Write the book…. before The 1st Amendment is cancelled.

I’ll take copy #3 – Your first guaranteed sale. How much? I’ll send it now.

Copy #1 is for your wife and #2 is yours for framing.

Cheers !

I haven’t heard that word in months, but I found myself using revanchist earlier today – and lo and behold, you title this diary with that word.

Good start on a game plan. The preliminary issues, as I see it, include these:

1) We have to recognize that we’re engaged in a war for the future of American, that we’re not just dealing with normal give and take of a stable two-party system, but that we’re dealing with actors who essentially are trying to set in place irreversible changes in our political process to perpetuate a one-party system.

This was something that John McCain just could not understand during his campaign, that the rules had changed, and that in Obama and the people behind him, it wasn’t business as usual. Or to use modify a popular phrase at RedState: John McCain brought a kitchen knife to a gun fight

One reason our situation is so dire is that many of our representatives in Congress don’t recognize that the rules have changed. I think with this stimulus bill, the House Republicans are perhaps just starting to catch on, but we have too many Senators who still think we’re under the ancien regime and just gave the keys to the Bastille to the Jacobins.

Will the stimulus bill wake them up our Senators? So far, not enough. John McCain and Graham recognized a change, but whether they will be soothed back into seeking “bipartisanship” to give away the rest of the fort, or are ready to fight is unclear, but I would put my bets on the former.

2) Recognizing that we’re in a war – or as you more accurately identified it, a coup d’état – we need to identify who are reliable troops on our side, who is recruitable, and where we can set up our defense positions (as the enemy has the initiative).

I think your right that in term of strategy, we need to take our stand primarily at the state level. That is where we’re going to find our most reliable troops and allies and where we can maintain and strengthen our supply lines and production facilities.

It’s also, and this is something that too many at RedState and among conservatives, where the decisive battles to save our nation are going to be fought. The Democratic putschists know this and are marshalling their forces to dominate local and state politics because they know that if they control the grass roots, then Republicans will wither away, because we won’t have people to rise through the ranks to be credible political candidates. No opposition candidates, no counter revolution.

And the whole card check/RTW repeal is designed to enable a local union machine structure to dominate local politics and states by swamping the opposition with money and troops. While the conservatives and Republican may be able to marshall money and manpower for federal elections (though I have my doubts), we are in deep trouble for the local/state battles if the Democrats are allowed dominance via card check/RTW repeal.

That means an honest look at our resources under the new regime and see where we can maintain a credible base of operations.

3) I do think we need to hold lines in Washington so long as we can successfully resist card check/RTW repeal. Which is why we need to bash into our Republicans in Washington the absolute need to hold the line against card check/RTW repeal. Not to mention we need to do rear guard actions against the DOJ and judical appointments.

But we do need to carry the fight to the state level. Which means changing the mindset of too many of our Republican state parties to recognize that they hold the future of our country and that they need to carry the battle to the enemy so long as they have the tools to do so – and to do what they can to prevent the laws from being changed.

Of course, that’s what you and Warner Huston have been beating the drum on. We are in grave peril at the state level. And if the Democrats get 37 states along with 2/3rds in the House and Senate, then it will be over.

That’s enough for now…

Just kidding. Well done, achance.

Republicans don’t traditionally excel at this kind of fighting in close quarters.

Circumstances dictate that we learn to do things that Republicans don’t normally do.

The fight for card check will be bigger and even more important than the stimulus battle. We need to form a plan now and get everyone on board.

and all that.

This really is going to be Agincourt. So few, so very few.

That was Henry’s equalizer against superior numbers.

What is today’s analog to long bows?

n/t

You won me over with the Henry V speech. (I’m a sucker for St. Crispin).

Can’t wait for the book. You have a really good mind for the political reality and you are a good strategist. If I ever run i would want you on my campaign.

Thanks for this diary Art, I was really needing something like this.

Can’t wait for the book.

The political clout and money of the unions, especially government employee unions like AFSCME and the NEA and its’ progeny are probably the strongest weapons in the left’s arsenal and must be defeated. They will continue to bleed the taxpayers of this country dry as long as they have their proxies in government to keep voting them ever more lucrative compensation and protection from accountability.

Revanchism? Hell yes! Sign me up. We are not wack- jobs but liberty loving patriots!

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.”

John Locke

Before this is all settled, it is going to get REALLLLLLLLY messy.

You had me eating out of the palm of your hand till the following:

If you’re not an income tax state – listen Governor Palin – pass an income tax that singles them out and taxes all that wonderful tax free money they get from elsewhere.

The dig at Palin aside I don’t want an income tax in Texas thank you very much even if it is narrowly targeted at so called non profits because no matter how narrowly it is targeted…it’s the camels nose under the tent…but I’m sure Texas could find plenty of leeway in the property and sales tax laws ti stick them on their property or services they perform in return for “donations” asked for in specific amounts.

Anyway…great post dispite that one quibble!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

you made me go for my dictionary.

::reads dictionary::

I’m just so heartened to see that you will be writing on this.

The book I am reading right now (Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama) is (so far as I have read now) taking the view that the Dutch revolution could have achieved more if they had attacked and won at the national level, a la the French and Bolshevist Revolutions which proceeded apace by their grand takeover of the national government. (SOUND FAMILIAR?)

Instead the Dutch concentrated and organized locally. It’s pretty interesting stuff to me because I did not know anything about the Dutch R. til now.

Please let all of us know if there is anything we can do (short of bribing publishers) that will help.

I was pretty disgusted, and I will not write a book, so I picked up a book about a Republican Revolution in the Netherlands in the late 18th Century. All that talk about citizen militias and broadsides was inspiring.

And oh, yes! yes! yes! yes! The coup d-etat is all but a fait accomli. Why the hell else would all of us whack jobs be grabbing our muskets?

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The political clout and money of the unions, especially government employee unions like AFSCME and the NEA and its’ progeny are probably the strongest weapons in the left’s arsenal and must be defeated. They will continue to bleed the taxpayers of this country dry as long as they have their proxies in government to keep voting them ever more lucrative compensation and protection from accountability.

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The biggest problem is closing the revolving door. With all the talk about bows and arrows here, the reality is to use the courts. Though there is some problem with the state courts being equally corrupted, there is some cance of making the uninons implode under the weight of their own hypocracy.

The rule with the likes of AFSCME is that they defend the dregs of pubilic employment by retribution against the meritous employees that express concern about the workplace, and that have a particular unit member in mind who is directly responsible. They won’t call a felony a felony when they see it, and therefore they are responsible for subverting the law. The ultimate tool for this is high up in the Federal Court, which is a trick in itself (if not impossible) to accomplish if the defendant is a state or state agency. The typical thing an AFSCME Business Agent wants to go after is something like mold an a wall that might make people sick, not one of their members.

The Union uses it’s members as henchmen and after pumping them with knowlege of indemnity clauses, probably eggs on continued bad behavior by its member assasins who become part of schemes of retaliation against the meritous employee.

The Unions also use extortion to encourage the employer to hire up a good Business Agent who has many claims against an agency. Likewise, a state dysfunctional (or criminal) state manager is a preferred revolving door hire for a Union. They get to poo-poo their own transgressions from their state employment days as a union official. Often these “HR professionals” move from state to state, bringing and installing their broken policies. Washington is a good example where new HR managers came in and began threatening and firing employees under their new AFSCME contract. NRTW was not to happy about that.

There are some good people taking action everywhere, though. Here is one website I just found that has several people with a gripe with AFSCME Local.

http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2006/05/17/open-letter-to-rank-and-file-members-of-afscme-local-2938/

and their relevance to our situation. They were always towards the top of my “enemies” list. I appreciate your perspective.

I believe the control of Academia and the media by the Left has made those entities, to steal a phrase from Communism, the “opiate of the masses” of today. They are in control of the message that the ‘average’ person acts upon. I don’t have a game plan to implement against them (yet) in concert with yours against the unions. But I am all ears for one from somebody with expertise in those areas.

Tennessee has no income tax (except for the Hall Income Tax on interest from bonds and dividends from stock), I want to keep it that way. I don’t want to open the door for future shenanigans regarding taxes that we can’t get rid of. Perhaps there are other avenues to impact the revenues of non-profit orgs? Certainly they need to be reined in from their current carte blanc status.

Great post, Art. Sorry I showed up late to the discussion. Recommended at any rate.

1. I wasn’t going to recommend it when I first opened it because it has so many recommends it will be on the top of the list forever. Then I read it and I want it on the top of the list forever. So recommended.

2. I want one of your books autographed please.

3. I wish we still had Matt Blunt and not the double speaking Jay Nixon as Gov. I’m not sure Matt Blunt had enough guts to do it, but I’m positive Nixon will be complicit in the shenanigans. Sigh.

4. Now I’m going to go read the comments.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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However given the true severity of the situation, I am even more amazed that you will put it right on on Redstate. Considering what they did to Joe the Plumber, you know that this very minute – indeed from the moment that it was originally posted that they were looking for the man behind the nome d’guerre. Like the old Weather undergound we will soon be finding ourselves organizing safehouses and places for the activists to hide.

Recognizing and telling the truth are certain to have their consequences in Obama’s America.

YOU DID AN AMAZING JOB ON THIS, BROTHER.

AS YOU CAN NOTICE, I’M SHOUTING, LASHING MY GUTS OUT JUST TO HELP YOU REACHING OUT THE CONCERNED REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES, ESPECIALLY THE LEADERS.

Yes, this bitter advice includes Sarah Palin. And she better listen to you bro.

Congrats.

But then again it may go faster than any of us expect. It is clear that Obama did not expect the resistance which he has already received and the plummeting of his approval rating indicates that people are already beginning to get it.

At the moment we lack the White Knight to lead us, a result of the fact that Bush and company did not plan for a succession unless it was intended to be Jeb and he backed out. So we are going to have to go with hobbits, dwarves, and elves while hoping for the appearance of a Strider who may never appear.

But we can and indeed we must listen to the sages and always be prepared to enlighten even the people we meet in public on the Truth of what is going on. Talk to folks you don’t know and may never see again. Don’t let them be as dumb as those who voted for the Messiah!

Ron Paul’s organization, is still functioning and is growing stronger every day. Now I know a lot of people here did not agree with Paul, especially on foreign policy, but he is the highest ranking government official who CLEARLY UNDERSTANDS THE ROLE OF THE CONSTITUTION in the federal government. I encourage everyone here to check the website http://www.campaignforliberty.com and consider joining, before things get much worse.

NOW is the time to organize, not because Obama is president but because the country is on a course from which it cannot be changed without massive action, first on the local level and then the state level. Washington cannot be fixed until the states stand up to it. I have recently signed up to be a precinct leader in me area for the organization. Please consider doing so in your area.

We must all unite under one banner, the NRA, Redstate, Free Republic, Libertarians, and Campaing for Liberty. We can still turn this country around. That may not be the case in a few years.

LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC!

That is one of my new favorite words.

Dude, I am ALL about this. This has become about survival, and I’m already ‘all in’, in the poker sense.

if all you Paul supporters realized just how bad an Obama administration would be before the election. Rather than voting for Barr or Baldwin, or writing in Paul’s name, or staying home because your principles would not allow you to vote for McCain may not have gotten McCain elected, but it would surely have helped with the message. Now it seems you all are coming back and attaching yourselves to the Republicans you just couldn’t support before. For God sakes, Paul ran as a Republican, yet you all just couldn’t get on board. Sometimes you people make me more angry than the Obama supporters. What exactly is it now that the Republican party is offering to make you change your minds?

if all you Paul supporters realized just how bad an Obama administration would be before the election. Rather than voting for Barr or Baldwin, or writing in Paul’s name, or staying home because your principles would not allow you to vote for McCain may not have gotten McCain elected, but it would surely have helped with the message. Now it seems you all are coming back and attaching yourselves to the Republicans you just couldn’t support before. For God sakes, Paul ran as a Republican, yet you all just couldn’t get on board. Sometimes you people make me more angry than the Obama supporters. What exactly is it now that the Republican party is offering to make you change your minds?

I am late to the party with your diary as I just thought it would be another Palin whatever. I was so wrong. Put me on the list for a first publication when you finish your book.

In VA, currently we are a right to work state. How do I even begin to propose your ideas to what I hope will soon be a Republican Governor in 2009? I believe our state legislature is still a Republican majority. Please get going on that book as soon as you can so I know how to approach them with your ideas. Holy crap Achance, this is the first concrete solid idea I’ve heard yet. I don’t blame you for wanting to be paid for years of knowledge. Thanks for opening up.

While reading an article about Jeb Bush written by Fred Barnes, I found the following pair of paragraphs interesting:

But with a few adjustments, the GOP can become a modern reform party. “I don’t think there’s anything that holds us back,” he says. “I think we’re actually well positioned to do exactly that.” Mr. Bush would stand the party on its head by de-emphasizing Washington and mounting “a real effort to play offense outside of Washington in advancing a reform agenda. I think a respectful, policy-oriented opposition in Washington will be quite effective.” But the states are where “being able to change things is easier to do.”

This approach “worked in the early 90s,” Mr. Bush says. “We had some fantastic governors who were my role models.” He mentions his brother when he led Texas, John Engler of Michigan and Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin. “We had an all-star team.” He likes the current crop of Republican governors, including Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Haley Barbour of Mississippi.

great post, highly recommended.

Looks like I’ll need to come back this evening to finish my lunch hour reading.