At least this time I do. How come I can never be this prescient when it comes to picking winning lottery numbers?

Recall that in a previous post I declared the following:

The bill will pass the Senate and the White House will crow about this historic accomplishment, its brayings amplified by the megaphones in the Drive-By media. The Senate bill will then be reconciled with the House bill not through the standard legislative process but through the budget reconciliation process - one that only requires a bare majority in the Senate to make its way to Obama’s desk where he will sign it in a nationally televised ceremony.

Almost immediately, the administration will unleash the hounds of propaganda, assuring the nation that health care for all has finally become a reality thanks to Barack Obama and the Democrats. Those who oppose it will be derided as racists, bigots, birthers and neo-nazis. When election time rolls around in November, the Drive-Bys will run wall-to-wall ads from the DNC in which an ominous voice over, backed by ominous music, will warn Mrs. and Mrs. America that the evil, hard-hearted Republicans will try to take away their health care coverage and leave them to die in the streets. The campaign will be so intense and the lies repeated so often that many Americans will believe it.

Apparently, the Donks have jumped onto the train faster than I thought they would.

With Democratic senators united on the health care bill today, their campaign arm has settled on an attack plan for 2010: Republicans would “repeal” it if they win control.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, aggressively challenging incumbent GOP senators and vying for open seats, will paint the Republicans as only interested in obstructing.

The DSCC blasted releases to local press out saying Republican Senators are standing “in the way” of giving health care to their constituents. Each one is customized, so for example, they say Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) “Stands In The Way Of Providing Health Care To 1.7 Million North Carolinians.”

The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack sees a silver lining in this dark electoral cloud.

So, the Democrats’ attack plan is to tell voters that the GOP will repeal the budget-busting, tax-hiking, Medicare-cutting, abortion-funding, big insurance and big pharma giveaway that only has the support of 35% of voters. Brilliant!

Conservatives have been saying that if Obamacare passes Republicans should run on the platform of repealing this monstrosity. The Democrats really think it’s a smart attack plan to send the same message?

Does this count as an in-kind contribution to Republican candidates?

Not so fast, Johnny. The alternate media is an effective instrument for informing people, but it only reaches a little more than a third of the voting population. The Drive-Bys still control what’s left of the newspapers and magazines and still run the news desks of the networks as well as CNN, C-NBC, MSNBC, PBS and NPR.

They control the narrative that most average Americans will see and hear between now and next November. In a nutshell, that narrative will assure them Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress have given them a free lunch - an all-you-can-eat healthcare buffet that will make them healthier and happier. At the same time, conservatives and Republicans who rightly oppose this statist Golem will be vilified as evil bastards who want to see the sick and suffering perish so that insurance companies and Big Pharma can profit.

The diminutive Sen. Bob Menendez  - New Jersey’s less obnoxious answer to Minnesota’s Seantorial buffoon, Al “Stuart Smalley” Franken, made this ominous analysis regarding those wascawy Wepubwicans:

“… Just like voters watched Republicans preside in Washington and do absolutely nothing to address the skyrocketing costs of health care, they have also watched Republicans obstruct common sense solutions at every turn. Once these reforms become law, Republicans who opposed it will have to look voters in the eye and pledge to repeal historic reforms which will have afforded coverage to hundreds of thousands constituents, brought down costs for families and small businesses, ended appalling insurance practices, and lowered the deficit. There is a reason that Republicans used everything they had to try to kill this bill: they know what a tough position they will be in next November.”

Nevermind that it’s a complete fabrication and the conclusion makes absolutely no political sense whatsoever. None of that is important. What is important is the fact the Drive-Bys will spin this meme like cotton candy and force feed it to the lumpen proletariat.

And the Republican strategy for responding? Heh…the usual feckless pusillanimity:

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) this week dodged questions from ABC News about whether he’d repeal the measure if the GOP were to take over.

ABC reports:

“You used a word earlier that it’s going to be an ‘historic’ vote, and I think it’s going to be a historic mistake for the country if this is what happens to health care,” said Barrasso. “Now, as you know, the changes don’t actually go into place until four years from now so people aren’t going to be able to see immediately what the problems are. But they are going to notice the cuts in Medicare and, specifically, the increased taxes which go into effect the day that this bill is signed into law.”

Expect to see a lot of hand-wringing and dithering from Republicans over the cuts in Medicare. Oh, there will be some chatter about tax increases to be sure, but a full-throated roar of defiance in the defense of liberty? Don’t hold your breath.