Blogs For Victory

It could come to this:

Obstetrician and gynecologist Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) has said that pro-life medical practitioners will “go to jail” rather than violate their conscience if the Obama administration reverses federal conscience protection rules.

In an interview with CNSNews.com on Friday in Washington, D.C., Sen. Coburn was asked what he thought would happen if the administration reverses the policy.

“I think a lot of us will go to jail,” he said. “Let’s see them prosecute the first one of us for not doing that.”

And they will, too – and millions of us will also line up to go to jail, if it comes to that. If the Culture of Death people think we’re just pro-lifers for kicks, they have quite another thing coming their way if they try to force pro-life people to advance the Culture of Death. We will not betray our beliefs – we are pro-life at the command of God, and we cannot deny Life without denying God.

Think carefully, liberals, what you are doing here – you are opening up a very bad can of worms; you are, indeed, writing the title page to the book to be called “Civil War II”. Unless you change your mind, and realize that while you might think Life to be trivial, we don’t.

Just disgusting:

Alaska State Sen. Kim Elton, one of the leading officials to pursue an investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin during the heat of the presidential campaign, has taken a high-level job in the Interior Department.

Palin reacted in a short statement Monday, the day Elton announced his move to Washington.

“Senator Elton pledged his allegiance to President Obama last summer,” said the governor. “We wish him well as he moves on and hope that he uses this job for Alaska’s benefit.”

Elton did the job – when Obama needed some muck to be thrown at Palin, Elton was found scurrying around under a rock and was set loose on the governor. It profits a man nothing to gain the whole world, and yet lose his soul – but for Interior?

You don’t have to take my word for it… the market speaks for itself.

UPDATE, by Mark Noonan:

From the Wall Street Journal:

…after five weeks in office, it’s become clear that Mr. Obama’s policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence — and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth.

The Democrats who now run Washington don’t want to hear this, because they benefit from blaming all bad economic news on President Bush. And Mr. Obama has inherited an unusual recession deepened by credit problems, both of which will take time to climb out of. But it’s also true that the economy has fallen far enough, and long enough, that much of the excess that led to recession is being worked off. Already 15 months old, the current recession will soon match the average length — and average job loss — of the last three postwar downturns. What goes down will come up — unless destructive policies interfere with the sources of potential recovery.

Huh? Well, you see, Obama and Co are banking on a normal business cycle picking up later this year or early next year to provide the funds necessary to cover the bonanza of spending they’ve enacted this year. It works like that, right? I mean, an economy goes up, up, up and then hits a slump and goes down, down, down…and then its back up, right? No necessarily. One might recall that period from 1929 until 1941 when things never really went back up – and had not WWII happened, there is no indication that we would have reached 1928 equivalent prosperity as long as FDR’s New Deal policies were in place. In other words, the Great Depression could have simply become “normal times”.

Here’s a news story to sober up you liberals:

U.S. companies, consumers and communities may grow so addicted to government financial help that cutting them off could trigger another recession soon after the current one ends.

Between the U.S. Federal Reserve’s trillions of dollars in lending programs, the $787 billion stimulus package and $700 billion — and counting — in bank bailout funds, no one can accuse officials of soft-pedaling their crisis response.

But there is increasing concern that when the flow of public money subsides — beginning next year when much of that stimulus package is spent — the economy still won’t be strong enough to stand on its own.

“The stuttering attempts to repair the banking and lending mechanisms so far by the new administration suggests that by late 2010, the specter of a second dip into recession will be looming large,” said Merrill Lynch economist Sheryl King.

My friend Nevada Pundit opines that if you dump that much money on the economy, you’re going to have at least a temporary positive effect. In other words, as we get into late 2009 and early 2010, we might see some signs that things are getting better – and you just watch the MSM praise it as the strongest economic recovery ever. But it won’t continue – it can’t continue. We’re not building wealth – we’re just spending money, and spending money we don’t actually have…and the money we borrow now won’t be able to be used for new business start-ups and the money we print will just devalue all money currently in circulation. The economy will go down, and go down rather hard – and now I’m not so sure that Nevada Pundit is even partially correct…with stock values collapsing we’re losing real wealth faster than Obamunism can temporarily create fake wealth.

What will you Obamaniacs do? Spend more money? Instead of $3,600,000,000,000.00, spend $7,200,000,000,000.00? If spending three trillion is going to work, why don’t we spend seven? Unless we conservatives can gain enough power in 2010 to thwart Obama, we’re heading for a ten year long (at least) economic depression. Stupid, stupid, stupid…and all we have to do to avoid it is start making, mining and growing things and getting government out of the way of such activities. Do that, and you liberals would have more tax money to spend then you ever dreamed of…but, you’re too short sighted, too narrowly bigoted and intellectually incurious.

Like peas and carrots:

Word today that yet another Barack Obama appointee has a little problem with taxes — a $10,000 problem.

Ron Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas who would be the White House chief trade representative if confirmed, didn’t pay taxes on some speaking fees he donated to his alma mater and he tried to write off the full $17,000 costs of his Dallas Mavericks season tickets.

We’ve gone entirely through the Looking Glass here – a completely buffoonish Administration headed by a man who doesn’t know what he’s doing, staffed by people who view government as a means of personal enrichment and taxes as something only Republicans have to pay.

Its going to be a long four years – but we can make it not quite so long in 2010.

Hot Air Blog has the details.

Conservatives who backed Obama – what the @*&^! were you thinking?

You know, Barry, it might just be time to cool it on the parties:

The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.

Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America’s head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays.

The stately East Room, where portraits of George and Martha Washington adorn the walls, was transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented Stevie Wonder with the nation’s highest award for pop music on Wednesday.

A week before that, the foot-stomping sounds of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a female a cappella group, filled the East Room for a Black History Month program first lady Michelle Obama held for nearly 200 sixth- and seventh-graders from around the city.

Cocktails were sipped during at least three such receptions to date, all held on Wednesdays.

Bookending the midweek activity were a Super Bowl party for select Democratic and Republican lawmakers and a dinner for governors, the new administration’s first black-tie affair. It was capped with a performance by the 1970s pop group Earth, Wind and Fire. And a conga line.

People are losing their jobs, losing their savings, losing their homes…and Obama is having a conga line. Not just stupid, its also grossly insensitive.

Obama nominates pro-abortion Governor Sebelius:

On Saturday February 28, 2009, the Obama Administration announced that on Monday the President will nominate Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. This President removed limitations on abortion by overturning the Mexico City Policy and recently announced he will remove the conscience protections for pro-life medical practitioners.

It appears that the release of news was timed to occur on the same day that “Catholics United”, a group which works in concert with “Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good”, launched its new web site entitled “Catholics for Sebelius”. On that advocacy site this group stretches accuracy beyond anything they have done before. They argue that this Governor who has been told by her Bishop, Joseph Naumann, to refrain from presenting herself for Holy Communion until she takes “the necessary steps for amendment of her life which would include a public repudiation of her previous efforts and actions in support of laws and policies sanctioning abortion” is an acceptable choice for Catholics. One is welcomed to this site with these words “Catholics across the nation are rallying behind the nomination of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Here you’ll find information about Gov. Sibelius’ record on issues important to Catholics, and an opportunity to register your support for her nomination.”

Let me begin with words from Francis Cardinal George which expose the error behind this organization’s claim: “Catholic Social thought is built upon the foundational truth that every single human life has an inherent human dignity and must be respected and protected. The unborn child, who is alive and is a member of the human family, cannot defend himself or herself. Good law defends the defenseless. Our present laws permit unborn children to be privately killed. Laws that place unborn children outside the protection of law destroy both the children killed and the common good, which is the controlling principle of Catholic social teaching. One cannot favor the legal status quo on abortion and also be working for the common good.”

The creation of the “astroturf” netroots for Sebelius indicates that Obama and Co are determined to confuse the issue of Catholic social teaching in 2012 as much – or more – than they did in 2008. It was a very clever, very cynical campaign for Catholic support in 2008 – pretend that one is not a pro-abortion fanatic and work the rest of Catholic social teaching for all its worth, and have one or two Catholics willing to sell out be your front men. It worked – Obama secured a majority of Catholic votes in 2008, reversing what happened in 2004 and possibly ensuring himself election to the Presidency of the United States (its not completely clear if Catholics, voting as they did in 2004, would have turned the election to McCain – but it sure would have been a heck of a lot closer, if they had).

On the day after the election as we Catholics reviewed the exit poll data, we were dismayed that we had failed so miserably to impart the truth about Obama’s de-facto pro-abortionism. But we also figured out quickly where we had failed – we hadn’t been as clear as possible that Catholic social teaching requires as its base an absolute defense of human life from conception until natural death. Wise to the ways of Obama, we’re not going to make the same mistake in 2012 – but now we see that Obama determined to try a repeat, and Governor Sebelius is going to be built up as an orthodox Catholic in Obamaniac talking points so that opposition to her – and, by extension, Obama – appears to contravene Church teaching.

Nothing doing – we’re out of the gate early, and we’re not going to let anyone forget that Governor Sebelius, far from being a stalwart for Catholic social teaching, is actually an excommunicate Catholic and member of the Culture of Death and until she repents, she can’t be properly considered worthy of Catholic political support.

Day after day, it gets clearer that a) Obama doesn’t have a clue and b) isn’t committed to protected this country…

Washington has told Moscow that Russian help in resolving Iran’s nuclear program would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary, a Russian daily said on Monday, citing White House sources.

U.S. President Barack Obama made the proposal on Iran in a letter to his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, Kommersant said, referring to unidentified U.S. officials.

Nixing our missile shield based on the good will of Russia and Iran?

Like one of George Romero’s zombies, it just never dies – and here’s why:

…why are Keynes’ thoroughly debunked notions still in vogue? …

This question appears at first a lot harder to answer. …

I believe there are two answers. First, a dumbed-down American populace, trained to believe that economic theory is deadly dull and of no practical use, tends to cover their ears when such stuff is discussed.

But the second reason is far more obvious. Imagine any of our egotistical and money- and power-hungry members of Congress or chief executives (of either party) today announcing, “Gee, this economic downturn sure is a misery. Too bad there’s nothing the central government can do but to slash spending till our budget is in surplus so Washington is no longer crowding out private borrowers, meantime putting us back on the silver standard and shutting down the Federal Reserve. So all you lobbyists here to plead for special favors just might as well go home. Store’s closed.”

What? Give up the greatest excuse since Hitler and Tojo for enacting every pork barrel spending spree they can imagine? Are you crazy?!

Instead, what passes for “change” in Washington today are a chief executive and a Congress so desperate to place the heir-apparent to the guys who got us into this mess — Timothy Geithner, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — in charge of their government monetary policy, that they avert their eyes and imitate Sgt. Schultz (“I see Nuh-think!”) when it turns out their guy failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in personal income taxes.

If we really want to change things, then we have to cut spending down to the basics for survival and safety and then kill any regulation which burdens the tasks of making, mining and growing things. We go down Obama’s road, and we’ll just be more broke at the end of it than we are now. Meanwhile, if we go Obama-lite in a new, improved centrist-loving GOP, then we’ll just arrive at complete national bankruptcy a little later and pure Obamunism would have us do. We need conservatism – pure, fresh conservatism, from top to bottom.