Democrats at the Edge of the Cliff?

By Dave Andrusko

The startling headline read, “Democrats at the Edge of the Cliff,” and was written by a reporter I respect, Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal. Some of it has little to do with us, but parts of his op-ed are fascinating and highly relevant. (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704133804575198290459062592.html#printMode).

Pro-lifers are remarkably level-headed and even when something as ugly as ObamaCare passes, they spring back. Right now we are doing what we can in the states to minimize the damage, and gearing up to find public servants who won’t mince words: bogus health care “reform” was a bonanza for the Abortion Industry and must be changed.

(Not enough attention has been paid to this warning from NRLC’s Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics: “If not repealed before its most dangerous provisions come into effect, [ObamaCare will] result in the rationing denial of lifesaving medical treatment, and consequent premature and involuntary death, of an unknown but immense number of Americans.”)

Henninger’s column’s general theme is that Democrats have wandered into the kind of unexplored territory that requires from the electorate an abiding trust in “government.” How else could you calmly stand by while Obama and his fellow pro-abortion Democrats commander one sixth of the economy if you didn’t have a kind of blind faith?

But trust in government is dropping even faster than Obama’s approval ratings. It’s at an “historic low” of 22%, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. As for the President, Henninger writes that a Wednesday Quinnipiac poll has his approval rating down to 44%.

Bear with me a second. Henninger is writing about the public becoming gradually aware of the mind-bogging size of government. “Something unique happened in the first Obama year, about the last thing the Democratic Party needed: The veil was ripped from the true cost of government,” he writes. “This is the ghastly nightmare Democrats have always needed to keep locked in a crypt.”

How this unveiling happened applies directly to us and the life issues. Not so long ago, news, as especially pro-life news, could in a sense, be kept “locked in crypt.” But not anymore. “ Email lists, 24/7 newspapers, blogs, TV and talk radio—the spending beast is running naked,” Henninger argues.

For the same reason Henninger alludes to, we can realistically hope to eventually expose the pro-abortion/pro-rationing “beast” in ObamaCare: the Internet.

One of the most efficient ways people continue to learn the truth about ObamaCare is to go to http://nrlactioncenter.com and to http://powellcenterformedicalethics.blogspot.com.

There are other resources as well. In addition to the main NRLC website (www.nrlc.org), we try to do our part at Today’s News & Views. For background material and in-depth analyses, pro-lifers can rely on National Right to Life News.

And you can view a scorecard for the important pro-life roll call votes for all members of the House and Senate at http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/home.

All of these outlets will be essential tools in future fights with Obama and the pro-abortion leadership of the House and Senate.

Be sure to access all these outlets, particular “Today’s News & Views” (you can get on the mailing list at http://nrlc.org/join_our_mailing_list.htm), “National Right to Life News Today” (www.nationalrightrighttolifenews.org), and by subscribing to National Right to Life News (see http://nrlc.org/news/subscribe.html and call us at 202-626-8828.)