1. President Barack Obama has nominated former ACLU of Northern California Board member Goodwin Liu to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
 
The 9th Circuit is home to such anti-Christian decisions as finding the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional and supporting the city of Oakland when they tried to fire Christian employees for using the words “family”  “marriage,” “natural family,” or “family values” in email correspondence or on posters in city offices.
 
Liu’s track record indicates he is an extreme judicial activist.
 
In a recent podcast for the American Constitution Society, a far left group, Liu explains his adherence to the “living constitution” idea where judges should adapt the law according to their own views.
 
“What we mean by fidelity is that the Constitution should be interpreted in ways that adapt its principles and its text to the challenges and conditions of our society in every succeeding generation.” 
 
http://dl2.newmediamill.net/media/acs/flash/010509intv/embedliu.html
 
Liu was also one of 17 law professors to file an amicus or friend of the court brief to the California Supreme Court arguing California’s traditional marriage law limiting marriage to one man and one woman was unconstitutional.

 
1. President Obama is demanding Congress use a special parliamentary trick to secure passage of his massive government-run health care scheme.
 
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-democrats-reconciliation-rules-needed/story?id=9995953&page=1
 
Instead of bringing up the entire 2,400 page piece of legislation where Senators could launch a filibuster and Obama would need 60 Senate votes, Obama is insisting on using the “reconciliation” process to sidestep Senate opposition and ram Obamacare into law with a simple majority of 50 (Vice President Biden would break any tie in favor of Obama’s government-run scheme).

 
1. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) has been at the center of the political storm over the past week with his refusal to allow unanimous consent on the first spending bill Congress took up after they loudly announced new pay as you go rules.
 
The bill, H.R. 4691, was introduced and passed the House on February 25th by a voice vote. It would extend unemployment benefits, extend health insurance subsidies (COBRA), extend highway funding, increase Medicare reimbursement rates for physicians (Doc Fix), extend a temporary “flood insurance” program and continue aid for small business programs.

 
1.  Rock and roll legend Chubby Checker announced a new “Twist” to make it easier to qualify for the Extra Help Program with Medicare prescription drug costs.
 
The Extra Help Program currently provides assistance to more than nine million senior and disabled Americans, saving them an average of almost $4,000 a year on their Medicare prescription drug plan costs.

CNN reports that Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI), the author of the Stupak pro-life amendment that passed the House, has called President Obama’s enhanced pro-abortion version of Obamacare “unacceptable.”
 
The Senate version of Obamacare, which provides for federal funding of abortion on demand, has been denounced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. 
 
In a December 22, 2009 letter, the bishops wrote that “the bill should be opposed.”

 
1.  Politico.com reported that Michael Steele, Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), is spending twice as much as his recent predecessors on private planes, limousines, catering, flowers, and expensive hotels.
 
“Michael Steele is an imperial chairman,” one longtime GOP fundraiser told Politico.  “he flies in private aircraft.  He drives in private cars.  He has private consultants that are paid ridiculous retainers.  He fancies himself a presidential candidate and wants all of the trappings and gets them by using other people’s money.”
 
Some of the other RNC extravagances under Steele have included stays at Ritz-Carlton hotels in Chicago, Denver, Marian del Rey, Westchester, and Boston; suites and tickets to Washington Nationals and Washington Redskins games; tour guides and live entertainment in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and expensive parties at trendy locations.

 
1.  The Gallup Poll has found that 41.6% of Americans say they go to church at least once a week or almost every week. 

The February 25 “summit meeting” between the President and 12 Democratic and 9 Republican members of Congress, which will be nationally televised, is intended by the White House to be a public relations ploy to salvage Obamacare.
 
The President himself will be moderating the meeting, which will be held at the Blair House, a White House annex, giving the Democrats a clear advantage.  Because of Obama’s communications skills, the liberals think they can change the public’s overwhelmingly negative opinion of Obamacare.

1.  Carl Cameron of FOXNews.com reported that the nation’s most influential conservative leaders have signed the Mount Vernon Statement re-committing themselves to the principles of constitutional conservatism.
 
In the works since last summer, the Mount Vernon Statement was signed on the eve of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  The ceremony took place in the library of George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate.
 
One of the 18 conservative leaders who signed the document, Richard Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com, said in a statement:
 
“I feel it’s a good first step, and I applaud those conservatives who have provided the leadership to produce this statement of conservative principles…Hopefully, the Mount Vernon Statement will draw a line to clearly separate the principled conservatives from the majority of Washington politicians (Republican and Democratic) who want to continue to expand the reach, power, control, and influence of government at all levels.”

1.  A column in the San Francisco Chronicle has “outed” the federal judge presiding in the suit filed by homosexuals who are trying to overturn the 2008 vote of the people of California for a state constitutional amendment to protect marriage.
 
“The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay,” wrote Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross.
 
Wikipedia states that Walker was originally nominated to the bench by President Reagan, but his confirmation was delayed.  He was re-appointed by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 1989.