Category Archives: Health
Strange Bedfellows
Pelosi is considering a plan put forward by Louise Slaughter, chairwoman of the House Rules Committee . It would allow the Senate Health Care Bill to be “deemed” to have passed. Then the House would make amendments to it and pass the new bill. They would be able to pass 2 bills with one vote. Kind of like using the same dollar twice for medicare and the health care. Here’s a Washington Post story explaining the gambit.
Buff Bluff
Eric Massa resigned today. The married congressman from NY is accused of sexually harassing a male staffer. Massa claims to be the victim of a dem conspiracy to run him out of town because he won’t vote for health care. But the congressman has no clothes. He says Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel yelled at him while they were both naked as jaybirds in the shower at the house gym. Emanuel’s fully clothed yelling recently upset liberals and the mental health community.
