Even in humiliating defeat, the Republicans on the Hill are finding new and exciting ways to use disinformation to rally their own troops for their own political gain.

Check out this tweet offered up in the wake of last night's vote in the House from South Carolina Republican Bob Inglis:

What do you do when Congress passes a bad bill? You get a new Congress to repeal it!

Either Congressman Inglis is either a bit fuzzy on that whole "How a Bill Becomes a Law" thing, or he is extraordinarily optimistic about Republican prospects in this year's election cycle.

Because, of course, not even a Republican seizure of Congress would allow for a successful repeal of Health Care reform. There is the small matter of the presidential veto. With the veto pen in hand, any GOP effort to repeal isn't going to require 218 votes in the House and 51 in the Senate, it's going to require 290 and 67.

That would require, even if the GOP were able to hold all 34 Democratic dissidents (unlikely), a seventy-eight seat gain in the House for the GOP.

The wall to climb in the Senate is, shall we say, a little more burdensome. A twenty-six seat gain, which would be particularly problematic, given that there aren't 26 Democrats running for re-election in this cycle.

Now, it's possible that Congressman Inglis merely forgot that a Democrat was President. But that seems pretty unlikely. It seems infinitely more likely that the "repeal the bill" meme (which, to be fair to Inglis, is being flogged by other Republicans, as well) is a cynical attempt to keep their faithful engaged, on the false hope that the powerless GOP can do something about it.