Kesler at Concord?

Danny Glover’s Beltway Blogroll buzz column for National Journal begins:

At 10:49 a.m. on Saturday, May 13, Bruce Kesler of Democracy Project fired the rhetorical shot heard ‘round the conservative blogosphere.

Glover recounts the discussion among some conservative bloggers over the past week or so about “What’s A Conservative To Do?,” the title of Glover’s piece.

Actually, it was much less a Concord engagement than a pre-revolutionary tea party among friends. None are favorably disposed toward the bluebloods in Washington.

None, yet, are disposed toward open rebellion either. Rather, all are disposed toward exercising more vigorously their rights as free men.

If we ever reach a later point, “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…”, it will not be due to our failure to seek constructive resolutions, but to the self-interested obstinacy of rulers who have lost sight of our bonds, our binding principles.

Thanks to Mark Tapscott for sounding the tocsin, to “Captain” Ed Morrissey for sound leadership, Hugh Hewitt for a lawyerly eye for judicial detail, and Steve Bainbridge for (IMHO) going too far toward Sleepy Hollow. As for me, I’m not ready to leave the beach and perfect weather of San Diego for Concord. However, I do enjoy a good tea with my friends.