White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs appeared on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown this morning and said he expects Congress to act on Obamacare before the president leaves for Australia and Indonesia on March 18. Gibbs also hit on all the Democratic end-game talking points: We incorporated a bunch of Republican ideas and they still won’t budge; we already passed health-care with 60 votes in the Senate, but even if we didn’t, reconciliation means nothing more than majority rule; and, most bizarrely, health-care reform means jobs. (Stay tuned for more on the first two points. I don’t even know where to start on the third.)

There is also a great bit of circular logic thrown in when Savannah Stern asks Gibbs whether there are enough votes in the House to pass Obamacare today. Gibbs responds that if the vote were scheduled for today, it would be because they had enough votes. Gotcha.