Title: Obama spokesmaggot: ObamaCare will be law of the land by next Sunday Source:
The Daily Caller URL Source:http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/14/g ... eform-will-be-law-of-the-land/ Published:Mar 14, 2010 Author:The Daily Caller Post Date:2010-03-14 13:15:59 by Happy Quanzaa Keywords:Communist, Marxist, Nationialized Medicine, Death Panels Views:179
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Sunday announced that the health care reform bill would be passed by Congress and signed by the President by this time next week.
“We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said in a one-on-one interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.”Whoever sits here at this time next week, I think will not be talking about health care as a proposal, but as the law of the land,” he said.
Asked about the recent ruling by the Senate parliamentarian that the House Democrats cannot use a tactic they were first reported to be exploring last week by The Daily Caller — to hold the Senate health care bill in their chamber after passing it to force the Senate to work with them on reconciliation — Gibbs simply said that he would leave the “technical” issues to the parliamentarian.
The press secretary also predicted the bill’s passage would help Democrats in the midterm elections.
“Once it passes, we’re happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of health care reform.”
House Minority Leader John Boehner, appearing on CNN’s State of the Union, said the White House’s rhetoric is unrealistic.
If Democrats had the votes necessary to pass health care, “this bill would be long gone,” Boehner said. “Guess what? They don’t have the votes.”
When pressed by Wallace as to what it would mean for the Obama presidency if the bill failed to pass, Gibbs said that the president’s job “doesn’t mean doing what is politically popular…the president doesn’t pay a lot of attention to the pollsters.”
Speaking on ABC’s This Week, White House adviser David Axelrod was more conservative in his prediction about the contentious week ahead.
“I believe it is going to happen this week,” Axelrod said. “I think we’re going to have a vote.”
The comments come after the president decided to delay a major trip to Asia to focus on passing health care reform this week.
