"...but don't worry..we will deal with your rrrebel friends soon enough."
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.
More cowardly baiting from attention seekers just dying to get a reaction out of you. He’s probably here reading the comments and getting a good laugh. Mostly we could just laugh at jerks like Bob Gibbels if what they were attempting to do weren’t so serious.
The legislature cannot do “whatever it wants”, they must follow the constitution, the constitution requires a vote on all legislation, they can’t just declare something as passed.
From what I've been reading if they try doing this through the Slaughter way it could reach the USSC in months. Hope that's true.
Thanks. One of these day’s I’ll get around to learning to provide a link. Till then, enjoy “”Bob’’, He’s a hoot!
If 0 hasn’t stacked the courts by then.
Went to Washington DC this weekend. While there, I happened upon a mudhole near the White House that had Gibbs’ name on it.......
Is there any reason to take Gibbs seriously? He’s such a bozo.
“Gibbs: By next Sunday, healthcare reform will be ‘law of the land’”
Me: By next Sunday, I will redouble my efforts protecting my family, advocating for the vulnerable elderly, and standing up for the weak whom this takeover seeks to discard.
Yes, they can & they will because they have no respect for the rule of law or the Constitution .... they just don’t care whether they do what is right or not. This is why Obama and his thugs are so dangerous.
If this passes the taxes start right away, the so called “benefits” don’t start for 4 years. Pay now, get government healthcare later.
They are killing us like the frog in hot water, a little at a time so we don’t rise up. By the time we do it will be too little too late. The younger folks seem to be already brainwashed and us old folks will be too old or dead to rise up and fight.
I wish we would just commit and fight back now.
(A frog will leap from a pan of hot water, but if the water is brought to a slow boil, the frog will remain until its demise.)
I’m not saying they aren’t going to get it, but from watching the cable news the last few days, they are getting very cocky. In your face cockey. It may bite them in the butt.
B*stards!
All that schoolhouse rock stuff has been forgotten by the leaders in Congress.
Passage of the National HealthCare Reform Act, in our future written History, will be the viewed as the opening shot of the Second American Civil War.
Note the Gibbs formulation along with Pelosi’s enthusiasm: the Senate bill will be the law of the land.
Almost no pretense that they’ll fix the Senate bill via reconciliation.
If this doesn’t shake the House RATS, then they deserve the crap sandwich they will get.
Very good strategies.
I’m sure that FReepers can think of a few more.
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