Show Us The Money

The following is a statement from Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America on President Obama’s speech on health care to a joint session of Congress:

 

President Obama made many promises about the health care bill he will sign, paid for by savings from cutting out waste and fraud from existing government programs. But Americans won’t be fooled by rhetoric.

If it won’t use taxpayer funds for abortion – put it in writing in the bill.

If it will protect doctors from violating their conscience by forcing them to commit abortions, put it in clear, no- nonsense language in the bill.

If it will cut waste and fraud – prove that government can and will do it before creating new government programs.

If it allows people to keep the plan they have, then let it allow people to choose the plan they want.

If it requires every person to pay for government- approved insurance, be honest with Americans that they will be punished if they choose a different plan for themselves and their families.

 

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Concerned Women for America is the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization.

 

Scripture, Read at the Funeral of Edward Kennedy (Graphic Image Warning)

Scripture from this passage was delivered, toward the beginning of the memorial service

“When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’

“Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

“Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’

“Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’

Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’

And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

- Matthew 25:31-46 (NKJV)

A telling coincidence: this contains the Scripture quoted by the audacity of Barack Obama, approximately one year ago, at the Saddleback Forum, where he skirted the question, “When does life begin?”

Life begins with the least of these, my brethren.

Obama vs. Obamacare: Funding Abortion (Who’s Lying?)

Obama vs. Obamacare: Is there going to be funding for abortions. We are hearing two different stories from Barack Obama.

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag: ObamaCare May Fund Abortions

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag has not ruled out that ObamaCare may fund abortions with your taxpayer money.

 

Women’s Coalition for Justice: Conservative Women Leaders Speak Out on Sotomayor

Members of the Women’s Coalition for Justice released the following statements in advance of the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor beginning next Monday.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of the Susan B. Anthony List, stated,

“Women are best protected by the rule of law — and blind justice. Their rights are most endangered when personal preference, ideology or painful personal history inform judgment. Susan B. Anthony and her early feminist compatriots fought for a human rights standard sustained only through blind justice. When evidence of personal preference appears in any Supreme Court nominee’s judgment, it should give all women pause. Sonia Sotomayor’s record of support for judicial activism and her work for the pro-abortion Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund offer little comfort that she will be a friend to the unborn on the Supreme Court. Given what we know about Sonia Sotomayor’s own judicial philosophy, including her support of policymaking from the bench, senators have just cause to reject her appointment to the United States Supreme Court.”

Genevieve Wood, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, The Heritage Foundation, stated,

“I am troubled by Judge Sotomayor’s rejection of Justice O’Connor’s favored adage that a wise old man would reach the same conclusion as a wise old woman. It is deeply offensive that she has suggested that the sexes and ethnicities ‘have basic differences in logic and reasoning,’ and even more offensive that she believes it is somehow patriotic to indulge in gender or ethnic biases. Her statements raise grave concerns about whether she can truly be impartial and the current defense that she simply endorses including different perspectives doesn’t hold water. The Senators must ask challenging questions to determine whether she believes that a wise woman can reach the same conclusion as a wise man, or whether she intends to bring bias, as she has suggested, even to most cases.”

Connie Mackey, Senior Vice President for FRCAction remarked,

“I reject the admonition of Senator Chuck Schumer that opposing the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor will cause the Republican Party to lose women’s vote permanently. I believe his crystal ball is cloudy when it comes to women in America. Women think independently and most women will see that Sonia Sotomayor is a judicial activist who will use the courts to make policy reflective of her own personal judgments as opposed to ruling based upon the tenets put forth by the Constitution. Her career as an activist is well-documented and disqualifies her from taking the 9th seat on the United States Supreme Court.”

Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life remarked,

“It’s important for the American people to understand that the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court will dramatically shift the dynamics of the Court. Her record of activism in support of a radical pro-abortion agenda is clear and documented. This is a judge with a record significantly worse than Judge Souter’s. We are asking the Senate Judiciary Committee to seriously consider the consequences of confirming a Supreme Court justice whose radical record shows she would rule against all common-sense legal protections for the unborn, including parental notification, informed consent and bans on partial- birth abortion. The American people will not tolerate a nominee who is outside the mainstream of American public opinion.”

Wendy Wright, President of Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee stated,

“Sonia Sotomayor’s record reveals she lacks the primary characteristic required of a judge — impartiality. She has used her position as a judge to deny equal justice to people based on their ethnicity. She worked with organizations that aggressively fought against common-sense regulations on abortion. Her flippant dismissal of cases and unwillingness to provide Constitutional reasoning for her decisions exposes her arrogance, disrespect for our judicial system and the people whose lives are dramatically impacted by her decisions. Through her work as a judge and in organizations, she has denied people equal opportunity to make a living because of the color of their skin, preborn babies their right to live, and women the right not to be exploited by abortionists. After giving her the benefit of the doubt, her record of giving preferences to certain classes of people and denying equal justice to others obliges Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee to oppose her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor has disqualified herself from the U.S. Supreme Court. Senators need to set aside their party loyalty and do their Constitutional duty to uphold equal justice for all by opposing Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination.”

Also see Worse than Souter: Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Abortion & Other Life Issues

 

So now your taxpayer dollars are paying for abortions other countries. Happy Independence Day, America.

Yes, seriously. Our pro-abortion (up through birth) POTUS is is pretty straightforward on this, so I’ll let him speak for himself. The following is from the White House’s web site.

Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning
MEMORANDUM FOR

THE SECRETARY OF STATE

THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SUBJECT: Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(f)(1)), prohibits nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive Federal funds from using those funds “to pay for the performance of abortions as a method of family planning, or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions.”  The August 1984 announcement by President Reagan of what has become known as the “Mexico City Policy” directed the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand this limitation and withhold USAID funds from NGOs that use non-USAID funds to engage in a wide range of activities, including providing advice, counseling, or information regarding abortion, or lobbying a foreign government to legalize or make abortion available.  The Mexico City Policy was in effect from 1985 until 1993, when it was rescinded by President Clinton.  President George W. Bush reinstated the policy in 2001, implementing it through conditions in USAID grant awards, and subsequently extended the policy to “voluntary population planning” assistance provided by the Department of State.

These excessively broad conditions on grants and assistance awards are unwarranted.  Moreover, they have undermined efforts to promote safe and effective voluntary family planning programs in foreign nations.  Accordingly, I hereby revoke the Presidential memorandum of January 22, 2001, for the Administrator of USAID (Restoration of the Mexico City Policy), the Presidential memorandum of March 28, 2001, for the Administrator of USAID (Restoration of the Mexico City Policy), and the Presidential memorandum of August 29, 2003, for the Secretary of State (Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning).  In addition, I direct the Secretary of State and the Administrator of USAID to take the following actions with respect to conditions in voluntary population planning assistance and USAID grants that were imposed pursuant to either the 2001 or 2003 memoranda and that are not required by the Foreign Assistance Act or any other law:  (1) immediately waive such conditions in any current grants, and (2) notify current grantees, as soon as possible, that these conditions have been waived.  I further direct that the Department of State and USAID immediately cease imposing these conditions in any future grants.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

BARACK OBAMA

THE WHITE HOUSE, January 23, 2009.

H/T to Emery McClendon of www.armad.net.

Fatal Position

Just go for it! They deserve it for leaving their stupid signs laying around. It’s not like you’re ripping up a real baby or anything!

For more fun, visit www.DiversityLane.com

 

Should Notre Dame Lose “Catholic” Status?

Take the poll in the right side bar at Faultline USA. Five days left on the poll. So far 72% of 100 polled say YES.

Despite the fact that Notre Dame University has a long tradition of extending graduation speaking invitations to sitting American Presidents, this invitation to President Obama is not about Obama, but about Notre Dame. The real issue is about what it means to be a “Catholic” University.

President Obama’s speech Sunday  to the 2009 graduating class of Notre Dame, and his award of an honorary degree, is a slap in the face of Roman Catholicism because of his strong outspoken pro-choice abortion beliefs and his support for federal funding of stem-cell research.

America, You Asked For It!, explains the dilemma this way:

The problem, of course, stems from Notre Dame’s Catholic roots and Obama’s position on the sanctity of human life in its embryonic stage. The Catholic Church “has always condemned abortion as a grave evil” and condemns stem cell research on the basis that “It is immoral to produce human embryos destined to be exploited as disposable ‘biological material.” These views are polar opposites of the President’s positions on abortion and stem cell research.

Moral Outcry explains it this way:

This is a travesty for a Catholic institution to be honoring the man behind some of the most liberal, pro-abortion agendas this nation has ever seen. In the spirit of intellectual openness, the powers-that-be have seen fit to acquiesce to the status quo of the pro-abortion agenda that’s steamrolling through the government right now.

It would appear that money, power, status, and untold legal entanglements would make it very, very difficult for the Catholic Church to punish Notre Dame for this affront to the churches’ basic teachings.

According to LifeSiteNews.com, “Fr. John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame University, sits on the board of directors of Millennium Promise, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty in Africa that promotes contraceptives and abortion, it has been revealed.”

The finding comes as the controversy over President Obama’s award and speech at the University reaches a fever pitch in the last week before the event. As the president of Notre Dame, Fr. Jenkins has received the majority of the heat for the scandal. However, despite the criticism of over 70 U.S. bishops and over 350,000 petitioners, Jenkins has steadfastly continued to defend the university’s honoring of the president. In a letter to graduating students dated this past Monday, Jenkins said that Obama is “a remarkable figure in American history and I look forward to welcoming him to Notre Dame.”

According to UPI, “Bishop John D’Arcy, who oversees the region’s diocese, said he would not attend Sunday’s ceremony.”

President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred,” D’Arcy said in a statement.

The latest Gallop poll shows that for the first time, more Americans see themselves as pro-life rather than pro-choice. Still I have to wonder what this really means in terms of walking the walk of faith?

Despite the fact that Fox news has been featuring this story for weeks, the actual fact that only hundreds of pro-life activist Catholics from across the country plan to attend a peaceful protest in South Bend, Ind. is a sign that belief in pro-life appears to be more virtual than real.

Pro-Life Action League members also will begin their civil disobedience effort off-campus and then join the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society at the prayer vigil on campus to coincide with the commencement ceremony. Additional arrests are possible, if not expected.

“We’re going have graphic pictures of abortion and what abortion does to babies and we’ll also have signs that will say ‘Obama = Abortion’ and ‘Shame on Notre Dame,’” Gura said.

Citizens for a Pro-Life Society will be carrying signs ranging from the “very graphic to very simple,” Parran told FOXNews.com.

According to ABC News, “Obama won the Catholic vote in last year’s election, 54-45 over Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Twenty-seven percent of voters identified themselves as Catholic, according to national exit polling.”

Note to the Pope, Cardinals, and Bishops: There are some Catholics, however, that understand the actual cost of walking the walk of their faith.

This year, for the first time in more than 100 years, Notre Dame will not present its most prestigious award, the Laetare Medal, because the Catholic scholar who won it, Mary Ann Glendon, turned it down.

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Catholic Priest Arrested at Catholic University for Upholding Catholic Values: Obama to Receive Honorary Ph.D. Later Today

The following is a video of Father Norman Weslin’s arrest at Notre Dame University on Friday May 15, 2009, for protesting abortion. Protesters have been going to Notre Dame this week to protest President Obama’s speech during the commencement ceremonies, and especially the conferment of an honorary doctorate on the President. Obama is the most pro-abortion President in our Nation’s history and has a record of supporting not only abortion on demand but also the procedure known as “partial birth abortion,” which is controversial even among “pro-choice” advocates.

 

(Hat-Tip Lisa Miller)

 

The Arrogant Obamanation: Abortionist-in-Chief

With the controvercial advent of Obama’s speech at the commencement ceremony of Catholic University Notre Dame on May 17, here is a reminder of the actions he has taken against American Christians…

• In 1997, Obama voted to allow live birth abortion (SB 230)
• In 2000, Obama voted to allow state funding of abortion and induced miscarriages (HB 709)
• In 2002, Obama voted against protecting newborns as a part of the Born Alive Infant Protection Package (SB 1661); he deems it proper to deny all care to a child who is born alive during abortion process and instead leave them to wither away and die on tables in special rooms

As President of the United states he has continued with his extremist position…

• November 19, 2008: Obama nominates pro-abortion former Senator Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services Secretary.
• November 20, 2008: Obama adds former National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) legal director Dawn Johnsen to his Department of Justice Review Team and later appoints her Assistant Attorney General for the Office of the Legal Counsel.
• November 24, 2008: Obama appoints Ellen Moran, former director of the pro-abortion group Emily’s List, as his White House communications director.
• November 24, 2008: Obama puts former Emily’s List board member Melody Barnes in place as his director of the Domestic Policy Council.
• November 30, 2008: Obama names pro-abortion Senator Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State.
• December 10, 2008: Obama selects pro-abortion former Clinton administration official Jeanne Lambrew as deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform.
• December 10, 2008: Obama transition team publishes memo from dozens of pro-abortion groups listing the actions they want him to take.
• January 5, 2009: Obama picks pro-abortion Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as the Democratic National Committee chairman.
• January 6, 2009: Obama chooses Thomas Perrelli, the lawyer who represented Terri Schiavo’s husband Michael, as the third highest attorney in the Justice Department.
• January 22, 2009: Obama releases statement reiterating support for Roe v. Wade, the decision that has allowed 50 million abortions since 1973
• January 23, 2009: Obama overturns the Mexico City Policy, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions abroad.
• January 26, 2009: Obama nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, James B. Steinberg, advocates taxpayer funding of abortion.
• January 29, 2009: Obama nominates abortionist David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General.
• February 12, 2009: Obama nominates pro-abortion Elena Kagan to serve as Solicitor General.
• February 27, 2009: Obama starts the process of overturning pro-life conscience protections put in place by President Bush.
• February 28, 2009: Obama nominates pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to become Secretary of Health and Human Services.
• March 5, 2009: The Obama Administration shuts out pro-life groups from attending a White House sponsored health care summit.
• March 9, 2009: Obama signs an executive order allowing taxpayer money to fund embryonic stem cell research.
• March 10, 2009: Obama creates a new foreign policy position for women’s issues filled by abortionist Melanne Verveer.
• March 10, 2009: Obama reverses an executive order calling for research into obtaining embryonic stem cells without harming human life.
• March 11, 2009: Obama creates a new agency known as the White House Council on Women and Girls, led by abortion advocate Tina Tchen.
• March 11, 2009: Obama administration officials at the United Nations lie about the negative effects of abortion and demand an unlimited right to abortion.
• March 17, 2009: Obama names pro-abortion federal judge David Hamilton to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
• March 20, 2009: The White House announces that President Obama will give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame.
• March 26, 2009: Obama announces $50 million for the UN Population Fund, aka. the Chinese forced abortions program.
• April 15, 2009: The Obamanation’s Department of Homeland Security labels pro-lifers potential terrorists.
• April 22, 2009: Obama administration’s Food and Drug Administration changes policy to allow 17-year-old girls to obtain Plan B contraceptive pills without a prescription
• Eusebius Beltran, the Catholic Archbishop of Oklahoma City, stated: “President Obama, by word and action, has approved of abortion and other atrocities against human life. Therefore he deserves no recognition at a Catholic institution.”

Currently Operation Rescue is working to put a stop to the upcoming debacle, and many Americans [such as I] plan to protest there.

Sometimes you reap what you sow. This is what America voted for, and what America must now work to correct.

Also see:

• Forgive us our Trespasses – Alan Keyes goes to Notre Dame to get Arrested
• Arrested at Notre Dame; Statement by Randall A. Terry

 

Abortion is Super Fun! Continued…The “Real” Crazy Pete’s Abortion Barn

The following is a follow-up to Abortion is Super Fun!, and comes to us from Christina, of the Real Choice Blog.

Aren’t we just SO GLAD that current “pro-choice” laws have taken abortions out of the back alley’s and made them safer for women? /sarc

 

 

CNSNews: Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It

In the “Are you KIDDING Me?!” category, CNSNews.com is reporting that our illustrious #LibHippo-in-Chief apparently wanted the recognition of lifting Bush’s Presidential ban on embryonic stem cell research – without actually having to pay for research that has now been proven to be unnecessary and ineffective:

On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”

The provision was buried in the 465-page omnibus appropriations bill that Obama signed Wednesday. Known as the Dickey-Wicker amendment, it has been included in the annual appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services every fiscal year since 1996…Continue reading on CNSNews.com >>

Change we can believe in?

 

Jill Stanek on Obama, Abortion & FOCA + Sam Sewell: Is Obama a Pathological Narcissist?

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Tonight…

BARACK OBAMA,
ABORTION PUSHER,
NARCISSIST

JILL STANEK is the special guest on “The Awakening w/ Hanen & Arlen,” on The Sentinel Radio Network, 3/2 at 9pm ET,,,6pm PT

BARACK OBAMA, the ABORTION PUSHER – JILL STANEK, of the top pro-life blog, Pro-Life Pulse will tell us what Premier Obama and the Pelosi Politburo are doing to further the all-9-month abortion holocaust, worldwide. Jill is the former nurse who discovered infanticide in Illinois and lead the battle against Obama, to protect born alive infants.

then…

BARACK OBAMA, a PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSIST? — That is the conclusion of authors Dr. Sam Vaknin and Ali Sina. This and other concerns about Obama’s personality are discussed by SAM SEWELL, licensed psychotherapist.

Sam also hosts the TSRN program, “Call the Shrink” on Friday evenings. He studies Obama and the movement for a controlled society. Sam is also a former USN intelligence officer. I.O. highly recommends his expose’ of the Alinsky/Cloward-Piven path of destruction, “How to Create a Crisis and Steal a Nation.”

As you listen, join our chat room at www.tsrn.us/chat.
You may also call to ask questions, contribute suggestions or just listen, at 646-727-2652.
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Abortion is Super Fun!

From Stephen Crowder. Also see:

• The Obama Abortion Agenda (.pdf).
• Oklahoma’s Sally Kern Files Resolution Opposing Federal “Freedom of Choice” Act Supported by Obama

 

Hat-Tip: Vincent Vlemx