Jim DeMint defends his Waterloo remark, saying that Republicans should oppose health care reform in order to hurt President Obama politically:
DeMint doesn't realize it, but far from stopping the President, he's actually helping make the case that Republicans aren't really concerned with health care -- they only care about politics.
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President Obama, July 20, 2009:
Just the other day, one Republican senator said -- and I'm quoting him now -- "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), the very next day, speaking to WIS-TV in South Carolina:
We have to stop him on this issue, otherwise this stampede is going to continue.
We've got to stop the President on this.
I think we have to stop what the President's doing. If not, he'll go straight from this health care takeover to this cap and trade energy tax which he has up next.
President Obama, July 20, 2009:
This isn't about me.
This isn't about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses, and breaking America's economy, and we can't afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care. Not this time, not now.