White House focuses on history-making aspect of health care

1. The White House trotted out one of its most disciplined messengers -- senior adviser David Axelrod -- to make the case on the Sunday chat shows for the historic nature of President Obama's accomplishment on health care. Axelrod described the moment as a "historical crossroads" in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press", adding: "Seven presidents have tried to pass comprehensive health insurance reform, seven presidents have failed. We've been talking about it for 100 years. We're on the doorstep of getting it done, and it'll be a great victory for the American people." On "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", Axelrod used the same language to defend against the assertion that fight for the bill was far more difficult than the administration initially expected. Ditto Axelrod on CNN's "State of the Union." The appeal to history is an attempt to reinforce one of the fundamental pillars of Barack Obama's