Building a wall of defense around the anti-human organization:

Liberal groups, including the NAACP and the Sierra Club, are rushing to the defend of the nation’s largest abortion business after videos were released last week showing Planned Parenthood staffers helping alleged sex trafficking ring operators…

The Sierra Club? What possible reason could an environmentalist group have with abortion? Do they not realize that a lot of their support must, of necessity come from pro-life people? I guess not – if you’re of the left, slavish devotion to the cause is the name of game.

From The Hill:

Blue Dog Democrats might support a plan from House Republicans to cut $32 billion in discretionary spending this year, a spokesman for the fiscally conservative bloc said Monday.

Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) said the Blue Dogs are waiting to see the details of the proposed GOP cuts before taking a position. The draft legislation from the House Appropriations Committee is due on Thursday…

This could just be something Democrats are doing – Nancy Pelosi already has a high enough hill to climb in 2012 if she wants her old job back. If she forces the remaining Blue Dogs to walk the tax and spend liberalism plank, then her task goes from “extraordinarily hard” to “existentially impossible”. On the other hand and especially in light of other 2012 news, this might signal a willingness on the part of some Democrats to break away from the Democrat leadership – perhaps, eventually, in a permanent manner.

The fact of the matter is that if you are someone who can’t go GOP because we have become too conservative for your views (maybe, for instance, you are genuinely pro-life but also like a lot of social spending), you need an alternative the Democrats cannot provide because they have become too liberal. A new party of genuine centrist could appeal to people like the Blue Dogs and their supporters – as well as appeal to a segment of the GOP (people like Senator Susan Collins of Maine and her supporters). Much could be made of this – not, to begin with, a majority party, but certainly a party a lot of people would be comfortable with.

We’ll have to see how this plays out, but 2012 could get very interesting.

UPDATE: And the centrist Democrat Leadership Council is bankrupt. Obama seems to be presiding over a party crumbling from the bottom up.

In the form of destroying evidence of the Jews:

Muslim religious authorities are concluding a clandestine eight-month dig on the Temple Mount that is intended to erase traces of the Jewish Temple’s Altar, Temple activists charge.

The digs have been taking place under the Dome of the Chain, believed to have been built over 1300 years ago. For eight months, the dome – which has a diameter of 14 meters – has been surrounded by a metal fence and black cloth, which hide whatever activity has been going on there from outside inspection. The Muslim Waqf religious authority has claimed the activity is simply a refurbishing of the structure, but refuses adamantly to let Jews or tourists near…

The Dome of the Chain is apparently right on the spot where the altar of the Jewish Temple was placed – and the “dig” is actually just an attempt to erase any evidence of Judaism from that spot. This is just more proof that no non-Moslem can feel safe under Moslem rule – even the very past can be destroyed because at least some Moslems – and especially those in ruling positions – are determined to establish their claims, even if they have to out right lie to do it.

The Temple Mount should be taken away from Moslem authority – and, in fact, all religious sites in Israel and the West Bank must be kept safe from Moslem interference. A neutral, third party organization should be created as caretaker for such places – a group which will ensure access for believers to perform their ceremonies, but which will also prevent any attempts to destroy archeological evidence.

And we Republicans have picked it up – from the LA Times:

For Democrats, Ashley Bell was the kind of comer that a party builds a future on: A young African American lawyer, he served as president of the College Democrats of America, advised presidential candidate John Edwards and spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

But after his party’s midterm beat-down in November, Bell, a commissioner in northern Georgia’s Hall County, jumped ship. He joined the Republicans…

…”I think the midterms showed you really can’t be a conservative and be a member of the Democratic Party,” Bell said.

Since the midterm election, 24 state senators and representatives have made the switch in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Texas.

Mr. Bell is correct – but not only is it impossible to be a conservative Democrat, you can’t even really be a moderate Democrat. Unless, that is, you’re willing to throw it all away when the liberal leadership demands (as it did demand in 2010 on ObamaCare, and look at all the moderate Democrats who got clobbered over it). Its just not possible for anyone to really be a Democrat and stray far from the party line. If you want to chart an independent course where you think for yourself and act upon what you believe is right, only the GOP offers a home for you in politics.

This trend will just continue – even if Obama manages to get re-elected in 2012, the fact will remain that outside the liberal bastions, the Democrat party is rapidly dying away.

Interesting from ABC News:

Rep. Heath Schuler, D-N.C. is one of the 20 Blue Dog Democats who plan to meet with businessman Donald Trump today in New York City. The meeting with Trump, who has expressed interest in running for president in 2012, is set to last an hour. Sources say they will talk about the economy and ideas Trump has for improving it.

Just to be clear here – Donald Trump as Presidential candidate is a sad joke. Quite seriously, given a choice between Trump and Obama, I’m either voting for Obama or getting too drop dead drunk on election day to bother. But it is interesting that he’s meeting with the Blue Dogs.

If Trump really is considering a run for the Presidency, his options are wide open as far as venue goes. He can run as an Independent, as a Republican or as a Democrat. It doesn’t even matter what his registration is now; he can always switch it as necessary. When I first heard the absurd idea of Trump running, my guess was that he’d go Independent, though perhaps only after a head fake to the GOP. But what if his plan is to march in to Obama’s turf?

It can’t be that Trump is thinking he can take the Democrat nomination away from Obama – quite simply there is no one, anywhere, who can do that. Even if unemployment shoots up to 20% by January and Obama’s approval rating is at 20%, he will be re-nominated. Not necessarily because the Democrats would at that point think he could win, but because they know that rejecting Obama would cause a down-ballot destruction of the party, perhaps for good. But in preparation for running as an Independent, suppose Trump enters the early Democrat primaries and then marches off, proclaiming himself as the only real “hope and change” candidate – thus giving disaffected Democrats some one to vote for in the general election other than Obama?

There would still be no chance Trump could win – getting to 270 electoral votes is next to impossible for any third party candidate and even if such a candidate took enough electoral votes to deny the major parties an electoral majority, the House would then elect one of the two major party candidates as President. Of course, Trump might have a big enough ego to think he could pull it off…or, observing the destruction of our economy under Obama, he might just be trying to do his bit to ensure Obama’s defeat next year.

Typical:

Members of the House of Representatives are slated to hold hearings this week on two bills that would stop taxpayer funding of abortions. The legislation is expected to clear the House but Democrats promise to block it in the Senate…

Because the pro-abortion lobby owns the Democrat party lock, stock and barrel. There is nothing the Democrats will deny to Planned Parenthood, NARAL and the rest of the Culture of Death. Liberalism has become a religion and its primary sacrament is abortion.

One wonders – there is no upside to being in favor of taxpayer funding for abortion. The American people reject it – in poll after poll after poll and as reflected in election results around the country, the people do not want to pay via their taxes for abortion. And this includes a very large number of people who are in favor of keeping abortion legal. Only the tiniest and most fanatical pro-abortionists want such a thing – and yet Democrats are prepared to go out on a limp to block this ban in the Senate. Why?

Campaign donations? Do the pro-abortion people really provide that much? It probably plays a role, but not a decisive one. I think it is a matter that they have so tied themselves to this hateful, anti-human practice that they are simply afraid to jettison it. Its a matter of becoming so deadened to morality that returning to morality is frightening – they’d have to reverse years of opinions and votes, and admit they were wrong all along. And so, rather than facing up to facts, they just keep pressing further down that road. Its really rather sad, when you think about it.

Still, we must keep pressing them – the people are on our side and swing ever more towards the Culture of Life. Eventually, all the pro-abortion fanatics in the world won’t be able to stop us.

You can see the video over at Breitbart TV. The bottom line, for Sarah Palin, is that no group which can contribute to the debate in a reasonable form should be excluded. I agree with that view.

The folks at GOProud – just like the folks over at the much-linked Gay Patriot – are good, solid conservatives on most issues. They just get it wrong on the issue of gay marriage. Of course, they would rejoin that I get it wrong on that issue – which, in turn, makes me laugh a little bit and then offer up some prayers for their conversion.

But, bottom line, there are lots of conservatives out there whom I disagree with on this, that or the other issue. Some conservative groups advocate for free trade – even with bestial regimes like China’s. Some conservative groups insist upon a hands-off attitude about the filth in popular culture. Some conservative groups are ok with the Federal Reserve. On and on it goes – the key is that on most issues, most of the time, I and all conservatives agree on the core issues of limited government and individual liberty. GOProud may want gay marriage, but they don’t want to force the State of Utah to embrace it because a couple gay guys in San Francisco want it. As such, I’m able to work with them on the common issues – lowering taxes, cutting government, strong national defense, etc.

One thing to keep in mind: there is much wrong with this world and the ultimate fix for it is beyond our means. God will eventually call a halt to all this, judge all and then a new world will be created. Until that time, the tools God chooses to use in making this world better are, my dear friends, us. Flawed, fallible us. We must work with what we have. Yes, homosexual sex is wrong. Those who engage in it do put themselves in grave peril. I urge homosexuals to stop. But I, too, sin…and if someone were to say to me that because a man has a particular moral failing he cannot participate, at all, in helping to make the world better, I would ask: who, then, will do it?

Rich Lowry gives us 8 reasons why Jeb Bush should run for President in 2012. I can’t emphasize this enough – if we nominate Jeb in 2012, we re-elect President Obama, even if unemployment is at 10%.

Look, I like Jeb Bush – I voted for him for governor when I lived in Florida in 1994. He lost that race, and went on to win in 1998, after I had moved to Nevada. I wish I could have voted for him on his second try. Jeb did a fantastic job as governor of Florida and showed how to advance a strong, conservative program in a State split evenly (at the time) between Democrats and Republicans. Jeb would, if he ever got there, make an excellent President – perhaps even much better than his brother.

The trouble is, he’ll never get there. His brother already did – and while I admire his brother and am still a supporter of that 8 year Administration, the fact remains that a great deal of latent hostility to President Bush remains, and that will transfer over to Jeb, and doubly so because of the very American opposition to political dynasties. I’m sorry for Jeb Bush, I wish it could be otherwise, but he will never be President. If he wants to do something for the cause, he should set up a PAC and start finding good, conservative candidates to run at the State and local level, thus developing conservative strength in the nation. If the GOP wins in 2012, then a cabinet position should probably go to Jeb Bush; but no White House. Not now, not ever.

Can’t think of anything better for the TEA Party than for a liberal Democrat and a RINO to try to bring up immigration reform in front of 2012 – from Politico:

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have rekindled their alliance on immigration reform, taking some early steps to test the political will for addressing the contentious issue this year.

Their call list hasn’t focused so much on House and Senate members who’ve been reliable pro-immigration votes in the past. Instead, they’re looking to a strange-bedfellows mix of conservative and liberal constituencies that can provide a “safety net” of support, as Graham put it, once the issue heats up…

In other words, cobble together a coalition of liberals and RINOs in the Senate to put the thing up for a vote, then try to shout “racism” at the House GOP until they pass it. It won’t work – in fact, all it will do is solidify conservatives and make a strong rally point for everyone who is working for a revolutionary change in government. You see, while RINOs like Graham will try to paint opposition to this as “extreme” or “racist”, the reality is that opposition will stem from the fact that people don’t trust politicians.

We know – even a pro-amnesty person such as myself – that the politicians will lie about what they’re doing. If Graham, et al, come up with a “amnesty/border security” bill it is a dead certainty that we’ll get the amnesty without the border security. The American people are firm on this – border security first, then we can address the illegals already in country. Graham’s proposal won’t really go anywhere, but it puts the spur to us to keep fighting, because the moment we let our guard down, it will be people like Graham who will cut us off at the knees.

As an aside: here, folks, is the proof that backing someone like O’Donnell was still the smart thing to do in 2010: if we hadn’t backed her, we probably would have got another RINO to work with Graham and Schumer in the Senate. Graham is the living proof that it is better to lose with a conservative than win with a RINO. 41 conservative GOP Senators are of more worth to us than 60 RINOs.