Arrogantly spinning inevitability

Gibbs brags:

“We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Gibbs added that those on next week’s Sunday talk shows “will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but I think as the law of the land.”

Rep. James Clyburn, though conceding the votes aren't there yet, is "very confident that we’ll get this done."

Anita Dunn says, "Let's have an up or down vote!" No, no, not a real vote on a real bill. That wouldn't yield the desired results.

Axelrod cynically dares the next Congress to repeal, should it pass:

"I say, Let's have that fight. Make my day," Axelrod said on "Meet the Press." "I'm ready to have that, and every member of Congress ought to be willing to have that debate was well."

He believes Americans will become so quickly and hopelessly hooked on the turkish delight of new health entitlements that repeal will be politically impossible:

If this bill passes, this year, children with pre-existing conditions will now be covered. There will be an end to lifetime caps and annual caps on what the insurance companies will cover, so if you get sick you won't go broke, if you get sick they won't throw you off your insurance. The doughnut hole will be filled in, so senior citizens will save hundreds of dollars on their prescription drugs. The life of Medicare will be extended, and on and on and on."

And on, with the majority of American's in permanent thrall to the government. But Axelrod is not being perfectly honest here. The bill isn't potent enough, initially, to effect the instant serfdom of which statists dream. A bit of fact-checking from Byron York:

There are holes galore in Axelrod's statement. The Senate health care bill, for example, does not eliminate the insurance coverage caps as Axelrod claims. Bans on discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions have been scaled back. And experts agree that taking money out of Medicare, as the bill does, would not extend the life of Medicare if that money is used to pay for the new health care entitlement instead of shoring up Medicare.

Pushing an inevitable Obamacare victory is part of the head game to discourage the opposition. Don't fall for it. It's time to show up if you can and melt the phones if you can't.


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