Washington Weekly Review

Will the Abortion Issue Kill Obamacare?

Pro-life Democrat leader Bart Stupak, the courageous Congressman from Michigan, has been fighting a gallant many-month battle to have health care reform legislation absolutely guarantee that Americans' tax dollars will not be used for the abominable practice of abortion. So far, it has been a losing battle. The vote on Obamacare is expected in the House of Representatives in early November.

Countless non-partisan authorities have confirmed that the five bills being considered in Congress -- 3 in the House of Representatives and 2 in the U.S. Senate, where only on Republican, Olympia Snowe from Maine, voted for only the Obamacare bill coming out of the Senate Finance Committee -- will allow taxpayer funding for abortions. Each of these bills are not subject to the Hyde amendment -- authored by the late Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Henry Hyde -- which ensured that no abortions, except to save the life of the mother and rape/incest abortions (less than 2% of all abortions) would be funded with tax dollars.

There are some 40 Democrats who are from generally conservative districts who cast a pro-life vote from time to time -- some all the time such as Congressman Stupak -- and they, with a unanimous vote against Obamacare could stop abortion from being funded. There are additional Democrats from conservative/moderate districts who are pro-abortion and whose reelection chances are threatened next year if they vote for a government-option health care bill.. (Read More)

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Republicans Gain First Victory Against Obamacare

The Republicans had an astounding victory in the first skirmish in the Obamacare battle on Wednesday. The Democrats had deviously tried to buy the votes of America's doctors by giving them a vote on a bill specifically bribing physicians to a tune of 1/4 of a TRILLION dollars. The Democrats were hoping to buy the support of doctors for Obamacare -- with its onerous government option which the left-wing fringe of the Democrat Party desparately want -- by giving doctors a $250 billion adjustment on Medicare reimbursement rates (spread over 10 years.)

The Democrats' duplicitous plan, called the "Medicare Physicians Fairness Act" or commonly called "the Doc Fix" bill, was turned back with the votes of every single Republican Senator yesterday and with the help of 12 Democrats and one Independent; 47-53. Even liberal Senator Olympia Snowe from Maine -- the only Republican who voted for the least left-wing bill which was passed by the Senate Finance Committee by a 13-10 margin -- voted no on the Democrats' Doc Fix bill.

The left-wing "New York Times" was forced to admit that the loss was a huge blow to the Democrat Party and to the president's hopes to pass his Obamacare socialized medicine bill. The NYT said: "Democrats lost a big test on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors at a cost of $247 billion over 10 years"... (Read More)

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Pro-life Student Silenced in Canadian School

Our neighbors to the north have given us another excellent foreshadowing of what the near future of political correctness run amuck holds for us.

It seems that a pro-life student, wishing to engage in a SILENT protest against abortion was put in isolation and segregated from the rest of the student body. The student, Jennifer Rankin, was joining in the pro-life "Silent Day of Solidarity" campaign, which involved wearing red tape over her mouth and a red armband. The point of the protest was to be able to respond with a pro-life answer when people would ask why she is protesting.

From Life News:

...a school principal alerted police and met Rankin and her mother at the entrance where she told them that the protest is not welcome at the school. Ultimately, school officials allowed Rankin into the building but kept her in isolation away from other students... (Read More)

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Obama's Stalinist Whiners Against Fox News Channel

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on CNN's Sunday morning show said that the Fox News Channel is not a news organization. It's a perspective he said. And Emanuel said that, more importantly, CNN and the other television networks should not treat Fox News as an equal or words to that effect.

In another example of this administration's abuse of power, Obama's senior political advisor, David Axelrod, said much the same thing on ABC News on which he told the anchor -- a former political hack and attack dog in the Clinton Administration -- George Stephanopoulus, that (paraphrasing now) ABC and the other networks should not treat Fox News as a news organization.

The White House does not allow any of their cabinet officers or senior White House personnel to go on Fox News anymore (there was one exception when Axelrod showed up after smoking a tentative peace pipe with the President of Fox News, Roger Ailes.) Fox News is a network which has over half of its audience liberals or independents; which scares the Obama administration. It has more viewers than all the other cable news show combined and then some... (Read More)

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