No proof there will be any change. Plenty of evidence there won’t.

CNN’s Lou Dobbs is usually angry. It can be hard to listen to sometimes. But his argument that all the talk about “change” is just talk, and every indication is that things will remain the same in Washington unless there’s a grassroots uprising.

There are reasons to believe that’s true, especially for the party controlled by the abortion movement, truth be told. Look at the facts.

Richard H. Honaker, the nominee for a federal district judgeship in Wyoming, has unanimously been given the ABA judicial-evaluation committee’s highest “well qualified” rating.  His three decades of legal practice include service as a state assistant attorney general, as a public defender, as president of the state trial lawyers association, as president of the state bar, and as a member (appointed by the state supreme court) of state rules and disciplinary committees.  In addition, he served for six years in the state legislature, from 1987 to 1993—all as a Democrat.  (He later became a Republican.)

Soooo……

Why did it take the Senate Judiciary Committee nearly a year (he was nominated in March 2007) even to give him a hearing (last month)?  Why is he now being held up in committee?

The answer is as simple as it is revealing:  As a state legislator in 1991 and 1992, Honaker introduced a bill that would prohibit abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or of threat to the mother’s life, and in 1994 he worked to get that measure offered as a statewide initiative.

There it is. That nails it.

Never mind that opponents of Honaker’s nomination have pointed to nothing in his record that indicates that he doesn’t understand the difference between policymaking and judging.  Never mind that the unanimous “well qualified” rating from the ABA (which is certainly no friend of pro-lifers) means that the ABA committee determined that Honaker has “outstanding legal ability, breadth of experience, and the highest reputation for integrity” and “demonstrate[s] the capacity for sound judicial temperament.”

You know…..

Every now and then, Democrats profess to be respectful of those who disagree with the Democratic party line on abortion.  Let’s see whether, and how long, Senate Democrats’ kowtowing to pro-abortion groups on the Honaker nomination continues.

It would be great if this presidential election included a pro-life Democrat. With first principles established, it could be a real contest of ideas and policies. Some pro-life “blue dog” Democrats helped the party gain the majority in the mid-term elections in November 2006. They were shunted off to some corner after that. It’s a shame.

Some things will take longer to change, apparently.

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