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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From the Associated Press:

NEW YORK — These are boom times for conservative authors.

Michelle Malkin’s "Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies" spent weeks at No. 1 on The New York Times nonfiction list. Sales have been strong for Dick Morris’ anti-Obama "Catastrophe" and the reissue of "The Five Thousand Year Leap," by W. Cleon Skousen.

And Sarah Palin may top them all.

In a feat usually reserved for the likes of J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown, Palin’s book was No. 1 on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com just two days after Harper announced it had moved up the release date from the spring to Nov. 17 and that the memoir’s title was "Going Rogue."

Palin’s 432-page memoir, still No. 1 on Friday, has been given a first printing of 1.5 million copies and booksellers have begun fighting for sales. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cut the $28.99 list price by more than half, to $13.50, and Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com are offering "Going Rogue" for $15.65, a 45 percent discount.

Although she resigned abruptly last summer as governor, and the Republican ticket of Sen. John McCain and Palin was decisively beaten in the 2008 election, "Going Rogue" will surely outsell the memoir of her Democratic counterpart, Vice President Joe Biden, and likely approach the million-selling heights of President Barack Obama’s "The Audacity of Hope."

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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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Sarah Palin, former Republican vice presidential candidate and governor of Alaska, stunned everyone, including those in her party when she announced  July 3 that she was stepping down as governor of Alaska. Palin has not publicly stated why she did so, though those supposedly on the inside claim her reasoning to be everything from a potential presidential bid in 2012 to money.

–Maurice Williams, the Underground staff writer

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Since President Obama announced that he selected  Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring justice David Souter, conservative pundits have been working overtime to dig up dirt on her. Rush Limbaugh and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called Sotomayor a racist, causing the ire of the White House.

–Maurice Williams, The Underground staff writer

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