Axelrod, Gibbs Threaten that Obamacare Will Pass by This Week Despite Lack of Votes from Main Dem Vote Counter

Obama strategist David Axelrod and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs threaten that the Obamacare bill will be passed by this upcoming week. However, that would be despite the lack of votes that stand in the way of such a passage, according to top Democrat vote counter, James Clyburn of South Carolina. So just how in the world are the defiant Democrats going to overcome the reality that they have insufficient votes for passage? Are they just delusional, or do they have some chicanery up their sleeves? It may well be chicanery as according to Axelrod, the White House is retreating from earlier demands that some special, sweetheart deals by certain lawmakers be removed from the bill in order to aid with passage. In short, the White House-in order to pass a bill that the majority of Americans already detests-is even permitting special deals for senators Max Baucus and Chris Dodd to remain in the bill, just for them! Beautiful...just beautiful.

Appearing on ABC's This Week and Fox News Sunday, respectively, Axelrod and Gibbs seemed to enjoy living in their own, little, private world called "Obamaworld," which is unique in that it apparently is divorced from reality so much so as not to make sense anymore. They must really be deluded-or is it just massive arrogance that you or I can't even fathom yet?-because a very recent tally by The Hill established that Democrats as it stands now just don't have the votes necessary to overcome all the no votes from defecting Democrats and the GOP. In fact, even by the rosiest of scenarios that assume many factors breaking for Pelosi, she still wouldn't have the votes necessary. An example? In order to pass Obamacare in the House by just one, pathetic vote (216-215 in favor), Pelosi would somehow have to work a miracle and convince all 34 Democrats who are currently solid no votes along with a few of the more than a dozen who are undecided to in fact support it!

Furthermore, the main vote counter for the Democrats, James Clyburn of South Carolina, has publicly admitted that he doesn't have the votes. Said Clyburn, "No, we don't have them as of this morning, but we've been working this thing all weekend." In an ominous note, though, Clyburn nonetheless proclaimed confidence in the bill passing, which makes you wonder what kind of tactics the Democrats are up to.

Can it be done, you ask? Can the Democrats snatch victory (which would in fact be a resounding defeat for all Americans) from the jaws of defeat? Well, only if they're unethical, underhanded and start to use that old fall-back trick of theirs: the bribe. So in short...maybe Pelosi can still, unfortunately, pull this off...but only with a lot of dirty arm-twisting.

In example, Mr. No-taxpayer-money-for-abortions himself, Bart Stupak of Michigan, has gone on the record publicly and disclosed that he and other Democrats who are currently non-committal on Obamacare are getting pressured by all the traditional, Democrat special interest groups! Those include the ever-pestilent unions as just one example. In addition, other pressure tactics-or maybe the more sinister "intimidation tactics" is the appropriate term here-against Stupak include threats by his fellow Democrats to bring him before the ethics committee on phony charges just as retaliation on his stand against abortion being funded by taxpayer dollars! How vicious and cutthroat by these Democrats!

Clearly, if the Democrats are willing to and have been turning on their own to fulfill the wishes of their "Great Leader," Obama, they have clearly decided that to be fanatically ideological and partisan is worth it to have Obamacare passed, even if that means certain doom in the house-cleaning midterms this fall. The Democrats as a party are no longer representative of any normal demographics in America: They only cater to the hardcore left made up of Moveon.org and the Daily Kos, who run the party now. Those are the liberal constituents Obama and Pelosi cater to; that explains the suicidal, fanatical and obstinate drive to health care "reform" although a clear majority of Americans is opposed to it, and prediction after prediction has it that the Democrats will lose congressional control to the GOP as punishment for their ideology.

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Sources:

Walter Alarkon, Gibbs: By next Sunday, healthcare reform will be "the law of the land," The Hill

Bob Cusack, Scrambling for votes, Democrats face uphill climb to pass healthcare reform, The Hill

Dems short on health votes for now, Fox News

Shera Crossan, Stupak: Dems say Abortions save money: Stupak threatened by ethics inquiry, Newsnet 14

Health Care Reform, Rasmussen