Obama to Repubs: Stop Whining! Think America

As hundreds of “Tea Party” members rallied outside the nation’s capitol, carrying American flags and signs that read, “Don’t tread on me,” members of  the U.S. House of Representatives  voted on  landmark healthcare legislation that  ensured that most Americans receive health care.

The legislation, which will cost $940 billion over a decade,  also bars insurers from denying coverage on the basis of existing medical conditions and cut federal deficits by an estimated $138 billion over a decade.

In the countdown to the vote, Democratic House leaders and President Barack Obama were able to resolve  long-standing rifts over abortion and gain the votes needed from Bart Stupak and other anti-abortion Democrats to pass the overhaul by announcing that the president will issue an executive order reaffirming laws already on the books that prevent taxpayer monies from going towards abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or threats to the life of the mother.

According to the Associated Press,” Passage of a central health care bill already cleared by the Senate would send it to Obama for his signature. That still would leave one more step, a companion package of changes would go to the Senate.”

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Democrats suffered two surprising defeats in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races yesterday.

In spite of much campaigning by President Obama himself, New Jersey’s incumbent Democratic Governor Jon Corzine was still defeated by the GOP candidate, Chris Christie. New Jersey is considered a blue state so this was a big upset.

Cristie, a former attorney general with a reputation for busting corruption, is the first Republican in twelve years to win a state office in New Jersey. Corzine, a one-term governor, ceded the election when Cristie was winning 49 to 45 percent.

In Virginia, Republican Bob McDonnell defeated Democrat Creigh Deeds by a 20 point lead. President Obama had also campaigned for Deeds. (Side note: this makes President Obama 0 for 3 in his ability to influence vote outcomes recently, if we include his heavy campaigning for the Olympics to be held in Chicago which was also defeated.)

Although one would hope that Christian Americans were waking up to trusting their faith rather than their economy, these two Democratic defeats were probably more a sign of citizens’ dissatisfaction with failing economy and the threat of more taxes.

In New York, Democrat Bill Owens defeated the Conservative Party’s hope, Doug Hoffman by just three percent; this could be because the people who have “always voted Republican” went with the party’s decision to support Democrat Owens when the very liberal Republican Scozzafava dropped out. 

It is a mystery why the Republican Party threw their support behind Owens. The option to support the Conservative Party’s Hoffman  was a lost golden opportunity. Democrats would never throw their weight behind a conservative. Republicans lose ground every time they make this type of compromise.

According to UPI, Republican National Chairman Michael Steele didn’t see this as a prediction of 2010 Congressional upsets yet; saying the party has a lot of work to do.

In Maine, the gay marriage amendment did not pass – not by the voters, that is. According to what has happened in other states, gay marriage advocates will probably take this to the Maine Supreme Court and try to get the vote overturned as a violation of the Constitution. 

After all this analysis, did the voters really decide who won? It isn’t Democrats and Republicans that matter—there are Christians in both camps. What matters is whom God feels are the appropriate officers for the appropriate times, according to what He sees his people indulging themselves in.  

“For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.” Romans 13:1 NASB

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As the White House pushes for a new healthcare plan U.S., lawmakers in the U.S. Congress are under increased pressure—to actually read the bill. With the economic bailout bill, many in Congress signed off without actually reading the document, which some have said they now regret. The bill which pushes 1000 pages aims to revamp the U.S.’s existing system.

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