Capitol Hill Republicans are circulating this clip, and for good reason.  Watch in wonder as our Law Professor President's top spokesman breezily expresses "no opinion" over whether the US Senate should meet it's legal obligation to offer and pass a FY 2013 budget:
 

Oh, wrong answer, Jay.  Why would you lamely refuse to offer any opinion on the matter when your party has already concocted a dishonest insta-excuse to deflect Tapper's question?  And why do I know Democrats' fraudulent talking points better than the White House Press Secretary?  Pay close attention, Jay -- Schumer's a real pro:
 

Senate Democratic leaders on Friday said they do not intend to bring a fiscal 2013 budget up for a floor vote. "We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year — it's done, we don't need to do it," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters on Friday. Reid and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) argued that the debt-limit agreement in August directs spending for the next year and said Senate Appropriations Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) has already asked the heads of the subcommittees to write their appropriations bills for fiscal 2013. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) has said he would probably mark up a budget resolution for 2013, but Reid recently told the Hill he didn't expect any floor action on a measure produced by the panel.

See?  "The Senate doesn't need to offer a budget this year because they've already done so," sounds so much better than an effective "no comment."  Carney does dissemble on the Budget Control Act a bit, quasi-suggesting that it's sort of a budget, but he doesn't quite own the lie the way Schumer and Reid do.  It is a lie, of course, because the debt deal only set forth general spending caps and targets; it in no way, shape, or form constitutes a budget.  Those contain detailed roadmaps on tax policy, specific appropriations priorities, and entitlement reforms.  Ask any business owner, homemaker, or Republican member of Congress whether their working definition of a budget involves "deeming" a spending celiling while offering zero details on how money is distributed.  Oh, and for the zillionth time, Congress is legally required to pass tangible budget resolutions every single year -- a task Reid's tribe hasn't even attempted in nearly three.  Carney may not care to weigh in on this elementary question, but Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wasn't nearly as bashful during recent testimony before Congress:
 

 

More than 1,000 days of uncertainty -- resulting from craven political calculation -- hinders economic growth.  Go figure.  One doesn't have to be a Fed whiz to reach that conclusion; it's common sense.  And a solid growth strategy is precisely what our ailing economy needs at the moment, to say nothing of the legal requirement aspect of all this.  Never fear, Carney assures us, President Obama will release his own budget next week.  What could go wrong?

NRO's Jim Geraghty has documented the list of broken Obama promises.  It's a long list, encompassing almost every conceivable area of governance -- nominations, budget, energy, war on terror, campaign finance (and again, as we saw this week!) -- you name it, it's there.

I won't go so far as to say the global warming movement is dead, however the real science, rather than the science made up by many global warming "experts," shows the world isn't going to end soon due to a catostrophic flood from melting polar ice caps.

Nearly 230 billion tons of ice is melting into the ocean from glaciers, ice caps, and mountaintops annually—which is actually less than previous estimates, according to new research by scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

If the amount of ice lost between 2003 and 2010 covered the United States, the whole country would be under one-and-a-half feet of water, or it'd fill Lake Erie eight times, researchers say. Ocean levels worldwide are rising about six hundredths of an inch per year, according to researcher John Wahr.

Hear that Al Gore? The sea is not rising by multiple feet in a few short years and the world isn't in a climate crisis.

But don't worry folks, they aren't really an organization dedication to abortion. From the Susan B. Anthony list:

The horrific, anti-Life remarks from Planned Parenthood directors were on full display as they celebrated the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. In an interview earlier this week, Angie Murie, executive director of Planned Parenthood Waterloo Region in Canada, was asked about sex-selection abortions. She said:

“I wrestle with gender-based abortion more than any other reason [for having an abortion]...From a macro perspective, I don’t think it is a good idea for us to be eliminating women. But if you look at it at the individual level, which is what we do, I don’t have any right to say that one person’s reason is better or worse than another’s.”

Not only is Murie's comment disturbing and immoral, but it is also pretty ironic. Whenever Planned Parenthood is threatened with funding cuts from private organizations or Congress, the executives who work there are the liberals who defend the organization take to the streets and the media to proclaim, "They're putting women's health in jeopardy!" It's almost as if they don't realize abortion affects unborn females in the womb, as fifty percent of abortions are of female babies. They'll scream women's rights all day long, while they disregard the rights of an unborn child, male or female. These are also the same liberals who claim to fight against gender discrimination in the work place, but apparently it is perfectly fine to discriminate inside the womb.

It is clear Planned Parenthood not only supports abortion because a "mistake was made," or because "the mother has the right to choose what she does with her body," but also supports abortions based on whether the mother wants a male or female child.

Donald Trump, who recently endorsed Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination, had some choice words for the former Senator after he swept Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota in Tuesday's primary.

"He lost by 19 points."

Believe it or not, 2012 is here, and today kicks off the 39th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Marriot Wardmam Hotel in Washington D.C. Over the next three days, conservative leaders from all over the country, grassroots activists, filmmakers, bloggers, college students, writers, reporters, politicians and more, will express and discuss ideas and formulate strategies about how to replace President Obama in November, while taking the country back to its conservative founding. CPAC is the largest annual gathering of conservatives.

Last year, CPAC attendance hit a record of 10,000. This year, it is expected 11,000 people will attend the conference, proving conservatism and the battle for small government ideas are alive and well. This year's schedule is packed with hard hitting speakers like Allen West, Sarah Palin, Reince Priebus, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann, Andrew Breitbart, Herman Cain, Bobby Jindal, Laura Ingraham and more. GOP presidential candidates will also speak at the event, surely in an effort to court conservative voters as the battle for the nomination rages on. CPAC is also an excellent opportunity for GOP candidates to speak with youth voters.

Stay tuned to Townhall for exclusive video interviews with the Townhall team and your favorite conservative minds. 

As the old saying goes, "It's impossible to be a little bit pregnant."  When it comes to the Obama administration floating a "compromise" for ObamaCare regulations' extremist trampling on religious liberty, it's also impossible to make a "compromise" that compels religious institutions to tell their employees where and how to access services that run counter to their religious convictions.

With a surprising sweep last night, Rick Santorum has jumped into second place in the race for Republican delegates and put substantial pressure on Mitt Romney.

Overall, Romney has 112 delegates, including endorsements from members of the Republican National Committee who automatically attend the party's national convention and can support any candidate they choose. Santorum has 72 delegates, Gingrich has 32 and Paul has nine.

The race for delegates is still in the early stages. It will take 1,144 delegates to win the GOP nomination.

There's a long road ahead, and Super Tuesday has become more imporant than ever. Texas alone will apportion more delegates on March 5 than any candidate has mustered so far, and that's just one of eleven contests that day. In between now and then, we'll go through the Arizona and Michigan primaries, with 59 delegates at stake between the two.

After having to contend with Newt Gingrich, Romney took the fight to Santorum today and acknowledged that his veil of inevitability had been pierced. "There's no such thing as coronations in presidential politics," Romney said. "It's meant to be a long process."

Political analysts have acknowledged that Santorum changed the race last night.

"I don't think this changes the title of front-runner (for Romney), but it underscores the fundamental problem he has with the party base," said Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "They just don't trust him, and they don't connect to him personally. He has serious, serious problems."

"After yesterday, I think everything's in play," said Jim Haynes, the president of the Phoenix-based Behavior Research Center, a nonpartisan market research and polling firm.

Whether or not Santorum can make significant inroads in the next month will have to be seen, but one thing's for sure: the road to the GOP nomination just got a little rockier.