After Tuesday’s elections gave us Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell, a conservative Republican, and New Jersey Gov.-elect Chris Christie, a moderate Republican, by 18 percent and 5 percent margins respectfully, it should be clear to Congress as a whole that the far-left course it has set for the nation’s agenda is not what the American people voted for last year.

Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman lost by just three percentage points in New York's 23rd Congressional District largely because of shortsighted Republican Party efforts against him. Consider a third-party popular vote of 46 percent a huge win for the liberty-loving TEA Party movement, particularly when the progressive Republican drop-out Dede Scozzafava received an annoying 6 percent. Expect a conservative sweep in 2010 if both parties don’t get that message now. The movement is growing! (PDF)

While President Obama gave hints of his current agenda with comments to “Joe the Plumber” that he planned to “spread the wealth around,” most Americans only heard the relatively conservative rhetoric the president used on his campaign. His “hope and change” slogan was misinterpreted as a desire to bring fiscal responsibility back to a more accountable government.

In the last 10 months, we have seen the opposite: the largest deficit of a president in modern history -- now at $1.42 Trillion (PDF) -- with no tangible results and half-truths and obfuscations to cover up the failures. We have a ballooning debt that is sure to make our nation’s bank account insolvent if we don’t audit the Federal Reserve (JPG) and pay attention to the root causes of our money problem now.

Presently, the same president and Congress that has squandered our money and financially ruined our children are bent on forcing health coverage and Cap & Trade bills down our throats, even though it is proven that both bills will make our financial problems worse at a time when our economy cannot handle it. Read the Wall Street Journal's article, "The Worst Bill Ever" (PDF), for that proof.

The health bill alone is estimated to cost at least $1.055 trillion in 10 years -- even more after that. And in taxing us to pay for a sub-par version of what we already have when we can afford it least, this government wants to force insurance companies to provide certain coverage at centrally set prices, which will necessarily increase costs in general.

The Cap & Trade bill, far from doing anything productive for the environment, will simply raise the cost of energy for all of us and make needed permits to drill and mine the resources we need harder to get. Meanwhile, the bill will make many of its supporters and their special interest donors rich by creating a new farce of a market that literally trades thin air. Does anyone remember Enron? Yup, this was their idea (PDF). Go figure.

When Americans voted for Democrats in 2008, they did so hoping they would address the rising costs of health care and energy, not add to them. They certainly didn't ask for bills that would give government authority to deny coverage to people who aren't productive members of society or to walk into their homes and force them to pay for the invasive visit and also expensive "energy efficient" upgrades.

The Republicans have an alternative health care plan (PDF) that would, among other things, allow health insurance firms to compete across state lines and cap medical malpractice cases at $250,000. Each idea could help drive down costs in our free market system, and keep the anti-Midas government from ruining another component of our private lives.

Republicans are also behind efforts to create clean and efficient nuclear energy, drill for more domestic oil so we can stop funding terrorist harboring nations, and use new clean coal technologies so we can power our economy for generations to come while the market comes up with other affordable and efficient alternatives, without expensive government subsidies.

Americans are intelligent people, and I think we’ve made it clear at TEA Party protests and Town Hall meetings this year that we do not want what Democrats are offering. Lawmakers in Washington better come to this realization soon, or they will soon join the rest of us who are looking for a job.