Against the slaughter of the African-American future at the hands of the pro-abortion movement:

The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is coming to the defense of a pro-life congressman who said last week that abortion has hurt the black community worse than slavery. She follows another pro-life African-American leader who says Rep. Trent Franks got it right.

Franks, who has sponsored legislation responding to the high rate of abortions in the African-American community, released a video last week.

“Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?” he says in it.

Franks has come under attack from abortion advocates and the mainstream media, but Dr. Alveda King, whose uncle was the famed civil rights leader, told LifeNews.com today that Franks has a good point.

“Congressman Franks’ comment that ‘far more of the African American community is being devastated’ by abortion ‘than were being devastated by the policies of slavery’ makes a quantitative distinction,” she said. “It’s not a judgment as to which of the two brutal, inhumane practices is worse, but rather which has impacted more people.”

Who is racist? The liberal who wants to government to pay for a black woman to have an abortion, or the conservative who wants to welcome the black child in to the world? Rhetoric vs Reality – and the stark, disgusting reality is that liberals are and have long been the bane of America’s black community.

You can talk all you want about “social justice”. It doesn’t matter to the aborted baby. You can talk all you want about using affirmative action to correct historic wrongs. It doesn’t matter to the aborted baby. You can talk all you want about what wonderful things you’ll do for minorities. It doesn’t matter to the aborted baby. Only if someone is allowed to live does it matter – until liberals become uniformly pro-life, all their talk of helping the downtrodden is just so much garbage.

This seems to be spreading:

We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives.

Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush…

The author, Chris Hedges, goes on for a bit on how Obama was supposed to stop all those evil, wicked and mean Bush policies – you know, how we became this fascist dictatorship wantonly blowing up the world for no good reason. The usual tripe from “progressives” about Bush and the Republicans. But its clear that he’s disappointed in his man Obama – and as he puts Obama’s lies first (with, of course, a dig at President Bush – who didn’t lie, but such basic facts don’t matter on the left), prior to running down the list of alleged Bush sins to be corrected, I think we’re seeing a real crisis on the left.

What I’m wondering is if the people on the left are finally waking up to the fact that their leaders are only in it for the power, prestige and wealth it brings them? When you have people who devote their whole lives to politics – such as Obama, Reid and Pelosi – you naturally get people who will do just about anything to stay in power, and increase their power, and rake in a few bucks, in to the bargain.

Back a century ago, American progressives – they were more honest them, and called themselves socialists – were a much more respectable group. Their leader – Eugene V. Debs – was an honest man who lived the spartan life one would expect from a dedicated socialist. Today’s leaders of the left are either born to great wealth (Ted Kennedy) or mysteriously manage to amass great wealth (Harry Reid) while serving in office.

The progressives just don’t figure it out – never figure out just why most liberal leaders don’t go near leftist rhetoric in an election year: they want the votes and the donations, but only because they gets them in to power, or higher up in power. And, sure, they’ll fund liberal programs like no tomorrow – but only because buying votes with taxpayer money is one of their ways of winning election.

One wonders: did they really think that Obama was going to go after the banksters? Really shut down the magnificently successful Bush anti-terror policies just because some rank-and-file liberals had been conned in to thinking that the people were being spied on and terrorists were being tortured? Really conduct a transparent government when such transparency would spill the beans about just how liberal leaders conduct themselves?

Given the anger we’re seeing, I have to figure they did. They believed the Hope and Change mantra. They believed in Obama – that is hard for us on the right to understand, as we saw through his scam early on – and nothing is more heart-breaking than to have an icon collapse.

What will come of it? Hard to say – progressives do have a very sheep-like mentality and they may just gripe but follow…or, they may split the Democrat party. Time will tell.

Fighting the good fight:

On the floor of the Senate, Republican Jim Bunning of Kentucky just defended the position he’s taken that has delayed an extension of jobless benefits for the nation’s unemployed and has forced the furlough of about 2,000 federal workers.

Saying that he has blocked votes on the legislation to underscore his opposition to the ongoing growth in federal debt, Bunning read a letter from “Robert in Louisville,” who told the senator that even though he hasn’t been working regularly in the past two years he supports what Bunning is doing.

Guess what, Democrats? There isn’t an infinite amount of money – not if we fired up the printing presses full time and borrowed every red cent from the Chinese. Life isn’t a fairy tale with pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – its about trade-offs and priorities.

Bunning, after all, is just holding you to your own words – you said you wanted to pay as you go. Well, here’s your chance. None of us want the unemployed to go without benefits, but as there isn’t a magic money tree, we have to decide what do we want more:

Unemployment benefits, or funding for PBS?

Unemployment benefits, or Bureau of Land Management?

Unemployment benefits, or Department of Energy, Environmental Management?

Unemployment benefits, or Department of Labor, Training and Employment Service?

Unemployment benefits, or Corporation for National and Community Service?

Remember, you can’t have everything. Its just not possible. Time to grow up and be big boys and girls and realize that some hard choices need to be made.

Of course, you won’t. You’ll instead go on a whine about how mean we Republicans are. Trouble for you is that the majority isn’t buying that nonsense, any more. We know the scam – if we don’t immediately give you want you want, people will die. We know its all BS – you just don’t want to set priorities. Well, we’ll set them for you – starting on January 3rd, 2011.

You’re turning our Blue States, Red:

Barack Obama now has a negative approval rating in every state he flipped from the Bush column to his in 2008. In each of those places his level of support is now in the 44-46% range. It’s probably a good thing he doesn’t have to run for reelection this year. He can only hope things start turning around for him once the midterms are in the rear view mirror, much as they did for Bill Clinton.

Only took a bit more than a year for our erring sisters to figure Obama out – and now these States are receding rapidly from Obama; and they won’t be back in 2012, even if the economy improves. All that political polarization is just going to get stronger, thanks to Obama’s relentless liberalism. Its very hard to switch a negative view back to a positive one.

This doesn’t mean Obama can’t win in 2012 – but it does mean that its back to Ohio and Florida calling the shots. For now. Obama keeps going like this and we might get a repeat of the last Carter Administration…

Makes me wonder just how long it has been since someone advised her of the difference between truth and lies:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) insisted on Friday that the Senate health care bill does not allow tax-funding of abortion, and added that she had spoken with “Catholic bishops” about the issue. However, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told CNSNews.com that anyone who had spoken to the bishops about the legislation should know that it does fund abortion and that the bishops oppose the bill.

Dishonesty, thy name is Nancy.

Who is she trying to impress? The folks back home? I doubt that pleasing Catholics is high on the San Francisco agenda. I can only guess that she’s hoping to limit Catholic voter defections in November – as the Church has gotten ever more forthright on the moral duties of politicians who claim to be Catholic, it has become ever harder for such politicians to try and split the moral difference. The days of Ted Kennedy getting away with it for decades are over.

In addition to that, I do wonder why liberals are so determined to insert at least some sort of abortion funding in to ObamaCare? Is the bill not quite unpopular enough? I know the abortion industry lavishes money on the Democrats, but is pleasing them worth angering political moderates who are opposed to federal funding for abortion?

Or, is it that they are just insane? So convinced that they deserve their power and can’t lose it that they just don’t care? I guess time will tell on that.

He’s keeping his gavel:

When campaigning in 2006, Nancy Pelosi said that a vote for Democratic control of Congress would bring the “most ethical Congress ever.” Now that one of their leadership has been caught violating ethics rules about accepting travel from lobbyists — precisely the kind of scandal Pelosi exploited in 2006 in the Jack Abramoff debacle — what does she plan to do about it? Er … nothing:

The House ethics committee decision to admonish Rangel for taking two corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean has turned up the heat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman — with even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying that Rangel’s actions don’t pass the “smell test.”…

…But the speaker also said that Rangel’s participation in the corporate-sponsored trips wasn’t something that had “jeopardized our country in any way,” and she made it clear that she has no intention of taking away Rangel’s chairmanship…

Because Nancy Pelosi rose to power by being corrupt. Because Rangel simply will not be punished by his constituents – and, ultimately, because liberals do not hold their own to account. As Matt and I pointed out in Caucus of Corruption, the only thing which makes Democrats move against one of their own is if there is a risk of electoral loss. Absent that, and Democrats will stand by their corrupt members.

And the rank and file will never abandon their liberal leaders – because they do as they’re told. Servile in mind and spirit and lacking skill in independent thinking, liberals just swallow whatever feces their bosses shove at them.

We will put an end to this – Rangel can keep his dirty mitts on that gavel, for now. But the day of reckoning is coming.

Pelosi to House Dems: “I’m in a safe seat and my pollsters are still telling me that there will be a Democrat majority after November – so the rest of you wavering Democrats darn well better vote for ObamaCare“.

Feingold in trouble?

Obama Greece-ing the skids to our own financial collapse.

Illegal funding of Planned Parenthood by the Colorado government – because, for liberals, abortion is more important than the law.

Take that, Tojo!

Farrakhan rambles on like a nut, but even more so than usual.

Latest entry in the Death of Civilization Watch: group nude photo of 5,200 people.

Mike Shedlock breaks it down in data of a lot of states – a sample:

Texas

Texas Sales Tax Collections

January 2010 State Sales Tax Collections To General Revenue

State sales tax net collections deposited to general revenue totaled $1,655.3 million in January 2010. Compared with the $1,928.3 million collected in January 2009, this represents a decrease of 14.2 percent.

December 2009 State Sales Tax Collections To General Revenue

State sales tax net collections deposited to general revenue totaled $1,653.1 million in December 2009. Compared with the $1,869.4 million collected in December 2008, this represents a decrease of 11.6 percent.

November 2009 State Sales Tax Collections To General Revenue

State sales tax net collections deposited to general revenue totaled $1,696.9 million in November 2009. Compared with the $1,983.1 million collected in November 2008, this represents a decrease of 14.4 percent.

Down, down, down they go – and Texas, keep in mind, is actually one of our healthier States. Out here in Nevada, we’ve had double-digit declines in sales tax revenue for months on end. Thus we have a nearly $900 million dollar budget shortfall our pinheads in Carson City are currently trying to deal with (for what I think of their efforts, go here).

In the linked article, you’ll find that there are some government statistics allegedly showing a rise in retail sales. This is because of things like the government counting same-store sales year over year…but if a company closes out half its stores, the closed half aren’t counted and given the lower number of stores, it is natural that the survivors would show an increase, even though total sales are down. It should also be noted that even the current figures for sales tax receipts are inflated because a lot of States and localities jacked up sales tax rates in 2009 – including out here in Nevada, going along with that bit of brilliant liberal economics which says the thing to do in a down economy is tax it more.

Other than government spending, there is nothing increasing in our economy. In spite of liberal fairy tales to the contrary, the spending FDR did in the 1930’s did not cure the Depression and, actually, made it longer and deeper. We’re trying to borrow, print and spend our way out of this when the only way to get out is to work our way out – we’re repeating the mistakes of the past, and we’re going to reap the same reward.

Smoke and mirrors, boys and girls, that is all we’ve got in the economy.

Because its becoming a nightmare for the Democrats:

Kent Hancock can’t remember tougher economic times in the two decades he’s sold used cars in California’s Central Valley.

He brings home less than half the money he cleared a few years ago and has dipped into savings to keep his business open. Hancock, 41, blames politicians for doing too little to get the economy back on track and hopes they are “sweating it a little bit. They should. It shouldn’t be a guaranteed job.”

Hancock’s frustration is evident throughout the nation’s most populous state. Just a year ago, the Democratic Party looked at California as a base for adding to its majorities in Congress. Now, it could be a the place where it loses them.

Even Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, widely viewed just six weeks ago as a shoo-in for re-election to a fourth term, now faces the toughest race in her 28 years representing California in Congress…

…Republicans…have expanded their takeover list.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who’s recruiting Republicans to challenge incumbent California Democrats, said he has no worries that the GOP will lose any of the House seats it now holds in the state. Democrats, he said, will have to focus on keeping seats in perennially competitive districts in other states.

“They have too many of their own members playing defense and needing money,” McCarthy said.

Democrats were, of course, working from the assumption that their wins in 2006 and 2008 were a positive vote in favor of Democrat policies. The truth is they were a negative vote against President Bush and, far more importantly, against business as usual in Washington. Now that Bush is gone, the only thing people have to vote against is business as usual – Democrats had about a 6 month window of opportunity in 2009 to show they were going to change things.

They didn’t. All they did was show that they are even worse than the Republicans who were rejected. It is not now a matter of can the Democrats win in 2010, but whether or not they can limit their losses to something manageable – limit them to keeping a narrow Congressional majority, that is. It is getting ever more questionable that they’ll be able to do this in the House, and there are starting to be some road maps to a GOP Senate majority, though that is still a 10-1 against prospect (much better than the 1000-1 prospect it was even 6 months ago).

As I said, 2010 is all about The People vs The Powerful – or, to use Senator Brown’s better formulation, The People vs The Machine. Anyone who can cast themselves as the agent of reform in 2010 will win unless running against the most entrenched liberals in the most overwhelmingly liberal districts in the nation – the vote for the PATRIOT Act reauthorization told the tale on how many such there are: less than 100 votes against.

2010 is getting to be very fun…

They don’t care, as long as they stay rich:

A secretive group of Wall Street hedge fund bosses are said to be behind a plot to cash in on the decline of the euro.

Representatives of George Soros’s investment business were among an all-star line up of Wall Street investors at an ‘ideas dinner’ at a private townhouse in Manhattan, according to reports.

A spokesman for Soros Fund Management said the legendary investor did not attend the dinner on February 8, but did not deny that his firm was represented.

At the dinner, the speculators are said to have argued that the euro is likely to plunge in value to parity with the dollar.

He’s your hero, liberals. He’s been the moneybags behind all sorts of liberal activism for years now. He’s oh, so caring and wonderful and he just wants to save the world…and now he’s about to prey upon the wealth of the common man. Because he can. Because he can make a killing. Because all of his actions are based upon the need to keep George Soros on top.

The real reason he opposed President Bush? Bush was unlikely to allow a greedy man like Soros to rake it in hand over fist – rational economic policies tend to stymie the desires of people like Soros. And so he gins up this liberal opposition and manages, in the end, to get a guy in the White House who allows the Banksters to run wild…and you liberals bought it. Hook, line and sinker.

Now, why did you buy it? Because he was saying the words you liked to hear. You didn’t analyze anything. You didn’t think about just why someone like Soros – a convicted felon who had been greedily wrecking things for years to enrich himself – would want to back your side. He just had to say those magical words – those liberal talking points – and cut the checks, and you were enthralled. It is high time you on the left stopped asserting you’re the thinkers of the world and actually start thinking.

You helped elevate this man – now, help us bring him down, and all those like him. You have your chance in November – your votes can help us take our country back, or you can continue to slavishly follow your liberal leaders.