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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…

As the House GOP gears up to vote on ObamaCare repeal, the MSM gets its DNC marching orders and, willy-nilly, produces polls showing that the GOP shouldn’t repeal. But, as noted over at NRO, the polls are worthless:

…the AP poll, which shows that 40 percent of adults support Obamacare and 41 percent oppose it. In November, the last time the AP polled this question, 38 percent supported Obamacare and 47 percent opposed it. But the sample in November was very different: 38 percent Republican and 39 percent Democrat. The sample in January wasn’t so balanced, with 42 percent of the responders Democrat and 36 percent Republican…

…The Marist poll finds that 35 percent of registered voters would like Obamacare changed so that it could do more, 13 percent would like it to do less, and 30 percent would prefer the law be fully repealed. But again, the numbers aren’t equal: 35 percent of those polled were Democrat, and 28 percent Republican. Exit polls for the 2010 election found equal numbers of Democrat and Republican voters, both parties represented by about 36 percent of voters respectively…

The polls are also, apparently, badly worded and don’t take in to account what the GOP plan really is – to repeal ObamaCare and replace it with reform more in tune with popular demands for health care reform (selling insurance across State lines, that sort of thing). It is a sign of increasing desperation on the part of the Democrats and their MSM allies that they’d stoop to such bogus polls to try and skew the debate. It must be kept in mind what liberals most fear – ObamaCare being repealed in the House and then a GOP-2112 Democrat coalition forcing a repeal vote in the Senate. The last thing Democrats want is for Obama to have to veto a repeal – they don’t want Obama to carry this horrifically unpopular legislation in to 2012 with him being the only person who prevented common-sense modifications to a deeply flawed health care reform.

We’ve got them boxed in on this provided the House actually votes to repeal – after that, Democrats can either kill it in the Senate, or force Obama to veto it. In either case, Democrats will then carry the onus of not only passing the bad bill, but blocking all efforts – some of them to be manifestly bi-partisan – to replace (or at least modify) health care reform with something more palatable to the people. For the first time in a long time, the GOP is firmly in control of events…all we need is a bit of courage of our convictions, and the rest will fall in to place.

Well, this will get our liberals foaming at the mouth – from USA Today:

Former vice president Dick Cheney, back in the public eye after a major heart operation, predicts that President Obama will be a one-term president because of health care and other big government programs.

In an interview to air Tuesday on NBC’s Today show, Cheney cited Obama’s “overall approach to expanding the size of government, expanding the deficit, and giving more and more authority and power to the government over the private sector.”…

It is to be hoped so, and Cheney is an astute observer of American politics – but, also, don’t get cocky, Republicans. Obama will spend a billion dollars on his re-election effort and short of murder, there isn’t anything Democrats won’t do to hold on to the White House. Any incumbent President is hard to beat – even Carter put up a strong fight against Reagan, and Carter had absolutely nothing going for him as 1980 dawned.

Don Surber notes the problem with being civil to liberals:

For a decade, from the election of Bush 43 forward, the Left has lied and cheated as it tried to return to power. Al Gore made a mockery out of the American electoral system by being a spoilsport over Florida, which Bush indeed won by 537 votes. Dan Rather forged a document to try to derail Bush’s re-election. Twice Democrats stole U.S. (senate seats) from the Republicans. After voting to support the war to get by the 2002 election, many Democrats quickly soured on the war. The profane protests were cheered by liberals who mis-attributed “dissent is the highest form of patriotism”to Thomas Jefferson; the words belong to the late historian Howard Zinn.

Once in power, liberals were the opposite of gracious.

For two years now, I have been called ignorant, racist, angry and violent by the left. The very foul-mouthed protesters of Bush dare to now label my words as “hate speech.”…

All of us, even minor, little bloggers like me, have felt this – liberals calling us every name in the book and blaming us for all ills. Heck, guys, I’ve had liberals try to find a picture of my house so they can post it on the web – and the doubly bad thing about that is they found a different Mark Noonan’s house and posted it! (Seems there are a lot of Mark Noonans out there – apparently, I come in six packs…joking aside, one should be careful as to which Mark Noonan has been found; it may not be me, so have a care in your stalking, liberals). Matt was once roughed up by union thugs, a liberal radio host once opined that I should be beaten up. On and on it goes, day after day without a let up – just pure evil being directed against all conservatives. After all this, we’re supposed to be civil?

Well, truth be told, yes, we are – that is, those of us who are Jewish or Christian are required by our religious beliefs to turn the other cheek and be patient…and the worse the other side gets, the nicer we’re supposed to be. Its not fair – but the point is not just to provide an example to these foaming-at-the-mouth liberals, but also to protect our own souls. If we went off giving tit for tat with the left, we’d be putting ourselves at eternal risk.

But it is difficult. It is hard for me to work up sympathy for liberals when they say untrue things about me, or about conservatism in general. The American Catholic has a video up of liberal twitter posts in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting – it is not safe for family viewing; though if you’ve a mind to really see what liberals think about conservatives, it is invaluable. We are to mortify even the least desire to pay them out in their own coin…but in day to day terms, no one should look for any particular conservative to spend a lot of effort trying to be nice to liberals.

If we do wish to have a civil debate, then it will have to be liberals first stopping their nastiness, and then apologizing for what they have done. No matter how many times we conservatives bury the hatchet and try to make nice, it won’t work because the liberals will just call us nasty names, again, the next day. I’m going to try and do my part – in fact, I already do my part. Time and time again I re-draft my posts to try and soften the blow. I can’t lie – which would be the only way to make liberalism out as something worthwhile – but I probably re-write passages and sentences several times a week for the sake of civility. I’ve yet to see any such efforts on the part of liberals – and I doubt much I ever will. The conflict is too fundamental for that, and the side which is advocating for wrong things won’t be able to pretty themselves up for the battle.