It is absolutely amazing that 350,000 people can march for life in Washington D.C. and the secular media can avoid covering it.Is it incompetent journalism or is it a deliberate distortion of the truth? The second piece on this blog from CNN makes one think that it is both. It reminds me of a Saturday Nite Live skit.

The NEWSWEEK reporter said that most people in the March were "over 60" and that there were not a lot of women!  An obvious distortion of the reality.The number of youth and women, women and children at the March is amazing and hopeful.

Actually, I thought that the media coverage of our West Coast Walk for Life, while biased and distorted, was better than previous years.

With approval ratings plummeting, the demise of health care legislation (I believe we still need health care reform for the millions without any health care,) three major political losses (Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts), the almost superhuman aura that surrounded President Obama is gone. Even his most ardent supporters who screamed in joy at his inauguration are silent and sceptical. The extreme left of the Democratic Party is totally disgusted because he has not been the champion of ending war, forcefully supporting gay marriage and not as pro-abortion as many thought he would be. Thank God that the Messianic moment was brief.

No human being can sustain these expectations. The sausage machine that is Washington and the legislative process grinds on inexorably, making even a superstar like Obama fodder for its insane propensity to talk much and accomplish little. Is our democratic system broke? I don't think so. actually, our system, through multiple checks and balances, did its job.

So, even though, there is a large part of our nature that is still looking for the Saviour and we continue to overlay our hopes and expectations on the One who looks like they can be the ONE, we find that there is only one - Christ the Lord. We are reminded to put our hope in Him and not a falllible human being. By the way, Scott Brown isn't the Messiah either.

Because of the Democratic Party effort to win a greater majority in the House of Representatives in 2008, it put forward a number of candidates who would be competitive in more conservative districts. These candidates were, invariably, pro-life.If the life issues were off the table, then the Democrats figured that they could ride the wave of "change." The decision makers were correct in their assessment and a majority of these new, conservative, pro-life Dems were elected mostly from states like Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The idea was, of course, to have such an overwhelming majority in Congress that Democrat and the Obama administration could run the table with their agenda.

In an interesting and ironic twist, this has not been the case. The pro-life dems in the House demanded that restrictions on using federal dollars for health care stay in place, and against the wishes of their leadership and a strong pro-abortion caucus, they prevailed. Hopefully, they will continue their opposition to any use of federal dollars for abortion in the final bill that comes out of the Conference Committee trying to reconcile the House and Senate versions.

And so, seemingly out of the blue, there is a new and very unexpected power base within the heart of the Democrat Party that can influence legislation. This new dynamic is good news in the short term for healthcare legislation and it might be good news in the future for a shift in the Party as a whole. It is not clear that these new Dems will be able to keep their seats in this year's election, but if a significant number of them do, they begin to change the face of the Democrat Party. Potentially, it could change the dynamics of politics in the United States.

One of the greatest ways to advance the cause of life, is to change the Democrat Party from within, by making it more and more pro-life.