White House Plans To Use DeMint's "Waterloo" Quote To Rally The Troops

ABC News:

On Friday, on a "Conservatives for Patients Rights" conference call with conservative activists dealing with health care reform, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said, as Ben Smith at Politico reported, "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

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Comments

[boomslang]

08:47 AM on 07/21/2009

The orcs are on the march

[rich misty]

11:56 PM on 07/20/2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo

I thought so... But the Republicans and their Imperial Guards, lost at Waterloo.

[Totto]

11:17 PM on 07/20/2009

DeLay. DeMint. DeDumb.

[CrittersRTasty]

08:06 PM on 07/21/2009

Debill Derailed.

[RustyPatina]

11:06 PM on 07/20/2009

Consider me rallied!

[StPeteDave]

09:56 PM on 07/20/2009

what a stupid way to lose a job....those words will cost him his seat eventually.

[CrittersRTasty]

11:41 PM on 07/20/2009

Unless, of course, he's right.

[PaiaGirl]

09:47 PM on 07/20/2009

What we need is government run healthcare that employs the doctors and nurses and indemnifies them against malpractice.

And then, instead of the lame system we have now, have a seriously harsh system of yanking licenses of those who clearly commit malpractice.

But without the economic incentive, malpractice is much less likely.

My cousin who is a brain surgeon pays ONE MILLION DOLLARS per year for malpractice. And he is the smartest, most careful, most professional and good person you could imagine.

[boomslang]

08:58 AM on 07/21/2009

The reason neurosurgeons pay so much "malpractise' is because of the inherant serious complications attached to their practise.Same applies to obstetrics. Physicians bankroll the cost of "maloccurrence " to a much greater degree than "malpractise" What an insane system !

[AnalyzeIT]

08:57 PM on 07/20/2009

Durning Bush-Cheney administration the RePubs were in a big hurry to wage war on men, women, and children in Iraq and Afganistan, to cut taxes for America's wealthiest 1%, to outsource millions of American jobs to China and India, to drill for oil in our national parks, to privatize social security, and to give trillions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street millionaires and billionaires.

But they're no hurry to help Americans who are sick or dying because they don't have health care coverage.

[dmbraddy]

08:40 PM on 07/20/2009

Thank you, Senator Jim DeMint. You have made it crystal clear to the few that didn't already know, that for Republicans every issue is something to be played for political advantage. It's all about winning and losing political power. What's good for the public? Who cares? Once again the GOP is doubling-down by opposing healthcare reform. Once again they will do a face-plant and reap the agony of defeat. They really are gluttons for punishment. :-)

[PaiaGirl]

09:21 PM on 07/20/2009

Sen. Jim DeMint is a member of the C street Family - the pseudo-Christian cult which believes that Christianity got off course when it put the emphasis on caring for the less fortunate.

They believe that ipso facto if you are rich and powerful, that Jesus made you that way and that therefore nothing you do is wrong.

So opposing affordable health care for all of us fits right in with their world view.

Read Jeff Sharlet's book, "The Family"

[StPeteDave]

09:59 PM on 07/20/2009

As a christian, that is really frightening. Not all christians are crazy.

[Totto]

11:39 PM on 07/20/2009

Sample: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106115324

[Tuckerndfw]

06:50 PM on 07/20/2009

The insurance companies are doing an outstanding job of herding the sheep into a pen.

HR 3200 is NOT "universal health care" nor is it "health care reform."

It requires everyone to buy for profit insurance. Taxpayers will buy it for those who cannot afford it.

HR 3200 is the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in world history.

Repubs are playing their part by pretending to oppose this bill. They do not, they are helping herd the sheep into the pen. As in, "Oh, wow, Repubs are against it so it must be great."

It is not "great" it is a gift to insurance companies and nothing else.

[DimBulb2]

08:33 PM on 07/20/2009

precisely!

[PaiaGirl]

09:26 PM on 07/20/2009

Did I read it wrong? I thought that it gave us the opportunity to pay to have the Medicare program extended to us (with some changes)?

At least as long as the public option isn't killed by the Rethugs.

[vgirl1]

06:20 PM on 07/20/2009

President Obama should continue to remind the American public at every opportunity that contrary to what Rep Demented said "It (healthcare) is not about him (Obama)".

Obama should also repeat over and over again to the Blue Dog Democrats (who are afraid to vote for the bill), that neither is healtcare about them.

These Blue Dogs need to get some guts and vote for the healthcare reform the American people want.

[Tuckerndfw]

06:46 PM on 07/20/2009

Those who support HR 3200 should actually read the bill.

It is NOT "health care reform" or "universal health care."

It is a gift to insurance companies they have been attempting to get for decades. It requires people to buy insurance and that is all it requires. Which is all insurance companies want.

[Progress08]

05:25 PM on 07/20/2009

Good! Up Yours DeMint. We're on the side of angels, the side of looking out for our brother while you're on the side of corporate greed and hatred.

[HC4BO]

05:18 PM on 07/20/2009

So their ONLY BASIS to STOP Health care Reform is because President Obama is the one going to sign it ... !?!

What a sad country this has become ... Why do we even VOTE ?

[ReedYoung]

05:36 PM on 07/20/2009

If we didn't, it would be even worse. Unimaginable, perhaps, but I'm sure of it.

[judesuper]

04:13 PM on 07/20/2009

You know the President has a great idea when the repubs scream, whine, cry and stomp their feet. With all this going on, I guess President Obama has a good thing going.

Now you dem senators that are starting with the repub ways, you need to get on board, or you will never be re-elected. The progressive machine that worked so well to get President Obama elected can work the other way around and get you voted OUT. Never forget that.

[judesuper]

03:58 PM on 07/20/2009

Who exactly is this going to break senator demented? Not the President. It's going to break us, your fellow Americans.

Why do repubs hate us? Why do repubs want us to fail? Why do repubs always wish us harm?

[2celestial]

03:28 PM on 07/20/2009

I just had an idea for financing health care reform! Let's get all of those Republicans who so hate big government and it's evil programs to put their money where their mouths are. I suggest that each and every one of them in Congress start purchasing his own and his family's health care policy out of his or her salary instead of at taxpayer's expense. Next, all passionate Republican retirees can contact Social Security and just say "Thanks, but No Thanks!" to that monthly check you've been sending me. All those who hate big government should also just not sign up to ever receive Medicare or Social Security since it's such a horrible invasion of their private economic rights. I think this could go a long way to some big cost savings for the rest of us who believe that government should serve it's people first.