DNC Enters Health Care Fray, Hammers DeMint And Steele Over “Waterloo”

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/democratic-national-committee/dnc-enters-health-care-fray-hammers-demint-and-steele-over-waterloo/

DNC Enters Health Care Fray, Hammers DeMint And Steele Over “Waterloo”


The White House’s allies are going on the offensive against Jim DeMint and Michael Steele over the claim that the failure of health care reform could be Obama’s “Waterloo,” a sign that Dems recognize the need to ratchet up the attacks and that they hope the “Waterloo” remark could be a game-changer in their favor.

The DNC blasted a new email to its list, weaving the “Waterloo” crack into a larger narrative about GOP efforts to defeat Obama’s entire agenda:

On Friday, GOP Senator Jim DeMint told a special-interest attack group that if they’re “able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” And just this morning, Republican Chairman Michael Steele backed up DeMint’s statement 100%. At the same time, the Republican National Committee is running deceptive ads to scare Americans away from the reform we need.

Their plan is simple: oppose health care reform as a political ploy to weaken the President and defeat his entire agenda of change. But if we follow the Republican “Party of No” and do nothing, we’ll not only ensure more of the same, but saddle our children with a growing burden of exploding costs and declining care that they may never overcome.

We can’t let this kind of slash and burn politics to succeed. We can fight back by collecting as many signatures as possible backing the President’s principles for health care reform. A huge response will show Washington and the media that when Republicans try to “break” the President, Americans are ready to stand up for what’s right.

This is kind of an inverse of the Republican “Waterloo” argument. The DNC’s suggesting that if health care reform tanks, it could be a “Waterloo” for Obama’s “entire agenda of change,” a way of scaring the troops into a massive show of push-back. Probably wouldn’t hurt if White House allies trained more firepower at Senators in their own party, though.

[Avalux]

1. I want to hear blunt language: "Republicans want American citizens to die".

By roadblocking healthcare reform; by not having an alternative to what Obama is trying to do; by wanting to do away with any form of government assisted healthcare - what else can be inferred?

Maybe if the American people hear this sort of language they'll wake up.

[BlueIdaho]

2. And you can add the Blue Dogs to that too...

These republican fellow travelers are more than happy to fiddle while Americans lay sick and dying...