Just so no one thinks this will be a cakewalk, or one of those three-punch, thirty second knock-outs come November 2010.
     There are three, more likely four, armies we will have to confront, in succession, sort of like moving up in rank in a video game, if we are indeed going to restore the Constitution, its vision, and the proper role of the people in this Republic.
     The political fight is but the first one, and by far the easiest. We are all marching toward that show-down now, but we must know all those armies are arrayed against us, each defending his piece of territory.
     It's true...nothing gets done without first throwing out the crooks in Congress, who are both shields and conspirators with genuine criminals.
     But from the actions of the President in announcing his czars, and the ideological make-up of that group, to Eric Holder and his mission against national security, it as also clear that the White House has created its own nest of vipers, standing aside from the usual suspects in Congress.
     So even as we prepare for this fight in 2010, we must make plans for 2012, for none of this can be undone without sweeping both.
     And we're not even sure we have a party yet, let alone named leaders.

     But if we win, there is then the many legal battles that will follow. Our new replacements in Congress, and hopefully the White House will have to run specifically on the foundation of sweeping out the old, top to bottom. So learn to fight dirty. Call down the thunder. Tell them we are coming for them, and tell them all to get lawyers or plane tickets to countries with no extradition treaties.

     This is when we will run into the real armies, the ones with tire chains, guns and knives, real firepower plus lots of lawyers. There are more than one, for you see, while there were always men waiting out there to seduce a congressman with a bribe from the first days of the republic, the nature and content of those crimes and ciminals has changed.
     There have always been business interests seeking special favors from government, so many, that all have been conveniently dumped into the same whiskey barrel so as to protect any and all who might wish to take a dram. The Constitution allows, even encourages citizens to petition government, and lobbyists, (what the other side calls "special interests") are the natural creation of that right. Most business interests speak for thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of citizens.
     For the longest time these lobbyists spoke for working citizens, but in the last forty years there has arisen lobbysists of equal strength speaking for the non-working citizens, some of whom are genuinely helpless. It has generally been the clash between these two armies that has created the perfect storm from corruption among Congress and government employees, for both these armies have at their hearts ideologies that are antithetical to one another...free markets and statism.
     It has been a win-win for Congress, for it allows them to both lambaste special interests, while giving them their ear....and their favor.
In the process there has arisen in Congress the same sort of person who has taken over corporate America the past twenty years...men and women who came to town with the specific purpose of gaming the system, and coming away rich for the effort.
     In the past Congressmen were merely seduced, like lonely husbands away on a business trip, but now they come with briefcases and flies open, looking for brothels. I am quite certain John Murtha was a bandit with larceny on his mind before he ever came to Washington. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been the personal piggy-bank of the Congressional Black Caucus for years. Entire states have been corrupted, or almost, (New Jersey), so that not even a local councilman or state office holder can be elected without falling into the web. And even the most straight and narrow Republican now just stands around, first with deer-in-the-headlights disbelief, then with the quiet understanding that even he benefits from this crime ring. So he shuts up. He yells and bellows on cue, but has yet to back up to the pay window on pay-day. From time to time a lone Congressmen will retire back to Texas just as broke as when he started, but that is the rare, rare exception. Not knowing how to fight back, most just lift that barge and tote that bale, and take very long showers at night.
    So even if we win in 2010 and 2012, and can undo legally what has been wrought, various crime factions have hung a collar of fire around Congress that will remain. That collar of fire will also have to be dealt with, knowing it is the criminal side who will determine the stakes in the fight. "Guns or knives, Butch."
    Then there is that "other" more ideological army we will have to contend with. They were always there, too, for as I've written, the hatred for the American can-do attitude and freedom predates America and Karl Marx by two thousand years. Only in this White House they come in full dress get-even regalia. And they are armed. We have run into a few at some town halls, union thug hirelings. And they have their own business alliances with business. Obama just gave George Soros two billion for off shore drilling in Brazil. They own their own banks, car companies, and oil and steel can't be far behind. They have the ability to put any company now, or even entire business lines, out of business if given the "special license" to do so with enabling health care legislation.
    And as I am sadly finding out in my travels, they "own" small business by having taken them from the fight on the mistaken belief 1) the economic recovery is just around the corner, 2) that it will fix everything, and 3) the economy is still subject to the law of free market economics...instead of the laws of political expedience.

    I don't want to frighten you. This is just how it will be. I still think Washington had the tougher problem at Brooklyn Heights, but he also knew what lay ahead. Gird yourselves.
    And watch yer topknot.
Vassar