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Along comes proof that a liberal Democrat always has another step lower to go:

…When Elizabeth (Edwards) learned in March 2007 that her breast cancer had returned, it became part of the couple’s political calculations in his presidential run, according to Edwards’ former aide Andrew Young who has written a tell-all book “The Politician.” The book will be released Jan. 30.

“Once Elizabeth was diagnosed with cancer … within 12 hours they were openly talking about how her cancer prognosis was going to help them in the polls,” Young told ABC News’ Bob Woodruff in an exclusive interview.

In a statement to ABC News, Elizabeth denied the accusation, calling it “unconscionable, hurtful and patently false.”

Though the cancer had spread to her bones and was incurable, the couple made the dramatic decision to stay in the 2008 presidential campaign.

“The things that were most disturbing about the Edwards to me in these later years, was that nothing was sacred. They openly talked about [their son] Wade’s death as one of their motivators for running and why he ran… They used [their children] Jack and Emma openly as campaign props,” Young said.

Just as you can’t get blood out of a turnip, you can’t get integrity out of trial lawyers. This was the left’s hero until Obama came along – and let us now be a bit thankful for Obama. It would have been a very dark night for America if Edwards was President.

Which, for those of you who are not Catholic, is a recognition that Pelosi has excommunicated herself from the Church – and do note that: its not her being excommunicated, but an acknowledgment of her self-excommunication:

Speaking with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) after the Vigil for Life Mass last week, Lexington Bishop Ronald Gainer said that the Church has been “patient enough” with outspokenly pro-abortion Catholic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

LSN questioned Bishop Gainer on whether Pelosi should be denied communion due to her public stance as a ‘pro-choice’ Catholic. While acknowledging that it was up to her local bishop, the Lexington prelate did say that “something should be done.”

Pelosi’s latest salvo claiming to support abortion and yet be a faithful Catholic came in a December Newsweek interview. “I am a practicing Catholic,” she said, while suggesting that this made the U.S. bishops uncomfortable. “I practically mourn this difference of opinion,” she said regarding her conflict with the Church over abortion, “because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with, a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions.” She added: “And that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will.”

Reacting to Pelosi’s stance, Bishop Gainer said, “to make these public statements is a betrayal of our Catholic faith and discipline.” The bishop noted that her position was a “contradiction” and stressed that “our Church is clear on what the teachings are regarding the sanctity of life, on the inviolability of human life.”

On the question of denying Pelosi communion for her betrayals, Bishop Gainer said he understood that such actions on the part of the Church are often spun to make a martyr of those denied communion, by falsely painting the Church as being heavy-handed.

Nevertheless, he said, “the bishops have an obligation to stand up for the Church’s teaching and when we have such a broad and public consistent denial of our Church’s moral position it would seem to indicate that we’ve been patient enough and something should be done.”

Everyone should also note that it is, indeed, up to Pelosi’s Bishop to make the call – it must be understood that in spite of what critics believe, the Catholic Church is neither monolithic nor dictatorial. The reason it is left up to the local Bishop in these matters is because it is felt – correctly – that the man on the ground (as it were) will have the best understanding of the totality of the issue. The weakness of the system, of course, is that we some times get Bishops who are unwilling to challenge people who persistently violate Church teaching and yet claim to be Catholic.

If Pelosi is ever denied communion by her Bishop it will, naturally, be spun as her being persecuted by a hidebound Church – but the reality is that just as one doesn’t really get damned by God, one doesn’t really get excommunicated by the Church. Its all in the personal choice – people decide to refuse salvation, people decide to reject the Church. All that anyone else does is recognize the choice having been made.

Pelosi is perfectly free to believe as she wishes – but to be a Catholic requires acceptance of certain, basic beliefs. Its not hard – we are pro-life. From conception until natural death, no one has just cause for taking an innocent life…and even a guilty life should only be taken at extreme need. Pelosi is flat wrong when she claims her views are consistent with Church teaching – and she’s either a bald faced liar, or a complete fool for making such a claim.

We all have our choices to make in life – Pelosi has made hers. We should recognize it.

UPDATE: Pro-lifers massively outnumber pro-abortion people in San Francisco demonstration. Come on, liberals, you can do this – you can reject abortion. I promise that if you do so you can still be in favor of massive spending and you may even continue to think of President Bush as Chimpy McSmirk BusHitler…you’ll only be giving up despair and death.

What will Obama say tonight? Shall we have a pool on just how many lies Obama will tell? How many times Democrats will pop up like robots to applaud his liberal lines?

Discuss this and anything else under the sun.

This will give liberals fits:

This really should have been released last week, which was of course the best news week evah, but we’ll take it.

Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not.

CNN does next best at a 39/41 spread, followed by NBC at 35/44, CBS at 32/46, and ABC at 31/46.

The survey goes on to note how liberals, naturally, trust the old media more than they do Fox, and vice versa for conservatives. We’ve got two Americas, all right – and they are not even on speaking terms, at the moment.

This problem would be solved if the old media would just admit to their liberal bias and spice up the day with a few more conservative shows – Fox would probably follow suit with some more liberal-minded shows and we’d all benefit from having not only different points of view, but having those views available to us in a format we like.

Unfortunately, the old media is still wedded to the idea that they are unbiased (while the far left is still convinced that outside of Olberman, the entire media is right wing). The members of the old media like to think back to Murrow and they want to pretend that they are just tribunes of the truth – that Murrow, himself, was a liberal hack doesn’t seem to occur to them.

For now, this just means the old media will continue to weaken – eventually the stock holders will demand profits and we might see some changes.

Against Ellie Light

And never was a President more deserving of a ripping:

Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) tells National Review Online that the spending freeze is a “long, long way from the medicine we need to cure our government’s addiction.” A day before President Obama’s maiden State of the Union address, McCain also says that he is disappointed with the president’s recent mea culpa to Diane Sawyer.

“I was flabbergasted by that interview,” says McCain. “Instead of that, what I’d like to see tomorrow — and won’t — is the president saying that he promised to change the climate in Washington, but hasn’t. That he promised to broadcast health-care negotiations on C-SPAN, but didn’t. And that he promised to sit down with Republicans and work in a bipartisan fashion on issues like the economy, then decided not to. That interview was transparent. He’s looking to avoid any blame.”

“While I’m glad to hear about the freeze, and that he decided to change his position from the campaign trail, it’s only part of the solution,” McCain says. “Anything like this is better than what he’s been doing.”

I know a lot of my fellow conservatives still have a problem with McCain but let’s face some facts here: he would be a much better President than Obama is being. Sure, he’d tick us off by lurching to the left on some things, but we wouldn’t have this amazingly dishonest, hard-left government wrecking America, day by day.

Obama has lied to us again and again and now expects us to believe that his so-called spending freeze is something other than eye wash. The budget is to be frozen at current levels – ie, at the level where we’re bankrupting the nation. Additionally, Obama has given himself all sorts of wiggle room to increase funding on liberal, pet projects. And we can top that off with the concern that Obama is just flat out lying – saying he’ll freeze, when he really has no intention of doing so.

We need not a freeze, but at least a 25%, across-the-board reduction in spending – and if this means that more than half the government employees have to be fired, then that is just what we’ll have to do because we can’t starve the troops nor cut SS benefits to the elderly. But we’ve got a lot of chair polishers who can be shown the door – or they can agree to a 50% reduction in pay, whatever they prefer. Bottom line: we have to stop borrowing. Today.

Unless and until Obama does the right thing, he’ll just be digging us further in the hole and all his populist rhetoric will be just so much nonsense designed to sucker people in to ignoring reality.

UPDATE: While they talk fiscal responsibility, they are set to have deficits which will never be less than $1 trillion over the next ten years.

Going after the public sector unions in California:

hat’s how the LA Times is characterizing the latest act in the California budget drama. I would characterize it as “The Unions vs. Fiscal Sanity.”

Reporting from Sacramento – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has put organized labor squarely in his cross-hairs in 2010, opening a fight that will largely determine the shape of his final year in office.

Schwarzenegger’s proposals would cut the size of the union workforce, reduce pay, shrink future pensions and roll back job protections won through collective bargaining.

Labor and the unions’ Democratic allies are already girding for battle.

To quote The Matrix, “What do you need? Besides a miracle.”

The news comes on the heels of a report that, for the first time, the number of union members working for the public sector is larger than the number of union members working for the private sector. As one observer told the New York Times, “There has been steady growth among union members in the public sector, but I’m a little bit shocked to see that the lines have actually crossed.”

A crazy person might observe that unionization appears to be associated with growing government and shrinking private industries. Kudos to Schwarzenegger for trying to buck the trend.

Public sector unions are the bane of good government and fiscal sanity – ever since we allowed government employees to unionize (I believe it was back in the 60’s, under JFK, that we let this plague lose in our nation), things have simply gotten worse. Government is more costly, more corrupt, more inefficient because unions don’t exist to produce good work – and with the money unions pour in to Democrat politics, they have a mortal lock on one of the two major political parties.

Think about it: Is a government union ever going to advocate budget cuts? The elimination of a department of bureau? Pay cuts for government workers? Reductions in the gold-plated government employee pension plans? Are unions, to put it bluntly, ever going to advocate policies which help the people as opposed to helping the unions? Of course not.

Public sector unions are driving cities and States in to bankruptcy with their absurd pay and benefits. Public sector unions corrupt our politics by essentially diverting our tax dollars to support people who will jack up our taxes and increase government spending. Public sector unions are no good, and need to be brought to heel.

Schwarzenegger has done a lot of wrong things as governor – but if he carries this fight forward, he’ll have set himself a place in history as a great governor, whatever else happens.

Just like everyone with even so much as half a brain said they would:

Sales of previously occupied homes took the largest monthly drop in more than 40 years last month, sinking more dramatically than expected after lawmakers gave buyers additional time to use a tax credit.

The report reflects a sharp drop in demand after buyers stopped scrambling to qualify for a tax credit of up to $8,000 for first-time homeowners. It had been due to expire on Nov. 30. But Congress extended the deadline until April 30 and expanded it with a new $6,500 credit for existing homeowners who move.

“It’s ‘exit stage left’ for first-time homebuyers,” wrote Guy LeBas, an analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott.

Because the tax credit just accelerated the pace of buying, it didn’t bring any new buyers in to the market. Its just like with car sales – “cash for clunkers” just speeded up what was going to happen, anyway. Someone send Obama a note and explain that we don’t need people doing what they’re doing – we need people to starting doing new things; you know – creating wealth, and all that.

Its like dealing with the most obtuse set of people in human history; our modern liberals. They just don’t or won’t see what is going on.

Because we have to make certain that the people who created this mess – in and out of government – are protected from the consequences of their actions:

The White House stood firm on the renomination of Ben Bernanke Monday, saying a second term for the Federal Reserve chief was vital to demonstrating stability in the US financial system.

“Chairman Bernanke helped the president and the economic team steer through some very turbulent times and rough waters,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

“I believe that it sends a signal to greater and overall stability to have his nomination approved without political games. And that’s what we expect will happen later this week.”

What is it with liberals and their demand for “stability”? Its like they’re chicken. Look, we don’t need stability and we don’t need “too big to fail” banks to continue existing. We need to clear away the mess, cut taxes, spending and regulation, and just let the people get back to work.

Well, we won’t get any of that while Obama is in office – he’s too beholden to the liberal, corporate fat cats. I don’t know if he’s just in awe of rich people or that he’s hoping for a cushy job once out of the White House – whatever it is, it is the people who will pay the price for keeping Bernanke and those like him in office.

The rising tide of pro-life sentiment:

According to the estimates, the annual March for Life attracted over 250,000 people yesterday, drawing wide participation in the rally against legalized abortion.

This year’s march began with prayer offered by Anglican Priest Martin Mims.

“Forgive us for the many ways in which we have failed to respect the sanctity of every human life,” he began. “Give us courage to be a voice for the voiceless. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. We gather today to pray for our leaders. We pray especially for those who even now are making decisions about providing healthcare for all our people. Protect them from choices made out of political expediency with no mind for your truth,” Mims requested. “Remind them of your promises. Turn their hearts to the children. Lord in your mercy hear our prayer. And now to the God who showed his love for the whole world, to the gift of his only son, Jesus the Christ, and who calls us to do the same, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority before all time and now and forever, Amen.”

To quote from a rather famous American document:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – that is what we’re fighting for, once again. I believe our Founders would be proud of us, the way we have risen up and shaken the corrupt powers-that-be in our nation. But now we must drive it home – and remember that human rights are mutually supportive. If we don’t have a right to life, then our right to free speech is moot – and so, too, is our right to life if we have not the right to speak out in defense of it. We can be all free, or all slave – there is no half way in these matters.

I know a great many of my fellow conservatives feel otherwise about abortion – that it is not a good thing, but a thing they are unwilling to ban. I understand – but it is time we all started to change and realize that we are all in this together – from the unborn child to the 90 year old lingering in a nursing home, we are all humans, we are all endowed with our rights and that if the rights of one are betrayed, so are the rights of all.