From NRO’s The Corner:

Tonight, three conservative Democrats — Reps. Dan Boren (Okla.), Mike Ross (Ark.) and Mike McIntyre (N.C.) — joined Republicans in voting to repeal Obamacare.

But 10 of their colleagues who opposed the bill back in March — Reps. Ben Chandler (Ky.), Jason Altmire (Pa.), Jim Matheson (Utah), Heath Schuler (N.C.), Larry Kissell (N.C.), Tim Holden (Pa.), John Barrow (Ga.), Collin Peterson (Minn.), Stephen Lynch (Mass.) and Dan Lipinski (Ill.) — voted against repeal.

“At least we once and for all know where they truly stand,” said Alex Cortes, chairman of DefundIt.org…

Indeed, we do – and now we’ve got even more ammunition to beat these Representatives in 2012. Our campaign that year, aside from concentrating on the abysmal failures of President Obama, should tie in the need for big Republican Congressional majorities to ensure that real reform happens.

This is the point of the repeal vote – not that we expect to obtain repeal while Obama is President, but that we show the American people we’re serious about doing their political will. Now that we’ve done it, the argument for us easily shifts to, “we need more help in DC to get the peoples’ business done”. These ten faux-moderate Democrats are the best means the GOP can use to build in our 2010 victories in the House…just as any Democrats who vote against cloture in the Senate will be our best means of getting a GOP majority there.

The ball is in our court and things are clearly moving our way – all we have to do is keep pressing the reform issue. Democrats dare not allow the reforms to pass, because any real reform means that Democrat special interests will lose money and/or power…but as they fight a rear guard action for the Ruling Class, they’ll be digging their own political grave. The next 22 months are, I think, going to be a lot of fun for Republicans on the political level.

More and more good news – from National Journal:

Tuesday’s announcement that Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., will not seek reelection—with Sen. Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., following suit today—accelerates an already rapid rate of turnover in the Senate that is altering the body’s composition and its leadership.

The last two elections cycles produced about one-third of the current members of the Senate: There have been 32 new senators sworn in since 2008, which represents the fastest turnover rate since the 1978 and 1980 elections, which together added 38 new members…

Other possible retirements could be Jim Webb (D-VA); first elected in 2006, John Kyle (R-AZ); first elected in 1994, Ben Nelson (D-NE); first elected 2000, Dianne Feinstein; first elected 1992 (D-CA), Daniel Akaka; first elected 1990 (D-HI) and Richard Lugar; first elected 1976 (R-IN) – none of whom would be missed much, except for Feinstein who is probably the last adult member of the Democrat Senate caucus. Webb and Nelson will probably quit because they are almost certain losers in 2012 (this is why Lieberman and Conrad hung it up), while Lugar is already starting to feel the TEA Party heat (as is Sen. Hatch of Utah). The more of these worn out, has-been politicians we can get out, the better for America.

As a nation, we face a crisis larger than any we’ve seen since the Civil War. Not even the risks and threats of World War Two and the Cold War compare to the perils we’re now in. We’re facing national bankruptcy, a rising challenge from an increasingly aggressive China, continual threats from Islamo-fascism and a declining economy which is less and less able to provide for the American people. The political barnacles listed above have held positions of great authority and influence through this time of American decline, and they bear a large share of responsibility for it. That they, to a man and woman, probably don’t even recognize the baleful effect they have had just magnifies the reasons for getting rid of them.

Pretty much anyone who is seeking a third term should definitely face a primary challenge – and you liberals out there should make sure you do the same for your side (though I doubt you will, as you lack that independence of thought which would convince you to challenge your leadership). – if they cannot be convinced to retire. We don’t need and can’t afford the old ways of doing business. We need dynamic, new leadership which can see the problems we face while not be tied to corrupt, political deals of the past.

It is time to renew America – and a good place to start is with our politicians.

In stark contrast to the story of conversion yesterday, here is a story of the utter horror of abortion:

A (abortionist) whose abortion clinic was described as a filthy, foul-smelling “house of horrors” that was overlooked by regulators for years was charged Wednesday with murder, accused of delivering seven babies alive and then using scissors to kill them.

(Abortionist) Kermit Gosnell was also charged with murder in the death of a woman who suffered an overdose of painkillers while awaiting an abortion…

In the MSM story they describe this man as a “doctor”, but that isn’t accurate. No doctor would ever perform an elective abortion. Period.

There is more and more of this out there, mark my words – people who make money off of death will not be honest and will not be competent.

The Grand Jury report is terrible to read – quoted at The American Catholic:

…One woman, for example, was left lying in place for hours after Gosnell tore her cervix and colon while trying, unsuccessfully, to extract the fetus. Relatives who came to pick her up were refused entry into the building; they had to threaten to call the police. They eventually found her inside, bleeding and incoherent, and transported her to the hospital, where doctors had to remove almost half a foot of her intestines.

On another occasion, Gosnell simply sent a patient home, after keeping her mother waiting for hours, without telling either of them that she still had fetal parts inside her. Gosnell insisted she was fine, even after signs of serious infection set in over the next several days. By the time her mother got her to the emergency room, she was unconscious and near death.

A nineteen-year-old girl was held for several hours after Gosnell punctured her uterus. As a result of the delay, she fell into shock from blood loss, and had to undergo a hysterectomy.

One patient went into convulsions during an abortion, fell off the procedure table, and hit her head on the floor. Gosnell wouldn’t call an ambulance, and wouldn’t let the woman’s companion leave the building so that he could call an ambulance…

This is what happens at our abortuaries – perhaps this one is exceptionally more disgusting than others, but all of them are a patch of dark night; a bit of inhuman savagery allowed in to our civilization…allowed in so that we may be coarsened and de-humanized; to become fit subjects for masters to rule over.

End abortion, now. Is this not enough of this crime?

It is now two years since we swore Obama in as President – and thus two more years before we swear in his replacement.

Can we?

Yes we can!

Didn’t last very long:

A House Democrat compared Republicans to one of the most reviled Nazis during World War ll– ignoring efforts on both sides of the aisle to tone down the political rhetoric.

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, used a late night House floor speech Tuesday to hit Republicans for what he called “lies” about a government takeover of the health care system, and evoked Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels…

It should be noted that the health care repeal passed by a wider margin that the imposition of health care…so, I guess a majority of Americans are Nazi, in Cohen’s view…

So, when do Democrats start knocking it off with the heated rhetoric?

Showing that there is nothing which can’t be cured in this world – from the National Catholic Register:

Last night, on the eve of the release of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson’s book Unplanned, she revealed during a webcast what she had witnessed during her eight years of volunteering and working with Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. Over 21,000 people listened to that webcast. In 2009, after witnessing an ultrasound-guided abortion, Johnson resigned her position and became pro-life. She is planning to come into the Catholic Church this coming Easter…

Do read the whole thing where Johnson describes that ultra-sound abortion and what she saw, and why it made her change course.

There is no justification for elective abortion – not ever. You can’t justify it on moral grounds, on practical grounds or on medical grounds. Abortion is a wicked fraud which has as its primary victims women and children – in other words, precisely those we are supposed to defend against evil. It has to end – and, step by step, that day is coming closer…as more and more people, like Abby Johnson, discover the truth about abortion.

For all you liberals out there, here is the man you should use as your role model:

…Why do I defend Palin in this case? I don’t agree with her political philosophy: She is an arch conservative. I am a liberal with sanity. I know that I am setting myself up for attack when I ask, why did Emile Zola defend Dreyfus? Palin is no Dreyfus and I am certainly no Zola. But all of us have an obligation, particularly those in politics and public office, to denounce, when we can, the perpetrators of horrendous libels and stand up for those falsely charged. We should denounce unfair, false and wicked charges not only when they are made against ourselves, our friends or our political party but against those with whom we disagree. If we are to truly change the poisonous political atmosphere that we all complain of, including those who create it, we should speak up for fairness when we can…

Ever since John McCain brought Sarah Palin out of obscurity in Alaska, the people on the left have relentlessly slandered her. Even the long-held position that the children of politicians are off limits has not been allowed for Sarah Palin. No stone has been left unturned, and no gutter un-visited in the left’s attempt to denigrate this women. Quite honestly, liberals should be individually and collectively ashamed of themselves for the way Sarah Palin has been treated. Except for Ed Koch – he’s shown himself to be a decent man.

And that is all which is really required of any of us. Give it a try, liberals…if Ed Koch can do it, any of you can.

Goldman Sachs says, hey!, shocking news here – food prices are rising! But also says that as long as they don’t go much higher, everything is cool – quoted from Zero Hedge:

…the recent surge in food commodity prices poses upside risk to both our core and headline CPI forecasts, particularly the latter. The rise in food costs should push up headline CPI inflation by roughly ½ point even without meaningful pass-through effects into the core index, reducing household real income growth accordingly. While clearly undesirable from the standpoint of households, these results suggests that as long as commodity prices stabilize relatively soon, the burst of food inflation would not have a major impact on the broader economic outlook.

Translation:

…it sucks to be middle class or poor, but as we’re neither, we don’t figure this as a bad thing unless food prices continue to rise as that will piss off the peasants and might make them take it out on us.

The real problem here is that as long as Ben Bernanke is printing up money at the Federal Reserve on the asinine theory that this will get the economy rolling there is nothing to stop food prices from rising – and from rising to disastrous levels. Remember, not necessarily disastrous for we here in the United States (though it will pinch and may toss us back in to recession), but disastrous for the poor around the world who already spend 50% or more of their disposable income on food and simply can’t afford to pay much more. The recent revolution in Tunisia can be traced to food prices – as can all manner of unrest spreading around the world.

The follow on to all this is that unrest leads to wars, revolutions and various things which tend to crush economic activity. No one likes to invest when the peasants are revolting, you see? Here’s our prospects:

1. Printing money until our dollar becomes worthless, thus sparking an economic collapse.

2. Stop printing money and the stock market crashes, thus sparking an economic collapse.

3. Some how or another the money printing doesn’t entirely devalue the dollar (possibly because all the other central banks are printing like mad in a “race to the bottom” devaluation of currency), but the rise in food prices so dislocates the Third World (our banksters call these areas “emerging markets” these days) that growth there collapses, thus sparking an economic collapse.

Pick one, because one of the three will be the ultimate outcome of this. The fix is to stop printing, slash government spending, endure the renewed recession and set in place policies which will encourage mining, manufacturing and agriculture here in the United States. 20 years from now, if we do this, we’ll be back on top of the world. Or, we can just keep on as we are and 1, 2 or 3 will happen to us.

Very interesting poll from KSL:

When Hatch is put up against possible Republican challengers he falls behind both former governor John Huntsman, Jr. and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah:

* 48 percent support Huntsman, who hasn’t said what his plans are for the 2012 election

* 23 percent support Chaffetz, who has hinted he might run

* 21 percent support Hatch, who says he’s definitely running again

* 7 percent said they favor someone else

* 1 percent said they don’t know

In addition to that, Hatch polls a weak 48% to 41% against his possible Democrat opponent. Clearly, the GOP base is not enthused about Senator Hatch – the TEA Party does not view him as someone worth keeping. Why is this so?

Because Hatch has been in office too long, has cut too many deals with Democrats over the years, has spent too much time expressing his esteem for liberal Democrats in the Senate – and while we’re in a revolutionary ferment in our politics, that just isn’t good enough…certainly not good enough for a reliably conservative State like Utah. Quite honestly, it is time for Hatch to retire – to gracefully exit from the scene and allow someone new to carry things forward. The fact that he’s unwilling to do this just shows how out of touch he’s become.

We’ll see how this plays out – Utah conservatives knocked off a political dinosaur in 2010 and may be able to do it in 2012. If Hatch does wish to survive – primary and general – then he’d better start adhering to a much more robust conservative worldview in his actions.

So reports Hot Air:

The Joementum’s been steadily slowing since Gore put him on the ticket and now he’s all but unelectable even in a deep blue state. No official word yet on his plans, but this site claims to have heard through the grapevine that he’s bowing out tomorrow and Politico’s now hearing the same.

Look at it this way: When he speaks at the next Republican convention in 2012, he won’t have to hold back…

It wouldn’t surprise me – the only way I can see Lieberman even possibly winning in 2012 is if he switched to the GOP…and doing that means he immediately loses his seniority and his chairmanships…and has no assurance of getting them back, even if the GOP wins a Senate majority in 2012. It might just be time to retire from the scene for Joe Lieberman – no place for a moderate in the Democrat party, any more…