Now let's see ... where did The Community Organizer spend most of his weekend? Oh yeah ... I seem to remember that he spent much of the weekend in New Jersey to campaign for Governor John Corzine. Joe Biden went there too. All for naught. Chris Christie won ... a Republican winning in a heavily Democrat State ... and winning in the face of intense campaigning by Obama.

Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia won big ... that would be by 18%.

The White House, predictably, is saying that neither of these races is a reflection on the job Barack Obama has been doing. That's the exact same thing The White House would say if the president were a Republican and Democrats had taken two Governorships from Republicans. We're also told that Obama wasn't watching election returns last night; he was watching basketball. Imagine that.

As for the 23rd District of New York? That's where the liberal Republican candidate Dede Scuzzywhatsit withdrew from the race and threw her support to the Democrat. I'm still trying to figure that one out. One thing seems certain ... New York needs to do something about their Republican leadership .. and this Michael Steele thing isn't working out all that well either.

Yeah ... that's when the voters elected Barack Obama. If you've been scanning the Internet you've seen no shortage of news stories about disappointed - and sometimes disgusted - voters who actually thought they were voting for some type of wonderful change in Washington.

I think the retrospective on Obama's first year should really be saved until the one-year mark from his coronation, not the election. I will say this ... Obama has been far worse than I would have ever imagined. Any promises he made about transparency and bipartisanship in Washington have turned out to be a complete joke. He has shown absolutely no understanding of the role of capitalism and our free markets in the creation of our amazing standard of living in America. He has treated the Constitution as a nuisance rather than a blueprint for governance.

For many years I've been talking about politicians who believe that America's greatness comes from government. Obama is the embodiment of that principal.

Others have said this .. but Obama is completely in over his head. This is a job he was simply not prepared to handle. He became president not on the basis of accomplishment, but on the basis of charisma and a well-orchestrated campaign. His election was a crowning achievement of our system of government education. He certainly has the potential of destroying this country as we know it. The ballot box still works ... for now. I truly believe that 2010 may be the last chance we have to save our Republic from the likes of Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Rangel, Waxman, Hoyer and the rest of the statist crowd.

It's come down to a runoff between Kasim Reed and Mary Norwood. Reed is black. Norwood is white. So ... we have a racially-charged runoff coming up. I'm guessing Reed will be the next Atlanta Mayor. Why? Because votes will be cast on racial lines, and there are more black than white voters in Atlanta. Mary Norwood has made some statements recently indicating how horrible she thinks Republicans are ... so I can't see Republicans making any real effort to vote in the runoff. In my view the big difference between the two is that Reed voted for the recent massive property tax increase and Norwood voted against it.

Let's also make this point. Blacks who vote for the black candidate on the basis of race are conscientious voters. Whites who vote for the white candidate on the basis of race are --- racists.

So the Republicans have come up with a 230-page healthcare alternative. It took the Democrats 1,990 pages. Wonder why it took so much more. Could it be perhaps because the Democrat plan grossly expands the federal government and bureaucracy?

What does the Republican alternative include? Glad you asked. Some of the highlights are:

• Increasing incentives for people to use health savings accounts
• Capping non-economic awards in medical malpractices cases
• Incentives for states to drive down premium costs
• Allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines

What does the Republican plan NOT include?

• No employer mandate
• No individual health insurance mandate
• It doesn't require insurers to cover pre-existing conditions
• Probably some abortion stuff that I could care less about

As the Republicans introduced their bill the Democrats were passing around a binder with a cover page reading "Republican Health Care Plan." Inside you would only find blank pages. Very cute ... the Republicans introduce a 233 page plan, and the Democrat Socialist Party refuses to acknowledge its very existence.

There is, though, something wrong with the GOP bill. They posted it online in a non-searchable format. This is particularly vexing to reporters like Jamie Dupree. If you follow him on Twitter [@jamiedupree] you can share his pain. There is, as I see it, only one reason to post your legislation in this manner ... and that's to make it more difficult for snoopy reporters and voters to get into that bill and look for specific little goodies. We expect this from Democrats. Republicans need to correct this.

The Democrats are up to it again ... using the imperial federal government to tell private companies how to run their businesses. California Rep. George Miller has proposed new federal legislation that would force employers to provide paid time off for any workers that are told to stay home when they are sick. The excuse at hand is the Swine Flu. The real excuse? Labor unions ... and power.

Do you think that there is any way that our founding fathers .. the men who wrote our Constitution ... would have been able to conceive of a government powerful enough to force a private sector employer to pay someone for not working?

As time passes from the passage Obama's crafted-by-radicals $787 billion stimulus, we learn more about what is really going on. A whole 'lotta spending and not a lot of stimulating, that's what.

Michigan, for example, received $5.2 billion in federal stimulus. Now we're told that 22,500 were "created or saved." It doesn't take a math genius to figure out that our taxpayers forked out $231,000 for every job created or saved in Michigan. And when it all comes down to it, our government can't even do an adequate job of figuring out how many jobs it created/saved. Check out how it calculates a "job" created or saved by federal stimulus money. You'll love it.

And while you're in a checking-out mode, here are some of these examples that have surfaced lately. Read on and find out what our imperial federal government and the ACORN Administration consider crucial to turning the tide of this economy:

Let's start with $100,000 for a program in Maryland to keep tabs on how often doctors and nurses wash their hands at hospitals. Now that is really going to stimulate some jobs, isn't it?

We're not through trying to horrify you .... Check out this lengthy list from Tom Coburn's office:

- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

- $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.

- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.

- $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.

- $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway.

- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

- $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.

- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.

- $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.

- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.

- $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.

- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.

- $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.

- $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.

- $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.

- $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.

- $1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.

- $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.

- $356,000 for Indiana University to study childhood comprehension of foreign accents compared with native speech.

- $983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths.

- $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.

- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri

- $3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state.

- $1.3 million on government arts jobs in Maine, including $30,000 for basket makers, $20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival.

- $71,000 for a hybrid car to be used by student drivers in Colchester, Vt., as well as a plug-in hybrid for town workers decked out with a sign touting the vehicle's energy efficiency.

- $1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.

This, my friends, is what happens when government takes money from the private sector to spend on stimulating our economy. It ends up being spent to create votes, not jobs. There can't possibly be one cogent American who thinks that these items were big-time job producers. Any jobs created are, at best, temporary ... and government. Spending our money in this manner should be punishable by law. As it is, it is only punishable by votes .. and let's hope the votes are out there in one year.

Enjoy this short break of randomness in the middle of the Nuze.

Hold on to your hats. I'm about to give The Community Organizer credit for something.

The Obama administration is apparently pushing Democrats in the House to reform the hideous act of 2002 known as Sarbanes-Oxley. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is spearheading the campaign to spare small public companies from complying with the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. Rep. Carolyn Maloney is set to add the exemption to the House financial reform bill for firms with market values of less than $75 million. One Representative, John Adler, wants to increase that figure to firms with a market value below $700 million, until the SEC can figure out how to reduce compliance costs.

How much are we talking about in compliance costs? From Bloomberg: Small companies voluntarily adhering to the audit requirements said they spent $690,219 on average in their most recent fiscal year, according to an SEC survey in October. Businesses with market capitalizations from $75 million to $700 million spent $1 million and the largest U.S. corporations spent $3.99 million, the SEC said.

Atta boy, PrezBO.

Uh oh. Did I use the word "boy?" OMG! I'm a racist!

The skewed priorities of the Obama administration ....

Despite Obama's current approach to foreign policy, he cannot be the community organizer for the world.

Thomas Sowell points out that the Democrat plans for our healthcare system will merely shift the costs, not reduce them.

A judge in the UK has ruled that environmental views are "the same as religious beliefs."

What can the 10th amendment do for you?

This is such a terribly simple concept ... let's only pay for healthcare that works. Here's how government intervention will only exacerbate any deficiencies in our current healthcare system. Not make them better.

Will Democrat healthcare legislation cause the federal deficit to soar? The CATO Institute has your answers.

Cap-and-trade legislation will spur job losses and increase costs for consumers. What is so hard for politicians in Washington to understand? Oh that's right ... because it is all about power.

The Republicans boycott a committee meeting with Barbara Boxer, leaving her all alone.

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag warned Tuesday that large federal deficits will eventually imperil the U.S. economy. Gee, ya think?

Obama should not take even a small step down the road toward bartering away free speech for the sake of international consensus.

After Northwest pilots overshot an airport by 150 miles, lawmakers now want to ban the use of computer laptops and other personal electronic devices in airline cockpits.

The foreign papers want to know if Barack Obama is skinny because he is skipping too many meals to run the country? Don't they know that referring to Barack Obama as skinny is racist?

Hollywood receives help from the government, why no salary caps?

'If The Election Were Held Today Obama Would Lose.'

What exactly has Obama accomplished so far?

Orly Taitz: "Sarah Palin is now my friend on Facebook." Well, good for you!