1. This is What Happens When Republicans Get Milquetoast

2. Washington Post: 95% Believe Spending Cuts Are The Best Way To Cut The Deficit

3. More Pennsylvania Abortion Shops Shuttered

4. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

5. For $25, You Can Learn to Be a Marxist Troublemaker…and Grab Lunch Too!

6. Answers From A Non-Interventionist

1. This is What Happens When Republicans Get Milquetoast

There is new polling out today making its way around the bathrooms of House and Senate Republican leaders. After weeks and weeks of bending over backwards to try to show they were willing to compromise on everything, guess what?The public thinks the GOP hasn’t been compromising enough.House Republican Leaders who are more concerned with image than principle are going to fall all over themselves with this polling in a rush to compromise more. Here’s the problem I see.House Republicans have been muddying the water so much since November and painting their policy positions in pale pastels. The public voted in November with bright colors — mostly in red. The public wants Washington to stop its profligate spending. The public wants bright colors, not pastels.Please click here for the rest of the post.

2. Washington Post: 95% Believe Spending Cuts Are The Best Way To Cut The Deficit

Greg Sargent, the Washington Post’s in-house left-wing activist, has a hilarious post up analyzing the latest WaPo poll. (The post was originally entitled, “The pubic agrees with Dems, but they don’t know it,” although eventually someone caught on and fixed the typo.)Everybody has typos; what’s more enduringly amusing is Sargent’s effort at spin.If you are keeping score at home,a left-wing activist admits that 95% of the public believes spending cuts are the best way to reduce the deficit, whether or not that plan also includes tax hikes. Going to the poll itself, only 3% believe the best way to cut the deficit is simply raising taxes. And what’s more, that’s the public – not likely voters or even registered voters, but all adults.Please click here for the rest of the post.

3. More Pennsylvania Abortion Shops Shuttered

When the story of the abortion shop cum abattoir run by Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell hit the press in January the nation was shocked by the near medieval conditions encountered by women seeking access to the “safe, legal, and rare” procedure which kills over a million children each year.As we noted at the time, the conditions in Gosnell’s facility was not an aberration, rather it was the easily foreseeable consequence of a governor, Tom Ridge, electing not to have abortion shops inspected because of a personal sympathy for the butchery that occurred within. A sympathy disguised by the hackneyed formulation “I’m personally opposed to abortion, but …”If there is a single good thing to come out of this incident, other than Gosnell and most of his ghouls spending most of the rest of their lives in prison, it is the heightened level of scrutiny to the business of baby killing, a business that has managed to intimidate its way out of any regulatory regime.Please click here for the rest of the post.

4. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

Yesterday in the Politico, Jonathan Martin gave a conservatives in the mist take on the 2012 “theme” from the GOP — America ‘in decline’.I think the take is exactly opposite how he characterized it — though it is all semantics. It is not ‘America in decline’, but ‘America the Great’ that is the theme.At a time when Barack Obama is intent on taking over the economy one-fifth at a time and leftists are turning the more-likely-than-not traitor Bradley Manning into a hero, it is more and more clear that the San Francisco left that Jeanne Kirkpatrick warned us about 25 years ago has finally gotten to have their way with America.The theme is not about our nation in decline, but about letting a group of people run the nation who want us to decline.It is easy to get hung up on the doom and gloom of the 2012 Republican candidates. They are a gloomy bunch. Sure they are trying to sound optimistic, but I’ve heard most all of them speak. With few exceptions, they have the oratory skills of a gaggle of warbling albatrosses and some, worse, sound like warbling albatrosses being violated by lepers.I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Please click here for the rest of the post.

5. For $25, You Can Learn to Be a Marxist Troublemaker…and Grab Lunch Too!

You may have noticed over these last few weeks that the protesters in Wisconsin and elsewhere seem to be well trained at trouble making. It’s almost as if they have their B.S. degrees from the University of Alinsky.Well, as every good community organizer knows, you can’t astroturf without being properly trained in the science of trouble making and that is why you too can learn the dark science of Alinsky in Madison on April Fool’s Day [actually April 1st & 2nd].Please click here for the rest of the post.

6. Answers From A Non-Interventionist

About the same time as I posted a diary against the idea of US military intervention in Libya, George Will wrote a column challenging those in favor of said intervention to answer a series of questions about what they were truly trying to achieve. Now David Frum has posed a series of questions to those of us who are against the intervention.I’ve decided to take him up on his offer.Please click here for the rest of the post.