Like a lot of people you’ve been watching all this wondering if anyone is going to put a stop to it. As far as DC, you are right, we are alone. Like a lot of people you’ve been wondering how in the heck a Tea Party person or group can do anything effective against the onslaught. Waving signs at rallies is going to come up short. Vote ‘em out - who knows?
Something has changed for the better IMO. It is now becoming clear how “we the people” are going to fight this - states rights. The battle lines are being drawn at state borders and a number of states are telling the Feds “don’t tread on us.” Some states are saying you can’t make us buy federal health care, we’re taking care of our illegals problem, the usurper isn’t getting on the ballot in this state next time and more.
Those states are not going to go along with having their residents’ retirement accounts confiscated, farms taken over by Fed. food police and most importantly their armed citizens disarmed. They have drawn a line in the sand. It is starting in the court system but it probably won’t stay there. Counties within states can do the same thing. It’s a way to organize resistance and it is a way to win this fight that doesn’t depend on elections or the whim of a judge who may or may not respect the constitution and could very well be in the bag for Obama.
Most of us have not been raised as socialists who look to the government for all of our needs. Quite the reverse in most cases. Americans are not going to roll over and take it. I think many people would be willing to take up arms and risk dying rather than living in the country remade in the Obama vision. No way - they just need to see HOW to do it and the states are just now beginning to show them. Once enough people realize this, there is no way the Feds can win. After all, they’re not really Americans in any of the ways that count, are they?
Further, there are things that have been set up in the past year that barely received notice. Among them: The Council of Governors-formed by Executive Order consists of 10 Governors (Jan Brewer is one of those btw but hard to say for how long). The National Guard of the states has been, for all intents and purposes, nationalized, meaning that individual Governors cannot call up their national guard.
Currently, the DOJ is examining the newly signed AZ law. This is not for the purpose of ensuring that it is 'just' but rather, to exercise federal authority over a state.
With these things in place (to name only a couple) the states can do whatever they want and the Feds will do everything to dismantle their rights.
BTW, Missouri is working on the HC issue and the worms here are already screaming that Fed law will trump state law...even if voted in by the people.
I'm sorry to say I'm not as optimistic as you NB.