Posted on 07/23/2009 10:19:33 AM PDT by Def Conservative
Senate GOP leaders worry that some of their colleagues are misplaying their hand on health care reform by suggesting that they want to kill the plan in order to hurt the president. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said last week that, if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, “it will be his Waterloo, it will break him.”
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Demint was right...even Obama knows it, since he wa stelling Dems "you'll destroy my presidency" if you halt the health care bill.
“Senate GOP leaders” Names???!!!
Attacking Bush seemed to work for the Democrats...of course Bush rarely fought back. Obama will scream about every attack.
Use of the word Waterloo only gets Obongo all revved up to prove Demint wrong. But who cares. It’s out there and let the Bamster charge full speed ahead into defeat
“Senate GOP leaders worry ....”
Yep. That is ALL they do. Stinking cowards.
Right , head fake. God forbid we insult a man that calls doctors crooks and police stupid.
Oh, that’s right! Don’t you all remember, when lefties all over DC were excoriating W every day of his 2 terms, wishin’ and a-hopin’ for his failure, declaring it, while the MSM harrumphed dutifully and nodded knowingly — don’t you remember how it was Democrat Senate leaders who told them to cut it out? Remember? /sarc
Right , head fake. God forbid we insult a man that calls doctors crooks and police stupid.
What’s the difference? LOL!
Lil’ Lindsey Graham, no doubt.
The term Waterloo is great. We still have other battles to fight against this guy and a big victory on this may also impact the other battles.
Warn your local congresscritter that you not only vote against them,,but contribute against them.
Pelosi is offering them big bucks to sign on..your bucks.
We want to kill the plan because it’s a crap plan. Destroying the Obama presidency is merely happy collateral damage.
Sarah Palin from Twitter:
Detroit Down” & “Rollin”: “Aint gonna shut my mouth/I know there’s got to be a few hundred million more like me/just trying to keep it free”
:)
I’ve heard doctors and police called worse, right here on FR!!
oh wow... we better not sound anti-Obama... no way... after all the Democrats were so meek and mild for the last 8 years
Yeah right... I like the words "leaders" and "worry"... I don't think so...
You know McLame and Miss Lindsey have got to be at the top of the list. I can just hear the whining of those two useless “leaders” now - “Don’t say ‘Waterloo’ - leave Barack alone, you meanies!!”
Commie propaganda.
FU GOP. Step on the worthless Marxist SOB’s throat, you worthless capons, and earn your paycheck by upholding the CONSTITUTION for a change.
I guess these are the GOP "Leaders".
Typical.
Distraction is correct:
“It makes people in the country realize that these guys are the party of no,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who sits on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
“A major part of the Republican Party just doesn’t want Barack Obama to succeed.”
And some of the commies are in the GOP
We also have Republicans telling us not to call Obama’s policies Socialist.
I didn’t get a harrumph outta that guy.
Give the Governor a harrumph. :)
I don’t know about GOP leaders. I don’t want to kill the bill because it will “hurt the president”. I want to kill the bill because it is bad for the country. If the clown who claims to be the president (no proof of natural born status) is hurt in the process, so much the better.
GUTLESS, SPINELESS WIMPS.....
And not only that, his comments fit nicely with the truth behind it as pointed out by Senator Grassley:
"Let's just lay everything on the table," Grassley said. "A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn't going to pass if there weren't some changes made ... and the president says, 'You're going to destroy my presidency.' "
If this is the truth, these “leaders” should leave the party and join there pals in the Democrat Party. The door is open!
Meanwhile, the person/people in the WH terrorizes the people every damn day. Apparently with impunity. Even a Secret Service agent was so offended by 0bama family comments that he asked 0bama to be reassigned.
DeMint understand that this is a war. It is a war to keep the marxist Obama from destroying the very fabric of the American economy and law-biding society.
Looks like Demint is doing all the real leading.
Oy vey. Defeat from the jaws of victory.
Since when did the Politico ever report anything?
This is damage control spin trying to make the GOP look bad.
Whenever they want to interfere with effective messaging by the GOP they always find ‘unnamed sources’, ‘staffers in the know’, and ‘party leaders’ to semi-quote.
BTTT
“Looks like Demint is doing all the real leading”
I called his office in D C thanking him, and mentioned Free Republic. All Freepers should do the same.
More likely tho, the GOP has many, many, commie aiders and abettors. They are afraid, weak, and are suffering the pathology of battered wife syndrome.
Useful idiots.
“If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
Here is what the liberal communist media cut out...
And we will show that we can, along with the American people, begin to push those Freedom solutions that work in every area of our society."
Communist agenda MSM does not want you to realize there is a common sense solution on this issue that does NOT entail economic slavery.
They want to throw a "poor Øbama" pity party.
To hell with that.
I was not aware the GOP had ANY leaders in the SENATE!!!
It's hard to watch as this horrific piece of crap legislation is actually being debated and pushed after all the years of head banging DeMint, Talent and others similarly motivated underwent.
They all have to watch what the people want!
DeMint is the only one who goes after Obama every time!
The rest are semi-useless to absolutely useless.
Get rid of them NOW!!!!!!!
Palin, Backman and Demitt
Maybe instead of Waterloo he could have said Tours(Poitiers) or Vienna. That might be more appropriate for Obama.
How about Medical Savings Accounts? Republicans came up with this idea, one of the great selling points (I thought) was the catastrophic portion that would cover a person who found himself in a situation where he needed expensive care, surgery, chemo, etc., but his personal bank account didn't cover it. In a way, wasn't that government health/emergency insurance? Anyhoo, you're correct, Dems shot down any and all efforts to correct the ills in the system time and time again, my contention is that first, they would not have received the credit and second, it didn't go far enough to garnering control over the lives of Americans.
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