Last year, before He was sworn in, we made several reports about what needed to be done, and when.
      Remember, this is an off-off-election year, which makes what I have to report all the more pleasing.
      We've been involved in a few regional grass roots groups, one of our "children" serving as a clearinghouse/networker for a Midwest city action group. Agitprop, we call them.
      Most cities now have several of these groups, all founded by local citizens. After only a few months they are now coordinating with one another, and joining together in several demonstrations, speeches. Virtually every week there is something going on. These events are drawing several hundreds to over a thousand spectators. Enthusiasm is rising, not falling. (We wrote last year about the effect "events" have on local politics, often never seen or reported, even in local media, and totally under the radar screen of national politicians.
      The good news is the GOP has not tried to co-opt these groups. In Virginia we're having a gubernatorial election and the parties are wrapped up in that, but elsewhere, the GOP and these groups are clearly operating on different planes. I think the GOP thinks they will win these votes anyway, so it's a win-win by staying back, but wait til next year's primaries. True leaders will emerge from these groups to challenge establishment Republican and Democrat in next year's primaries,  I promise. (In some respects it may be easier for "our people" to run as Democrats, to join, then take over, then expand the Blue Dog wing than it will be to reform the GOP...just a thought.)
      I'm ecstatic that things are turning out as they are.
     The temper is rising at a time when none of the political watchers are paying attention, as they think, being an off-year, this will all peter out over the winter. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. But we think the people are close to a Wild Bunch moment.
     What's this Wild Bunch moment? You all know about Fonzi's Jump-the-Shark moment, when you knew the "Happy Days" series had finally seen it last days. (Google it if you don't know what it means.)
     The Wild Bunch moment is more serious, and also more dangerous, for it signals a time when a person reaches a point where there's no going back, no retreat, no truce, no surrender.
     It's from the Sam Peckinpah film, 1969, in which a group of aging outlaws help a corrupt Mexican general steal some US Army rifles. I recommend you watch it just for the closing scenes. In the process of the heist the general catches one of the outlaws, a Mexican named Angel, stealing some of the guns to help his village in the mountains, and takes the kid and tortures him. His friends try to buy him back, but El Jefe refuses. They go off and get a little drunk, then decide to go take their partner back by force. There are only four of them.
     You can see that final Wild Bunch "moment" at YouTube. (8 minutes). The scene says it all. The Wild Bunch "moment" was when they instinctively killed the general, then knew there was no retreat, no surrender.
     Of course, they all die, but so do most of the Mexicans, hundreds in fact, so many that the villagers come in out of the hills and take over the town.
     One of our favorite Songs of the New Revolution can be seen from that film at YouTube, as well as that final Wild Bunch "moment".

     Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have both crossed their Wild Bunch moment, and deserve our prayers because of it There are others. They really are at risk. Their jobs, their fortunes, maybe even their property and freedom. Or worse.
     Many citizens are on the verge of doing the same.
     If that is to be, a few rules. 1) No weapons. The government is just looking for an excuse to declare martial law, call in the troops, or shoot back. In fact, look for some "lone gunman" or rent-a-mobs doing a reverse Tea Party, blaming you. It's a common gambit. 2). Be very public, and be in numbers. We like placards that go beyond mere Yes or No politics. Tell them to get lost, get out...and get a lawyer. Let them know you are coming to get them and it won't be over once they are out of office. Make them afraid, really afraid. Keep that mean look in your eye. Jaw set. Imagine you are going out back to shoot your favorite dog, who has rabies. Don't get angry. Don't lose it. Politician fear most the steel cold of resolve. 3) Be prepared to be arrested, and to take casualties. 4) Expect no help from the media, no matter how badly you're beaten, dragged or pistol-whipped.  Word will get around the way you get it around now, by word of mouth. (If this sounds like Martin Luther King, Jr...yes, it does.)
     We should be cautious, even a little afraid ourselves. But inasmuch as the Obamailis want the 2010 mid-terms to be meaningless by having in place by that time the legal infrastructure to take us down the road to an authoritarian dictatorship of one sort or the other, no matter what, we have to have our Wild Bunch moment sooner, not later. We have to force the crossroads. They did not plan on this summer being so hot. Keep it up. Keep it growing. Make Fall and Winter even hotter. Never stop...until they are out of power, and some are in jail.
      But we have to believe, as we have preached here time and again, when confronted with the jutted jaws and gritted determination of Good, Evil has to blink. We will win. Expect to get hurt.
      The only choice the Left has to make will be: At what price?
Vassar Bushmills