DeMint: If We Stop Health Reform, It Will 'Break' Obama

[kpete]

July 17, 2009
Categories: Healthcare
Health reform foes plan Obama's 'Waterloo'

Conservative leaders will push delay any vote on health care reform until after the August recess to capitalize on what they say is a growing tide of opposition to reform measures, they said on a conference call with "tea party" participants today.

"I can 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," members of Congress will hear from "outraged" constituents, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint said on the call, which was organized by the group Conservatives for Patients Rights.

"Senators and Congressmen will come back in September afraid to vote against the American people," DeMint predicted, adding that "this health care issue Is D-Day for freedom in America."

"If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him," he said.

more:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Health_reform_foes_plan_Obamas_Waterloo.html?showall
via:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

[Eric J in MN]

1. There is some truth to that.

Bill Clinton get re-elected after health care reform failed, but it would be more difficult for Obama with premiums much bigger now then in the early 1990s (and consequently more people who want change in the health care system.)

[Deja Q]

5. People used the same argument over the twins getting their new stadium...

I recall the media and the pundits whining "Why didn't we do it sooner when it was less expensive?"

Well, the overpaid brats got what they wanted. You're welcome, since we taxpayers paid the bill... while being told "pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps"...

[Avalux]

2. That's how Pukes roll. It's all a game - they don't give a shit about any of us.

Their goal - from the day Obama stepped into office until the day he leaves - is to break him. Doesn't matter how it's done and it doesn't matter if the country and all of us suffer for it.

Obama needs to take what DeMented has said and use it in the court of public opinion. He still has the majority on his side.

[Still Sensible]

11. Bingo. n/t

[Frank Booth]

20. Unfortunately, many "Dems" don't give a shit about us either.

In a letter to the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Polis and 20 other freshman Democrats said they were “extremely concerned that the proposed method of paying for health care reform will negatively impact small businesses, the backbone of the American economy.”
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The group included three senators, Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska; and Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins, Republicans of Maine, who met with Mr. Obama at the White House this week and urged him not to rush the bill.

“The legislative process right now is going in the wrong direction,” said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut independent, who also signed the letter. “I think it’s extremely doable to get this done before the end of the year. But just to try to get it passed in the Senate before we leave for the August recess seems just about impossible. It’s just too big a bill.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/health/policy/18health.html?hp

[OregonBlue]

21. Hey, don't forget Ron Wyden. He also voted for the big pharma bill and Bush's

tax cuts. He's up for re-election in 2010. Can anyone say primary!!!

[spanone]

3. this is what the fucked up state of our politics is all about...not about helping the people

it's all about fucking over your opponent. it's futile

[peekaloo]

4. die laughing asshole(s)

[DailyGrind51]

6. It's the truth and the President knows it!

He and Rahm need to start kicking some legislative ass and taking names!

[backscatter712]

7. If we get real health reform through, it will break the GOP!

If it goes through and stays in place for even a couple years, it will become a third-rail program, and the GOP won't be able to take it away. And if it's implemented, the GOP won't be able to take back Congress for decades!

[rucky]

8. er. yeah. Gotta have a dream - I guess.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. DeMented.

[saltpoint]

10. Bitter Jim does like to throw his little tantrums.

[Kingofalldems]

12. How can we stop the fake Democrat(s) on DU who post

any story they can find that would serve to undercut Health Care Reform?

[Buzz Clik]

14. Use the Alert button?

Are you referring to kpete in your post?

[Kingofalldems]

24. No way. Kpete is great.

[kpete]

18. ouch

...kp

[Kingofalldems]

25. Referring to others

Keep your great posts coming.

[ibegurpard]

22. I will continue to oppose

any "reform" that simply mandates insurance for everyone.

[Buzz Clik]

13. Yeah. Of course it will.

[HughMoran]

15. Is that all that's left of the party of NO?

Fucking hate-filled losers.

:eyes:

Can they get any more pathetic?

[CanonRay]

16. Now we get to the "real" Rethug agenda

[PA Democrat]

17. If people die or go bankrupt because of the current crappy system, it is OK with them,

as long as they can "break" Obama. They disgust me.

Let DeMint know how disgusting you find his efforts to deny Americans affordable health care in the pursuit of cheap political games.

Phone:
DC Office: 202-224-6121
SC Office: 864-233-5366

Email Link:
http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

Snail Mail Address:
Mailing address:
340 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
(all mail delayed at least 2 weeks)

[jimshoes]

19. Way to support the President in wartime

LOSER!

[Hydra]

23. The sick thing here

Is that the Repubs tell us that they don't want to play ball and why...and yet "Bipartisanship" is insisted upon.

Obama should use this admission- push through single payer over the crocodile tears of these whiners and shut them out FOREVER.

We only get so many chances to remove a traitorous party. We missed the first chance by investigating all of them. Let's not miss this one.

[rucky]

26. Toby! Kunta Kinte! Toby! Kunta Kinte!

[defendandprotect]

27. K&R back later

[Wednesdays]

28. K&R

:kick: