Inhofe: If GOP Can ‘Stall’ Or ‘Block’ Health Care Reform, It Will Be ‘A Huge Gain’ For 2010

[babylonsister]

Inhofe: If GOP Can ‘Stall’ Or ‘Block’ Health Care Reform, It Will Be ‘A Huge Gain’ For The 2010 Elections


Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) stands behind Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)Last week, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) set off a political storm when he said that if Republicans can defeat health care reform it would be President Obama’s “Waterloo” because it would “break him.” Since then, some Republicans have sought to distance themselves from DeMint’s view that defeating health care would yield political advantages for the GOP.

But Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) isn’t shying away from revealing his honest feelings. Appearing on Janet Parshall’s radio show yesterday, Inhofe argued that the defeat of President Clinton’s health care reform “started the demise of Bill Clinton that led to the 1994 Republican takeover of the House and the Senate.” He then added that he is now “tracking the demise” of Obama’s health care plans and it is making him “optimistic”:

INHOFE: They ought to know, they ought to know from history. This is a losing proposition for them. And for those out there who believe, that would like to have something optimistic to look at, we are plotting the demise on a week by week basis of where Bill Clinton was in 1993 and where Obama is today and his demise ratio is greater than Clinton’s was in 1993. So, he’s trying to do the same things, except more extreme.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/23/inhofe-health-huge-gain/

[angstlessk]

1. these assholes are playing politics with people's lives..the fuckers!

how many people are going to fall off of unemployment and can no longer afford the COBRA payments? How many of those will die because of it?

[babylonsister]

3. Yes. That's exactly what they're doing. nt

[Aramchek]

2. someone needs to put Inhofe in a Steel Cage with a Polar Bear, let them talk about Global Warming

[formercia]

4. The GOP doesn't have to do anything

Reid just did it for them.

[sharesunited]

5. He's all yours Oklahoma!

[dflprincess]

6. They may be surprised

the polls show that at least half of those who identify as Republican want real reform that includes strong public option.

[Old and In the Way]

7. I think they are making a beeeeg mistake if they think this is 1993 all over again.

Turns out Clinton was right about the need for healthcare reform. But the circumstances between 1994 and 2010 are way different. The whole debate is far more developed and the issues are much better understood today...we didn't really have an internet medium to provide the context. We also didn't the history of 8 years of Bush/Cheney Republicanism to frame this debate. If these obstructionists think the American voter is going to blame the Obama administration and the majority of Democrats for failing to get healthcare reform in the face of monolithic Republican opposition...well, let them misread history.

[JDPriestly]

8. If you are from Nevada, please send a copy of this article to Reid.

He is impeding progress on health care. He should forget about bi-partisanship on this one and strong-arm Democrats who are not supporting this reform.

[Turbineguy]

9. They must own stock

in funeral companies and cemeteries.

[Union Yes]

10. They're willing to wage genocide on the sick and poor for political gain.

Pukes freely admit their willingness.

Did their bible "tell" them so? Or did god speak to them?


Repukes represent all that is evil about human beings.