Posted on 03/14/2010 7:56:55 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gibbs: By next Sunday, healthcare reform will be 'law of the land' By Walter Alarkon - 03/14/10 09:59 AM ET
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the healthcare bill will pass by next weekend.
"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."
President Barack Obama will look to campaign on the new healthcare law in midterm elections, Gibbs said.
"We believe healthcare reform is going to pass, and once it passes we're happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of healthcare reform," Gibbs said.
But Republicans on Fox said there's no guarantee the bill passes and that Democrats will benefit from it.
"If they pass this thing, I think they lose the House of Representatives this fall," said former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove.
If Democrats do pass it, "then the American people will be the losers," said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
"This is a trillion-dollar-bill attempting to overhaul healthcare for every single American," Cantor added.
The bill in its first 10 years will cost nearly $900 billion.
Cantor also criticized Democrats for talking about "bending the rules" by holding a single House vote that allows passage of both the bill passed by the Senate and a package of fixes. That move, under consideration by House Democratic leaders, would keep House members from voting on unpopular parts of the Senate bill, namely special deals that were included to win over recalcitrant senators.
"There should be in the minds of most Americans a direct vote on the Senate bill," Cantor said.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), a member of House Democratic leadership, dismissed suggestions the House will pass the Senate bill without a vote, but he left open the possibility of packaging the fixes with the underlying bill.
"We're going to have an up or down vote," he said.
If the US figures little it could be for an unusual reason — the relatively high proportion of Christians in it now. All those get snatched up. The helm really is turned over to nobody but unbelievers.
That's the one factor that will make a difference. The Rapture of Christians (of which the U.S. does have a bigger percentage than other countries and also compared to Europe). That will be devastating to the U.S. (when they all disappear) and it will "kick start" the Tribulation Time into high gear and that's when it all starts to happen.
I think the Rapture is not really that far away -- and definitely within this particular generation of people who are alive today. I don't believe it will exceed the time frame of "this generation" of people who are alive and reading these posts.
Don’t be so worried
Okay... I'm willing to be wrong on that one... we'll see... :-)
I might witness it.
The US still seems a tough nut for Marxism to crack. How many times has Obama and Co. bluffed about passing Obamacare against the will of 75% of the country? Pride still goes before destruction.
One oddly profound thing will be the melding of Islam into a single world religion. Of all current world faiths, Islam is king of not playing well with others. It is the most difficult to reach with the gospel. It hates Jews and Christians with a passion. It would have to accede to a whole new revelation to be able to get along with the Hindus, the Buddhists, etc.
I am ready! I figure they can take my house (almost upside down in it), I will lose my job (then I won’t have money to pay for everyone else’s health care), go to jail (three hots and a cot) then they will figure out they can’t afford to pay for me to be there.
I loved school house rock.
I am ashamed to say I don’t know enough about the civil war, the Constitution, The Declaration of Independance or local, state and federal laws to know when the hell we could fight back without being justified. I guess that is the million dollar question.
You can go to prison if you are uninsured and refuse to buy insurance.
sweet, never got an article 15 when I was in the army so I always felt like I missed out on something.
The whole purpose of Gibbs being on TV today was to discourage people from continuing to fight. He got to say that sentence to tens of millions. May there be at least an equal and opposite reaction!
For every attempt they make at discouraging me to fight it only makes me more determined to do just that. Hard headed Italian girl.
The thought of living 3 more years under these Chicago thug commies makes me sick... we MUST keep fighting them, though!
Pass or fail, I hope he DOES campaign on it, because he'll have to meet the almost 60% of us who don't want anything to do with it!
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