Congresswoman Louise Slaughter is in the news today because she's pushing the controversial 'Slaughter' measure to sneak healthcare through in the dark of night...
Nearly one-third of all practicing physicians may leave the medical profession if President Obama signs current versions of health-care reform legislation into law, according to a survey published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
An obscure parliamentary maneuver favored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suddenly ignited Tuesday as the latest tinder in the year-long partisan strife over reshaping the nation's health-care system, triggering debate over the strategy's legitimacy and political wisdom.
Only 17 percent of American voters approve of how lawmakers on Capitol Hill are doing their jobs and, given the choice, half of all respondents in an NBC poll would vote to defeat their own representative and every single member of Congress.
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Nancy Pelosi apparently doesn't have the votes, but it may not matter. Using a maneuver called 'self executing rule' the bill will just be 'deemed' passed by lawmakers. Democrats, are using the appropriately named 'Slaughter' rule -- it's the name of the Democrat who's proposing the idea (Congressman Louise Slaughter) and it just happens to be slaughtering the Constitution. The defense? Republicans have done it too! True - but never on anything near as important as the biggest social bill in the past 50 years.
Tom Hanks shocked many Americans when he said recently that, basically, World War II happened because America was racist and the Japanese were different looking. Hanks may have forgotten about a little event called Pearl Harbor. Yes, Tom - those were Japanese planes.
