Obama Voters, The Real Failures

Obama Voters, The Real Failures

The idiocy of this is multifaceted.

In 2008 there were republicans who didn't vote for the GOP ticket that year because of warranted, justified fears of Palin becoming president.

In 2012 republicans nominated a weak, indecisive, flip-flopping candidate who succeeded in only expressing his disdain and contempt for 47 percent of the American population.

And Obama voters are the 'failures.'
Hey genius. There were Democrats who didnt vote for Obama in 2008 over his handling of Hillary.
There were Democrats who didnt vote for him again in 2012 because of his incompetence in office.
In 2012 the GOP nominated someone who has been proved to have been correct on all major foreign policy issues. Romney as well.
 
The prescient Michael Goodwin writes that Obama's ship is sinking....but with every nail he hammers into this coffin....remember that voters had a choice, and judged this ship seaworthy.




1."...rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan... [but] most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.

2. They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency.... it may already be too late to save the SS Obama.




3. The whole second term has been a string of disasters, with the toxic brew of his Obamacare lies, middling economic growth and violent global breakdown casting doubt on the president’s stewardship. Six years into his tenure, nothing is going as promised.

4. ...the magic of his rhetoric is long gone, and not just because the public has tuned him out.
They’ve tuned him out because they’ve made up their minds about him. They no longer trust him and don’t think he’s a good leader.

5. ...findings turned up in a tsunami of recent polls that amount to a public vote of no confidence. They shook up the White House so much that the plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants was put on hold to try to protect Democratic candidates from voter wrath in November.




6. ...but it doesn’t change the basic calculation. The president’s problem is that he has been wrong about virtually every major issue.

7. His worldview, his politics, his prejudices, his habits — they’ve been a mismatch for the country and its needs. He has been a dud even in the one area where he seemed a lock to make things better, racial relations. Only 10 percent believe race relations have improved under him, while 35 percent said they are worse.....




8. Barack Obama was not ready to be president, and still isn’t. It is a fantasy to believe he’ll master the art in his final two years.
The lasting image will be his yukking it up on the golf course minutes after giving a perfunctory speech on the beheading of James Foley. It revealed him as hollow, both to America and the world, and there is no way to un-see the emptiness.

9. Obama’s fecklessness is so unique that our adversaries and enemies surely realize they will never face a weaker president.

10. Throw in the fact that Europe largely has scrapped its military might to pay for its welfare states, and the entire West is a diminished, confused opponent, ripe for the taking."
Obama s ship is sinking New York Post





Perhaps the first vote can be chalked up to best hopes....but the second election was a one question IQ test....and everyone who looked at this failure and pulled the Democrat lever....well....those are the real failures, and responsible for what we face today.

Let's hope that the failures who put this windbag back in office haven't doomed all of us!
A loser calling us failures? this is rich.
 
I don't see Obama as a failure. I see a failure to work together in Washington, fueled and orchestrated mostly by Republicans who have made it clear from the very beginning that their motivation was to make sure Obama fails.
Elections have consequences and I won.-Obama
Fuck em, we've got the votes.-Rahm.

The Obama Administration came in with the attitude they didnt have to compromise because they had control over Congress and the White House. For that reason they used every dirty trick to pass Obamacare without a single GOP vote. No other major social program got zero votes from the other party. Obama has never compromised. He is incapable of it.

BULLSHIT...

July 20, 2009
REFORM OPPONENTS CAN'T DO IT ALONE.... Last week, in a variety of television appearances, Sen. Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina said he'd like to see the health care reform push slow down. DeMint proceeded to tell a conservative conference call what he really hoped to accomplish: "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

Today, RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorsed this approach.

At the end of the address he was asked by the Huffington Post whether he agreed with Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) assessment that health care reform could be Obama's Waterloo -- a chance for the Republican Party to break the president politically. "I think that's a good way to put it," he responded.

There seems to be a pattern. If the right can force a delay, then the right can defeat reform and deliver a serious blow to the White House. It's the strategy GOP consultant and CNN personality Alex Castellanos presented for his party: "If we slow this sausage-making process down, we can defeat it."

Bill Kristol is obviously on board with this, saying today there will be "plenty of time to work [on health care] next year," just so long as Republicans "go for the kill" now.

The strategy is surprisingly transparent -- slow things down, kill real reform, crush Obama. ref



George W. Bush's speechwriter...

Waterloo
March 21st, 2010 at 4:59 pm David Frum

Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.

It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. But:

(1) It’s a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November – by then the economy will have improved and the immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs.

(2) So what? Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now.

So far, I think a lot of conservatives will agree with me. Now comes the hard lesson:

A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.

At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.

Only, the hardliners overlooked a few key facts: Obama was elected with 53% of the vote, not Clinton’s 42%. The liberal block within the Democratic congressional caucus is bigger and stronger than it was in 1993-94. And of course the Democrats also remember their history, and also remember the consequences of their 1994 failure.

This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none.

Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? But we do know that the gap between this plan and traditional Republican ideas is not very big. The Obama plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts plan. It builds on ideas developed at the Heritage Foundation in the early 1990s that formed the basis for Republican counter-proposals to Clintoncare in 1993-1994.

Barack Obama badly wanted Republican votes for his plan. Could we have leveraged his desire to align the plan more closely with conservative views? To finance it without redistributive taxes on productive enterprise – without weighing so heavily on small business – without expanding Medicaid? Too late now. They are all the law.

No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the “doughnut hole” and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents’ insurance coverage? And even if the votes were there – would President Obama sign such a repeal?

We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.


There were leaders who knew better, who would have liked to deal. But they were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had whipped the Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making was rendered impossible. How do you negotiate with somebody who wants to murder your grandmother? Or – more exactly – with somebody whom your voters have been persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother?


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The prescient Michael Goodwin writes that Obama's ship is sinking....but with every nail he hammers into this coffin....remember that voters had a choice, and judged this ship seaworthy.




1."...rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan... [but] most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.

2. They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency.... it may already be too late to save the SS Obama.




3. The whole second term has been a string of disasters, with the toxic brew of his Obamacare lies, middling economic growth and violent global breakdown casting doubt on the president’s stewardship. Six years into his tenure, nothing is going as promised.

4. ...the magic of his rhetoric is long gone, and not just because the public has tuned him out.
They’ve tuned him out because they’ve made up their minds about him. They no longer trust him and don’t think he’s a good leader.

5. ...findings turned up in a tsunami of recent polls that amount to a public vote of no confidence. They shook up the White House so much that the plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants was put on hold to try to protect Democratic candidates from voter wrath in November.




6. ...but it doesn’t change the basic calculation. The president’s problem is that he has been wrong about virtually every major issue.

7. His worldview, his politics, his prejudices, his habits — they’ve been a mismatch for the country and its needs. He has been a dud even in the one area where he seemed a lock to make things better, racial relations. Only 10 percent believe race relations have improved under him, while 35 percent said they are worse.....




8. Barack Obama was not ready to be president, and still isn’t. It is a fantasy to believe he’ll master the art in his final two years.
The lasting image will be his yukking it up on the golf course minutes after giving a perfunctory speech on the beheading of James Foley. It revealed him as hollow, both to America and the world, and there is no way to un-see the emptiness.

9. Obama’s fecklessness is so unique that our adversaries and enemies surely realize they will never face a weaker president.

10. Throw in the fact that Europe largely has scrapped its military might to pay for its welfare states, and the entire West is a diminished, confused opponent, ripe for the taking."
Obama s ship is sinking New York Post





Perhaps the first vote can be chalked up to best hopes....but the second election was a one question IQ test....and everyone who looked at this failure and pulled the Democrat lever....well....those are the real failures, and responsible for what we face today.

Let's hope that the failures who put this windbag back in office haven't doomed all of us!
A loser calling us failures? this is rich.

"...doomed us all..." lol, the high drama of the RW handwringers is always amusing.
 
The prescient Michael Goodwin writes that Obama's ship is sinking....but with every nail he hammers into this coffin....remember that voters had a choice, and judged this ship seaworthy.




1."...rising clamor over the beheading of two Americans, and rapidly sinking polls, forced President Obama to reassure the nation last week he had a plan... [but] most military analysts believe the expanded airstrikes will not be a sufficient match for the size and weaponry of the terrorist army.

2. They miss the point. The disjointed speech wasn’t really about terrorism and launching a new war. It was about saving Obama’s presidency.... it may already be too late to save the SS Obama.




3. The whole second term has been a string of disasters, with the toxic brew of his Obamacare lies, middling economic growth and violent global breakdown casting doubt on the president’s stewardship. Six years into his tenure, nothing is going as promised.

4. ...the magic of his rhetoric is long gone, and not just because the public has tuned him out.
They’ve tuned him out because they’ve made up their minds about him. They no longer trust him and don’t think he’s a good leader.

5. ...findings turned up in a tsunami of recent polls that amount to a public vote of no confidence. They shook up the White House so much that the plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants was put on hold to try to protect Democratic candidates from voter wrath in November.




6. ...but it doesn’t change the basic calculation. The president’s problem is that he has been wrong about virtually every major issue.

7. His worldview, his politics, his prejudices, his habits — they’ve been a mismatch for the country and its needs. He has been a dud even in the one area where he seemed a lock to make things better, racial relations. Only 10 percent believe race relations have improved under him, while 35 percent said they are worse.....




8. Barack Obama was not ready to be president, and still isn’t. It is a fantasy to believe he’ll master the art in his final two years.
The lasting image will be his yukking it up on the golf course minutes after giving a perfunctory speech on the beheading of James Foley. It revealed him as hollow, both to America and the world, and there is no way to un-see the emptiness.

9. Obama’s fecklessness is so unique that our adversaries and enemies surely realize they will never face a weaker president.

10. Throw in the fact that Europe largely has scrapped its military might to pay for its welfare states, and the entire West is a diminished, confused opponent, ripe for the taking."
Obama s ship is sinking New York Post





Perhaps the first vote can be chalked up to best hopes....but the second election was a one question IQ test....and everyone who looked at this failure and pulled the Democrat lever....well....those are the real failures, and responsible for what we face today.

Let's hope that the failures who put this windbag back in office haven't doomed all of us!
A loser calling us failures? this is rich.



Accept the appellation.....you've earned it!
 
Um, i'm not sure kiling bin Laden would have stopped 9/11 at all.

Bin Laden has been dead for four years now (Thanks, Obama!) AL Qaeda hasn't gone away.

Of course, it would have been really nice had Reagan not armed Bin Laden and other militants in the 1980's and called them Freedom Fighters because they were killing Russians who were trying to teach girls how to read.

Maybe if we stopped sticking our dicks in the Mid-East Hornet's nest, we could stop complaining about getting stung.
Carter started arming the Mujaheddin and Reagan simply continued that policy which was very helpful in the eventual fall of the USSR:
The CIA s Operation Cyclone - Stirring The Hornet s Nest Of Islamic Unrest

Suck it up Joe. You've taken it up the backside in 3 straight posts, but then you're used to it.

Regardless of who started it, arming these fools was a bad idea. There were a whole bunch of people in the CIA who came back from Afghanistan and told Reagan, "Hey, these guys are fucking crazy!"

Reagan called them "Freedom Fighters".

you know, frankly, given the choice between Communists and Jihadists as enemies, I think you could reason with the COmmunists.
 
Um, i'm not sure kiling bin Laden would have stopped 9/11 at all.

Bin Laden has been dead for four years now (Thanks, Obama!) AL Qaeda hasn't gone away.

Of course, it would have been really nice had Reagan not armed Bin Laden and other militants in the 1980's and called them Freedom Fighters because they were killing Russians who were trying to teach girls how to read.

Maybe if we stopped sticking our dicks in the Mid-East Hornet's nest, we could stop complaining about getting stung.
Carter started arming the Mujaheddin and Reagan simply continued that policy which was very helpful in the eventual fall of the USSR:
The CIA s Operation Cyclone - Stirring The Hornet s Nest Of Islamic Unrest

Suck it up Joe. You've taken it up the backside in 3 straight posts, but then you're used to it.

Regardless of who started it, arming these fools was a bad idea. There were a whole bunch of people in the CIA who came back from Afghanistan and told Reagan, "Hey, these guys are fucking crazy!"

Reagan called them "Freedom Fighters".

you know, frankly, given the choice between Communists and Jihadists as enemies, I think you could reason with the COmmunists.



"you know, frankly, given the choice between Communists and Jihadists as enemies, I think you could reason with the COmmunists."

Thank you, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
 
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"you know, frankly, given the choice between Communists and Jihadists as enemies, I think you could reason with the COmmunists."

Thank you, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Wow, you're comparing me to America's greatest president? Thanks.

Anyway, Communists don't think they are going to get 76 virgins to bang for all eternity if they blow you up in a suicide attack.
 
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"you know, frankly, given the choice between Communists and Jihadists as enemies, I think you could reason with the COmmunists."

Thank you, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Wow, you're comparing me to America's greatest president? Thanks.

Anyway, Communists don't think they are going to get 76 virgins to bang for all eternity if they blow you up in a suicide attack.



Imagine.....if only you actually knew anything.

1. Compare the Islamists with this:
"The Soviet Union led the world with an extraordinary increase in nuclear and conventional arms. The Soviet Union had 4.9 million active soldiers, 42,000 tanks, 2,200 warships, 15,000 combat planes, 1,500 long-range nuclear-tipped missiles, 1,000 short-range nuclear missiles and 900 sub-based nuclear missiles.

Soviet bombers equipped with nuclear weapons frequently flew off the U.S. coast. Soviet submarines armed with nuclear-tipped missiles prowled off both U.S. coastlines, within 100 miles of the most populated coastal American cities.

In Europe, the Soviets had 10 tank divisions in East Germany alone, backed by another 20 tank divisions poised across the border in Poland and Russia. Thousands of armored vehicles were ready to pour across the Fulda Gap and flow into West Germany.

During one Soviet armored exercise in East Germany, an Army general once commented to me that he could walk from the East German border to Poland on Soviet tanks, never touching the earth beneath them."
NewsMax Archives


2. And, those communists with whom you'd rather deal, 'reason'?

a. Why, ever, sign treaties with the communists? Why?
In 1982, Ronald Reagan asked his arms control advisory committee to conduct a review of Soviet compliance in the 25 years of arms control treaties. It was the first such concerted review ever. The answer to the question of Soviet arms controls compliance was that there was none.
West, "American Betrayal," p. 198.

b. "The Soviet Union repeatedly violates treaties, and the rest of the world turns their heads and proceeds to enter into still more treaties, which the Soviets violate with impunity."
Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., "Why the Soviets Violate Arms Control Treaties," vii, p. 83.



So....to choose between the two...
What a choice! That’s like asking me whether I’d rather be O.J.’s girlfriend, or Michael Schiavo’s wife.
 
Yawn, I was in the Army at the last stage of the Cold War and we convinced ourselves the Russians were these horrible bogymen...

And they really weren't. The "Evil Empire" just happened to be a group of poor countries that were probably just as scared of us as we were of them.

Maybe you need to stop reading Reverand Moon's version of history.
 
Yawn, I was in the Army at the last stage of the Cold War and we convinced ourselves the Russians were these horrible bogymen...

And they really weren't. The "Evil Empire" just happened to be a group of poor countries that were probably just as scared of us as we were of them.

Maybe you need to stop reading Reverand Moon's version of history.



I just posted facts.

You, an update on your hallucinations.
 
I don't see Obama as a failure. I see a failure to work together in Washington, fueled and orchestrated mostly by Republicans who have made it clear from the very beginning that their motivation was to make sure Obama fails.
Elections have consequences and I won.-Obama
Fuck em, we've got the votes.-Rahm.

The Obama Administration came in with the attitude they didnt have to compromise because they had control over Congress and the White House. For that reason they used every dirty trick to pass Obamacare without a single GOP vote. No other major social program got zero votes from the other party. Obama has never compromised. He is incapable of it.

BULLSHIT...

July 20, 2009
REFORM OPPONENTS CAN'T DO IT ALONE.... Last week, in a variety of television appearances, Sen. Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina said he'd like to see the health care reform push slow down. DeMint proceeded to tell a conservative conference call what he really hoped to accomplish: "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

Today, RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorsed this approach.

At the end of the address he was asked by the Huffington Post whether he agreed with Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) assessment that health care reform could be Obama's Waterloo -- a chance for the Republican Party to break the president politically. "I think that's a good way to put it," he responded.

There seems to be a pattern. If the right can force a delay, then the right can defeat reform and deliver a serious blow to the White House. It's the strategy GOP consultant and CNN personality Alex Castellanos presented for his party: "If we slow this sausage-making process down, we can defeat it."

Bill Kristol is obviously on board with this, saying today there will be "plenty of time to work [on health care] next year," just so long as Republicans "go for the kill" now.

The strategy is surprisingly transparent -- slow things down, kill real reform, crush Obama. ref



George W. Bush's speechwriter...

Waterloo
March 21st, 2010 at 4:59 pm David Frum

Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.

I
Your link does not prove Obama tried to compromise. Actually the opposite. The GOP was so intent on stopping him because he would not compromise.
Second, six months after "the most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s" the GOP won an unprecedented number of House seats in sweeping elections.
Oops.
 
I don't see Obama as a failure. I see a failure to work together in Washington, fueled and orchestrated mostly by Republicans who have made it clear from the very beginning that their motivation was to make sure Obama fails.
Elections have consequences and I won.-Obama
Fuck em, we've got the votes.-Rahm.

The Obama Administration came in with the attitude they didnt have to compromise because they had control over Congress and the White House. For that reason they used every dirty trick to pass Obamacare without a single GOP vote. No other major social program got zero votes from the other party. Obama has never compromised. He is incapable of it.

BULLSHIT...

July 20, 2009
REFORM OPPONENTS CAN'T DO IT ALONE.... Last week, in a variety of television appearances, Sen. Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina said he'd like to see the health care reform push slow down. DeMint proceeded to tell a conservative conference call what he really hoped to accomplish: "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

Today, RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorsed this approach.

At the end of the address he was asked by the Huffington Post whether he agreed with Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) assessment that health care reform could be Obama's Waterloo -- a chance for the Republican Party to break the president politically. "I think that's a good way to put it," he responded.

There seems to be a pattern. If the right can force a delay, then the right can defeat reform and deliver a serious blow to the White House. It's the strategy GOP consultant and CNN personality Alex Castellanos presented for his party: "If we slow this sausage-making process down, we can defeat it."

Bill Kristol is obviously on board with this, saying today there will be "plenty of time to work [on health care] next year," just so long as Republicans "go for the kill" now.

The strategy is surprisingly transparent -- slow things down, kill real reform, crush Obama. ref



George W. Bush's speechwriter...

Waterloo
March 21st, 2010 at 4:59 pm David Frum

Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.

I
Your link does not prove Obama tried to compromise. Actually the opposite. The GOP was so intent on stopping him because he would not compromise.
Second, six months after "the most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s" the GOP won an unprecedented number of House seats in sweeping elections.
Oops.


Obama Gathers Leaders at Healthcare Summit
March 15, 2010
On February 25, twenty-one Congressional leaders and top committee members debated controlling costs, insurance reform, and expanding coverage at President Obama's highly anticipated bipartisan healthcare summit.
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Okay, reality check.

Obama ordered airstrikes because that doesn't get us involved.

Right now, people are all upset that ISIL is executing journalists.

Will they still be upset in a year? Nope.

So why commit to something you'll be defending in a year?

I'm still happy my country wasn't handed over to the Evil Mormon Cult. You should be, too.

Obama ordered airstrikes because that doesn't get us involved.

What?

Did the Koch Brother hack your account to make you look like an idiot?

Doesn't put boots on the ground or rely on a 10 year commitment. He can stop the bombing on a moment's notice. And he probably will when people stop caring.

In other words, his "coalition of forces" to go after the EVIL ISIL was just another political move. He'll stop the bombing and leave any coalition members hanging once people "stop caring". That sounds like the Obama we all have learned to know, love and respect! :wtf:
 
Yawn, I was in the Army at the last stage of the Cold War and we convinced ourselves the Russians were these horrible bogymen...

And they really weren't. The "Evil Empire" just happened to be a group of poor countries that were probably just as scared of us as we were of them.

Maybe you need to stop reading Reverand Moon's version of history.



I just posted facts.

You, an update on your hallucinations.

Look, I know you are a card-carrying Moonie and stuff, but the rest of us aren't still obsessed about the mean old Communists.
 
Doesn't put boots on the ground or rely on a 10 year commitment. He can stop the bombing on a moment's notice. And he probably will when people stop caring.

In other words, his "coalition of forces" to go after the EVIL ISIL was just another political move. He'll stop the bombing and leave any coalition members hanging once people "stop caring". That sounds like the Obama we all have learned to know, love and respect! :wtf:

And this is a bad thing, why?

frankly, we are still in Afghanistan after 13 years, no closer to our goal now than we were then.

Hey, you guys want a war, that's fine. Let's have a war.

Let's actually DECLARE war, institute a draft to build up an army and raise taxes to pay for it. If that's what you guys want to do, put your money where your mouth is.

If the IRaqis and Syrians don't see beating ISIL as a big priority, why should we?
 
I don't see Obama as a failure. I see a failure to work together in Washington, fueled and orchestrated mostly by Republicans who have made it clear from the very beginning that their motivation was to make sure Obama fails.
Elections have consequences and I won.-Obama
Fuck em, we've got the votes.-Rahm.

The Obama Administration came in with the attitude they didnt have to compromise because they had control over Congress and the White House. For that reason they used every dirty trick to pass Obamacare without a single GOP vote. No other major social program got zero votes from the other party. Obama has never compromised. He is incapable of it.

BULLSHIT...

July 20, 2009
REFORM OPPONENTS CAN'T DO IT ALONE.... Last week, in a variety of television appearances, Sen. Jim DeMint (R) of South Carolina said he'd like to see the health care reform push slow down. DeMint proceeded to tell a conservative conference call what he really hoped to accomplish: "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

Today, RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorsed this approach.

At the end of the address he was asked by the Huffington Post whether he agreed with Sen. Jim DeMint's (R-S.C.) assessment that health care reform could be Obama's Waterloo -- a chance for the Republican Party to break the president politically. "I think that's a good way to put it," he responded.

There seems to be a pattern. If the right can force a delay, then the right can defeat reform and deliver a serious blow to the White House. It's the strategy GOP consultant and CNN personality Alex Castellanos presented for his party: "If we slow this sausage-making process down, we can defeat it."

Bill Kristol is obviously on board with this, saying today there will be "plenty of time to work [on health care] next year," just so long as Republicans "go for the kill" now.

The strategy is surprisingly transparent -- slow things down, kill real reform, crush Obama. ref



George W. Bush's speechwriter...

Waterloo
March 21st, 2010 at 4:59 pm David Frum

Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.

I
Your link does not prove Obama tried to compromise. Actually the opposite. The GOP was so intent on stopping him because he would not compromise.
Second, six months after "the most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s" the GOP won an unprecedented number of House seats in sweeping elections.
Oops.


Obama Gathers Leaders at Healthcare Summit
March 15, 2010
On February 25, twenty-one Congressional leaders and top committee members debated controlling costs, insurance reform, and expanding coverage at President Obama's highly anticipated bipartisan healthcare summit.
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6_0.jpg


8_0.jpg


3_0.jpg


5_0.jpg
You can gather a bunch of old women, but you don't have to listen to them. Obama knows the value of a photo op.
 

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