on coats and ties, shaved, and nurtured into this world a new generation.  The beat goes on.

The progressive educators had picked their targets well.