I am really having a hard time believing that Republicans don't grasp how destructive this is to the country, inside-the-beltway syndrome or not. The "stand back and let the Dems destroy themselves" strategy, and I am being generous by assuming that this is the strategy, is all well and good - but what about the damage done to us and our children in the meantime?

Enough "party of no" business - it is time to go on the offensive! We need leadership! Give us something to vote for conservative Republicans! And if you know of RINOs in your midst, expose them one way or another before the primary season is over! This is no time for politics as usual, the fate of the country is at stake. Restore liberty and restore America's greatness!!

That's great until they force unionize all the teachers, like they are doing with day care providers in Pennsylvania.

Kevin Jennings is apparently taking after his idol Gyorgy Lukacs, a Hungarian commie long ago who tried to radicalize mainly Christian Hungary by sexualizing the youth. The theory is that children who are exposed to sexual material at a young age are more likely to revolt against their parents and Christianity. Before radicalization must come demoralization and alienation. As Lenin put it, "A revolutionary is a youth devoid of morals." Unfortunately, Jennings probably didn't read on to the part in Hungarian history where the parents rose up in droves and helped to overturn the communist government of Bela Kun, himself a homosexual. That's what is good about progressives - don't know about and don't care about history.

Robob, great observations and allusions. The strategy is quite simple. There are two battlefronts in this political war: The Republican primaries, and general elections. We are moving into place at the precinct level to directly influence the primaries. Many thousands of us have volunteered to be "precinct captain" an often vacant low-level spot that influences the primaries. We plan to identify RINOs and fund their more conservative opposition, as well as fund more conservative candidates. (By "conservative" I mean fiscal conservative - the "moderate" and "independent" votes will be crucial to destroying the Democrats this November.) We are also planning to be visible at the local level in the run-up to the elections to prevent the media from framing us. The mismatch between the reality of good hard-working middle class Americans fed up with government and the media's smears of us will turn the voters against the Democrats and media even more. Unfortunately, the Republicans can do a lot of damage this November, but the election where Democrats will be absolutely gutted is 2012. The strategy is to stall, stall, stall until 2012 and then elect conservatives who will overturn, nullify, and repeal as much of the progressive agenda as possible.

Go to hell, progressives. This isn't beanbag for us either. You bet your ass we are doing "deep background" on every one of you scumbags. We are going to root you out and then we are going to end your careers. You can bank on that, baby!!

At the risk of sounding contrarian, I think Obama and the Democrats know exactly what they are doing. The Fabian socialists who are everywhere in the government have been incrementally pushing the U.S. toward the big power-grab for decades. Of course, it is going to be ugly. Of course, it is going to be messy. Will that stop the Democrats from carrying out their destructive agenda? Of course not.

The fallacious trap that most conservatives fall into is in believing that the great majority of Americans think the United States is a country worth preserving as it was founded. The institutions, traditions, and culture that once made America great is obviously the path towards restoring national greatness. Well, the problem is that progressives don't see any such "national greatness," only sins of the past, such as imperialism, neo-colonialism, slavery, what-have-you. From their idealistic totalitarian viewpoint (and it is quite totalitarian as an accurate descriptor), any evidence of wrong-doing is a sign that the entire system is corrupt and needs overhauled.

Another huge problem is that progressives see themselves as simply smarter than conservatives, and therefore they don't need to take their warnings seriously. Their years of school and college indoctrination insulate them in a warm and fuzzy blanket of smugness, which is difficult, if not impossible, to get through. This narcissism is why they will burn the system down; they believe that they can build it back up: Bigger, better, and more just.

Progressives also adhere to a mentality that sees any objections to their "noble" dreams as inherently "reactionary." Socialists, for example, predict that the "bourgeoisie" or middle class would bridle when the socialist revolution comes. This gives the rationalization to proceed without any heed for objections from the ideologically dehumanized middle class.

In sum, the Democrats will move ahead, with healthcare, with climate change legislation, with immigration "reform," with card-check, and with the inevitable censorship and the disregard for civil liberties that will necessarily follow.

The big question is, can the Democrats get away with it in a country that is majority conservative? Remember, the Nazis had the majority of Germans on their side with the scapegoating of the Jews and the Slavs, and the Bolsheviks captured Russia in a putsch after war had decimated the country, the Tsar had abdicated, and the provisional government had failed.

In the U.S., we now have a strong and vibrant opposition mounting, a bare majority of Americans sympathetic to the ideals of liberty and freedom, and a U.S. military that can hardly be characterized as an unthinking tool of the state. It is one thing for a military and secret police to take on a minority or to go after isolated peasants, or small partisan armies. It is quite another to take on hundreds of millions of people, tens of millions quite adequately armed and more than willing to defend themselves.

If Obama and the Democrats could crush the American people right now and take full control of the state in perpetuity, they would. Right now they are more than satisfied to continue demoralizing the nation, precipitating crises, destroying the currency, and waiting patiently for the conflagration that will ostensibly justify the declaration of martial law.

StanLee, in case you haven't noticed, your beloved Democrats are trampling the Constitution, which is the one and only source of authority in the United States. If the Democrats continually flaunt our nation's founding document, they are no less than usurpers, traitors, and thieves, and thus are no different than any other citizens. Their legal-rational authority becomes nullified.

If a thief broke into your home, your sovereign territory, wouldn't you have the right to defend yourself and your property? How is it any different with Democrats, who have infiltrated the highest seats of power in the land, and are now wantonly abusing their positions to engage in massive theft, fraud, and corruption on a scale that now threatens the republic?

It is no longer a given that one can brandish those who oppose the federal government's power grab, by any rational available means possible, terrorists. We are approaching the situation where rational self-defense on the part of those who value their own freedom and the freedom of their posterity may be warranted. Not senseless violence, not random acts of outrage, rational self-defense.

There comes a point in nearly every nation's history when elites attempt to make a power grab. In the U.S., this is even more dangerous than in past nations, because of the means available to the state for social and economic control. In the U.S., we are faced with a true fascist regime equally as dangerous as the Nazis, in my humble opinion. Not only are the platforms of the Democrats and Nazis comparable, except in nationalist orientation of the latter (nationalism being just one garden variety strain of collectivism), but the drive toward complete social, economic, and private control are analogous.

When the Democrats want to control what cars we drive, what we eat, what kind of medical care we get, how much toilet water we can use, and what kind of lightbulbs we have in our house, what else can this be but totalitarianism? If you are not able to understand how this is fundamentally wrong, then you sir, are a totalitarian yourself (and perhaps proud of it).

Read about Virginia passing a law to tell Obama that his Chicago thug politics don't play in the birthplace of liberty. It would thwart any mandate for a citizen of Virginia (that's right - citizen of Virginia) to be mandated to buy healthcare insurance.

Susan Swift, will you make me the happiest patriot in the world and be my wife?

But were they really "bad guys"? Or was there just a few nefarious, but slightly cool Soviet characters interwoven into the plot?