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Mon Mar-22-10 02:59 PM
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Can someone explain the "waterloo" analogy to the HC bill? |
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I caught the David Frum blog, but I still don't get the connection...
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Mon Mar-22-10 02:59 PM
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1. Jim DeMint is a huge Abba fan. n/t |
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:17 PM
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7. And now it's today's earworm...at least for me... |
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...I actually like the song...hated ABBA when they were big, but now i like the stuff.
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Mon Mar-22-10 04:30 PM
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11. So true - In fact, I think people should play that song at every campaign event |
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he goes to. It could become his theme song. (If there are any candidates who want him to campaign for them. )
Maybe talented people in the Senate could hum or sing it when he comes near in committee meetings or on the floor.
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:00 PM
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2. The "loo" is the toilet, which has water in it.... |
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...essentially, Frum is saying the GOP is circling the drain.
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:03 PM
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3. Seriously, Waterloo marked the collapse of Napoleon's expansionist goals... |
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He invested all his military power in an invasion of Russia, and when it didn't pan out, he lost all his military resources and his Empire collapsed.
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:05 PM
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5. and some GOPer said that the HCR bill is going to be Obama's Waterloo. |
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way back. I think that's really what all the 'loo thing is about and not toilets or anything.
might be waterloo but Obama wasn't Napoleon - he was Wellington. ;)
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:04 PM
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4. DeMint is getting his ass heavily ABBA'd on Facebook |
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dozens of postings of Abba's Waterloo vid.
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:07 PM
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6. Waterloo was Senator DeMint's analogy |
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Last year, DeMint "promised" that health care reform wouldn't pass and be Obama's Waterloo.
Suddenly, it's DeMint and the GOP who are playing the part of Napoleon.
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:21 PM
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8. Republicans said stopping HC was Obama's Waterloo |
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Waterloo was Napoleons defeat.
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:54 PM
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9. People with a shallow understanding of military history associate "Waterloo" with Napoleon's downfal |
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He had already been captured once and sent to exile; he escaped and assembled a halfhearted army. He had really been defeated for a year, but he made one last grandstanding attempt to sustain his legacy.
Still, in today's parlance it basically means any epic defeat that makes a great leader fall, even though that's pretty much exactly not what happened at the actual Waterloo.
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Mon Mar-22-10 03:57 PM
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Napoleon had lost a major campaign in Spain, and then his major loss was of course the old "land invasion of Russia" campaign, which didn't work well for Hitler either.
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Mon Mar-22-10 05:06 PM
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12. "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." |
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Not sure who said it, but I think I picked it up from The Preppy Handbook.
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