White House Plans to Use DeMint's "Waterloo" Quote to Rally the Troops

[wndycty]

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."

You should expect to hear that quote this week from the White House as they use it to rally their troops, a White House official tells ABC News.

Officials will say the people being "broken" are the American people going bankrupt paying for health insurance premiums that increase 10 percent every year, the source says, and that those who want to use this issue to break the president are doing nothing but working for insurance companies and insurance executives.

DeMint said he could "almost guarantee you this thing won't pass before August, and if we can hold it back until we go home for a month's break in August...Senators and Congressmen will come back in September afraid to vote against the American people."
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/07/white-house-plans-to-use-demints-waterloo-quote-to-rally-the-troops.html

[Pirate Smile]

1. Good.

:)

[Colobo]

2. Good- Let Americans know what Republicans only care about.

They only want to destroy President Obama, and do not give a damn about their constituents.

[Arkana]

3. Excellent! I had hoped they'd do this!

[SpartanDem]

4. Brilliant move make that asshole DeMint eat his words

[HopeOverFear]

5. YES!!!

GOBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Big shout out to DeMint!!!

He singlehandedly exposed the Repukes for the hateful and politically motivated people they are. Hopefully, his comments will put the rest of the Repukes into the uncomfortable position of having to either embrace or disavow his comments. At any rate, his comments should make it that much harder for them now not to work with Obama and Dems to pass something.

[DrToast]

12. Yeah, DeMint really stepped in it here. nt

[PopSixSquish]

7. If This Were an Episode of West Wing

the next scene would be Josh Lyman (Rahm) telling the Republicans to "take their legislative agenda and shove it up their ass"...

Game on fellas...

[Arkana]

8. I liked Toby Ziegler more.

"There's literally no one in this room right now that I don't hate."

[DrToast]

11. Josh Lyman: Waterloo? We're about to go Normandy on your asses!

Game on!

[EffieBlack]

19. Or , to paraphrase one of President Bartlett's classic lines:

"In the future, if you're wondering, 'It will be his waterloo. It will break him' is when I decided to kick your ass."

[Undercurrent]

9. Good! This should be fun to watch.

Club DeMint right into the ground with his own words. He's one of the slimiest Rebub worms. Blech!

[DrToast]

10. Excellent. Shine the light back on the roaches.

Obama needs to ask Republicans (and Democrats) if they stand with DeMint or the American people.

[SpartanDem]

13. kick

[rvablue]

14. Good. n/t

[livetohike]

15. Obstructionists. Can't wait for Pres. Obama to call them out

on this (and other things). He's given the GOP many chances to come to the table with ideas. They present him with B.S. (a budget with no numbers for instance). So if they can't approach issues with serious thought and constructive suggestions, they don't belong at the table with those who do.

[uponit7771]

16. I pray the Obama administration is stayin in front of apparent KKKon tactics

[AspenRose]

17. I hope MoveOn runs with it too.

[OneGrassRoot]

18. He just used it in his live speech (on CNN)

:)