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Back in the heady early days of GW's first term, a redoubtable Bush trooper, Jim Nazios, was tasked with "reforming" or something, the USAID/State Department/NGO amalgam that was literally spending billions every year with no oversight, no documentable results, and according to vague and UN-inspired agenda.

The wildly outspoken left-wingers of this community resisted his efforts with all of their politically correct and politically connected might and merely went into their bureaucratic bunkers until GW went away and his people stopped annoying them. In the meantime, the junketing, the meaningless but elaborate meetings in top international resorts, the incredibly high salaries, the incestuous revolving door between favored FSO's, the NGO community, and UN committees continued unabated. Their projects, which have no beginning, no middle, and certainly never an end, live on and flourish on our dime. Results? The only one I ever saw was an elaborate lifestyle enjoyed by those in charge.

Very Typical Example: A 2-week meeting on the AIDS Situation in Africa was held in Phuket, Thailand. Official results: "If an African Child loses both parents to AIDS, it seems that ... gasp ... that child will be considered an "orphan," according to WHO/UN Guidelines." Of course, the NGO representatives did not return home after this conference, but instead went to WHO HQ in Lausanne to review these earth-shattering findings with UN representatives. On and on for 8 years.

Question: If GW's first administration, which if one recalls, had both Houses, could make no headway against this entrenched cartel, how specifically are we to "Defund The Left," which has been building this juggernaut since the 1930's?

The Federal Government operates on its own, and is 100% Left-Wing from top to bottom in every agency ... with the possible exception of a few Mormon FBI agents! The higher echelon of DC is staffed today by the grandchildren of loony-left socialists who literally came to town with FDR. Your elected Republican Representative in all likelihood staffs his DC operation with them!

We can do very little about the Democrat Party. What we can do is figure out how to lay the moribund Republican Party to rest with minimal long-term damage. The Republican Establishment long ago traded safe seats for complaisance. I have no idea how to fix something like a Boehner. I have no idea how we are supposed to resist the dominant ideology.

The only glimmer of hope for constitutional principle rests in the arduous task of reforming state and local goverments in those areas in which an intelligent electorate can still be found.