When was the meeting?

I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but I have to wonder when the Republicans held a meeting to coordinate their current attacks on most all of the good things about government and modern life that we have taken for granted for the last 60 years.

 Did they meet secretly in Biloxi, Mississippi, in late November of last year, after the election? Perhaps with a visit to the home of Jefferson Davis? That would have been appropriate, since much of the ideology pushed by the Tea Party and their radical Republican allies has roots in the old Confederacy. States rights? 10th Amendment? The South will rise again!

 I imagine the meeting went something like this: Okay, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, you're going to take the lead. First you'll blow a hole in your state's budget with new tax cuts for business, then you'll cry poverty and declare the "only" option for fixing it is to emasculate your public worker unions. Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, you'll announce that education is not a "core function" of state government and that you are stripping nearly a billion dollars in state funding from the public schools, and cutting state support of public universities by a half. At the same time, you will refuse to consider taxing Marcellus Shale gas extraction, as every other state does, or even a modest, temporary increase in your state income tax.

And so on, and so on. It's a creeping, silent coup, folks. Wake up.