Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 22, 2009

Why aren’t the voices of congressional Republicans from other parts of the country speaking up? Is Ohio not concerned about the monstrosity of Obama’s socialized health care, Sen. Voinovich? Stop being a worried little lap dog and follow Mr. DeMint’s lead by serving your constituents and showing some GOP backbone.

More on Sen. Jim DeMint’s “Waterloo” statement in regards to ObamaCare:

From conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, July 22, 2009 transcript:

Obama on Edge as Magic Fades; DeMint Hits Nerve with “Waterloo”
EIB Network

RUSH: Now, look I understand it, folks, I totally understand it, but I gotta caution you again. I think people are way too giddy out there on this health care business. I think Obama’s close to going over the edge. I hope nobody talks about his big ears within his earshot today, because this is a guy who grew up charmed, he grew up never laughed at, never teased, never kidded, and probably never criticized.

He doesn’t deal with this very well, and if somebody within his earshot today happens to talk about his big ears it could push him over the edge, so don’t get, in our giddiness out there, thinking this health care thing is defeated, it isn’t, he’s gonna try to win over these Blue Dog Democrats, these so-called Blue Dog Democrats. I’ve seen these pictures the last couple days of Rahm Emanuel, and DeMint was right. This is Waterloo, if he loses this, and he knows it. Chuck Grassley has admitted that a Democrat member of Congress, senator or somewhat, quoting Obama as saying, “You can destroy my presidency.”

It is about him.

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All right, now, the president of the United States says, ladies and gentlemen, that they rescued the economy. The poll numbers are dropping here. There’s an AP-GFK poll and it now shows that a majority of Americans are back to thinking that the country is headed in the wrong direction after a fleeting period in which more thought it was on the right track. The number of people who think Obama can improve the economy is down 19 percentage points from days just before his inauguration. Ditto for expectations about creating jobs.

This is where the Waterloo is, not just in health care. Now, he’s out there, the question was asked yesterday by a caller, and it is a great question to keep asking, “What has Obama done for you? What have the liberal Democrats done for you?”

They’ve been running the show since 2007 on Capitol Hill. Obama’s been running the show with them since January of this year. What have they done for you? Another question, “What have they done to you?” They haven’t done anything for anybody. They can say we rescued the economy as a means of saying, “Well, it would be much, much worse if we hadn’t done what we have done.” They haven’t done anything. We just found out stimulus money is going to be used to put new energy efficient lights at the runways at the Raleigh-Durham airport. Stimulus money. It’s going to cost either six or eight million. How long is it going to take to get the savings back, and this is part of the stimulus bill? It’s absurd. He’s not doing anything for anybody.

Now, let’s get to health care because that’s what the presidential press conference tonight is going to be about. I have a simple question. If health care is such a catastrophe in this country, if there is such a pressing, overwhelming need for reform, why didn’t any of the $1 trillion in Porkulus money go to insuring those who don’t have any insurance? Why didn’t that happen? Now, I ran some numbers, and sometimes when I run numbers I’m off a little bit. So I ran these numbers backwards, forwards, upside down. By my calculation, you have 47 million uninsured people. Now, the assumption is that all of them really wish they had insurance. (crying) “I can’t afford it, it’s not fair.” That’s not true. Not all 47 million want health insurance. There was a guy at a town hall meeting yesterday in Maryland, we played the tape for you, he didn’t want it, he likes having the money to spend on other things. Anyway, you could, for between 30 and $100 billion, you could buy a health insurance policy for a full year for every person who can’t afford it. That’s twelve million people, people that can’t afford it — of course it depends on the policy you look at — between 29 billion and a hundred billion, that’s a broad range, you could cover everybody for a year.

Now, we just spent a trillion dollars in Porkulus. Why didn’t we do that if it’s such a catastrophe? It’s a drop in the bucket for what Obama is spending, not just on Porkulus but TARP, all the bailouts that we’ve had. It’s a drop in the bucket. We don’t need to spend a trillion dollars on health care to insure people. Nowhere near it. Why didn’t the stimulus bill pay for health insurance for the downtrodden? Why not send billions to emergency rooms and hospitals who provide care for anybody who walks in? Why not do that? Why didn’t Obama rescue the people without health insurance while he was rescuing the economy? We have a deficit we can’t pay off; we have unemployment about to go double-digit; Obama wants to destroy the health insurance policies a huge majority of Americans have and like. He isn’t rescuing anything. He’s destroying it. And he’s doing it on purpose. He doesn’t give a damn about anybody but himself and his media. Destroying the American economy is not how anybody helps people and this health care debacle is an absolute debacle. It has no prayer of working and providing greater health care.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Jim DeMint, a senator from South Carolina, has really, really hit pay dirt with his claim that this health care, if it’s defeated, is Obama’s Waterloo. What’s interesting is Obama put his presidency on the line, and then he recoils when DeMint agrees with him. “What do you mean by that, Rush?” Okay. From the National Journal: “A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator’s comparison of the healthcare overhaul to Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth. Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama’s bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes.

“‘Let’s just lay everything on the table,’ Grassley said. ‘A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn’t going to pass if there weren’t some changes made … and the president says, ‘You’re going to destroy my presidency.’” The president told a Democrat member of the house, “You’re going to destroy my presidency.” I thought it wasn’t about him. I thought this wasn’t about him. I thought this was about us! I thought this was about us and our precious health care. No, no, no, no! It’s all about him. He’s worried about his presidency being destroyed. So all DeMint did was say this could be his Waterloo. Obama agrees with him and recoils when DeMint says this. He can’t handle criticism. He’s never been criticized, substantively, I’ll guarantee you.

I know these kind of people, folks. I’ve worked for them; I’ve been fired by them. They’ve never been criticized, never laughed at, never teased. Remember, Maureen Dowd made some comment about his elephant ears during the campaign, and he walked down off the stage and confronted her. He said, “I’m very, very sensitive about my ears,” and she said, “We’re just trying to toughen you up!” So I guarantee you there’s instability over there in the White House. They’ve been coming unhinged because the magic that got him elected is gone. Can you imagine, folks…? Imagine if they’d have done health care first instead of Porkulus. They’d have gotten it. They would.

Nobody would dare stop the first thing he was going to do. He was in his honeymoon, the first black president, historical and all that. He was going to get that. He got that stimulus in two weeks. We better thank our lucky stars — I never thought I would say this, but we better thank our lucky stars — that they did stimulus first. ‘Cause if they had done this first, it would be signed into law already. He woulda gotten it. I’ll bet Rahm Emanuel is kicking himself and the furniture, stabbing steaks with a knife and sending dead fish to himself because he’s all upset about the strategical blunder. Now they started with Porkulus and it ain’t working! It’s not doing anything for anybody, and the poll numbers are plummeting.

And because of that, the health care problem’s in big trouble. Nothing this administration has done has fixed anything, and each and every day, there’s a greater realization of that fact by more and more people…

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NewsVine: Promises, promises: Indian Health Care Victims
Hot Air: An American Government Health Care System You Should Know
Indian Country Today: Trahant: The double standard of government-run health care: Indian Health Service
Why Mommy is a Palin Supporter: Ta’Shon’s Story: A Look at the Government’s Record on Health Care
HoodaThunk?: The single-payer healthcare system in our own backyard.
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Native Americans Against Obama: ‘The Hype’

Related reading on socialized health care and Obama’s Waterloo:
NY Daily News: President Barack Obama slaps back at health care critics at hospital
John Nolte, Big Hollywood: Will Steven Weber Put His Health Where His Ideology Is?
Charles Krauthammer, National Review Online: Why Obamacare Is Sinking – You can’t fake health-care nirvana in legislation
Veronica DiPippo, Big Hollywood: Why Amy Fears Obamacare
Michelle Malkin: Wild Misrepresentation Watch: Obama lies about AARP endorsement and Video: No, you can’t just ram Obamacare through “fast” and Not about you, huh? and The fear-mongerer-in-chief and Dr. Obama applies CPR
Google News, AP: DeMint refuses to take back ‘Waterloo’ statement
The Foxhole: Dem Foes of ObamaCare Will ‘Destroy his Presidency’
The Lonely Conservative: Rush Limbaugh: “The press has met their Waterloo and it’s Obama!”
Jason Killian Meath, Big Hollywood: Obama’s Health Care ‘Money Pit’
Hot Air: Audio: Vitter hits “wishy washy” Voinovich for anti-southern comments and Voinovich: The GOP’s been taken over by southerners and Video: The National Debt Road Trip and CNN wonders: Could Obama be overexposed? and Obama to GOP on fiscal criticism: Have you no shame? and Obama presser: What was the point? and Obama: To Save Healthcare, I must Impugn the Motives of those who Provide It and Open thread: Guy who “rescued” the economy going to “rescue” American health care too and Will the White House press corps be more adversarial tonight? and Obama to Dems wavering on health care: “You’re going to destroy my presidency” and Wow: Dozens of Democrats lining up against ObamaCare over … abortion? and Video: GOP rep says ObamaCare bill tells seniors to “drop dead”
Pundit & Pundette: Obama v America on health care reform and The elderly should be very afraid
Nice Deb: Obama To Dem Congressmen: “You’re Going to Destroy My Presidency”!
Pronk Palisades: Obama’s Waterloo– Government Compulsory Single Payer Socialized Medicine!–Videos
Leigh Scott, Big Hollywood: Has Liberalism Jumped the Shark?
DPGI – the aftermath: Quote of the Day: Obama’s Waterloo
The Great American Tea Party: The Road To Waterloo
JammieWearingFool: ‘You’re Going To Destroy My Presidency’
P.U.M.A.: 24 Hours Later, And Obama’s Press Conf Vid on YouTube draws ONLY 328 Viewers…
Veteran Outrage: Obama lied about the costs of Obamacare!
FOX News: Obama Rejects Claim That Health Care Defeat Could Mark His ‘Waterloo’
PumaBydesign001’s Blog: DURBIN SAYS NO TO “OBAMA DRAMA”…. FOR NOW
MT Pundit: Are Democrats afraid of an informed electorate?
Dancing from Genesis Blog: Rush Limbaugh Show Speeds Up Audio, Accelerates Barack Obama’s Voice Sound Bytes Clips… Republican Senator Jim DeMint Says Health Care Plan Socialized Medicine Legislation is Obama’s Waterloo, Will Break Obama’s Presidency…
Gossiboo: Barack Obama Complains,“You’re Going To Destroy My Presidency.”…They’re NOT Obama, You Are With A Bad Healthcare Bill!!!!
Political Vel Craft: Obama: Is A Sick Joke
Sister Toldjah: CBO pours cold water on Obama admin’s claims about “savings” from ObamaCare
Blog de KingShamus: Obama’s Summer Reruns
VotingFemale Speaks!: Obama Health Care – like All Americans Taking Up A Three Pack a Day Smoking Habit; both Costly and Deadly
Steven Crowder, Big Hollywood: Lonewolf Diaries: The Truth About Dumb, Liberal Canadians and Their Lies
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian: Dems Start To Push Back Hard To Prevent A ‘Waterloo’
John Boehner: Republican Chart Outlines House Democrats’ Government Takeover of Health Care
Hot Air Green Room: Happy talk will not jump-start Obamacare
The Substratum: ObamaCare In The Gallows – Quick, Get A Rope and Socialized Health Care Costs Measured In Lives
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Waterloo: ObamaCare Gauntlet Flung… Jim DeMint, Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer, & ABBA Weigh In (video) and Rush Limbaugh: Would ObamaCare Discriminate? Two Callers Respond on Single-Payer Health Care and Game On: Obama Building Army of Left-wing Bloggers to Keep Socialized Health Care Pressure on Congress and Dems’ Sheep-herding Health Welfare Program Like Eastern Bloc: Reckless Disregard for Economic & Fiscal Reality and Audience Cracks Up When MO Rep. Carnahan Claims ObamaCare Will Save Money: “If It’s So Good, Why Doesn’t Congress Have to Be on It?” (video)
Wellsy’s World: Voinovich on the GOP’s struggle: “It’s the Southerners”
Michelle Malkin: Obamacare for illegal aliens and Obamacare: Code Blue and Barack Obama speaks the truth! Update: Mayo not okay-o with Obamacare and Glimpse of Obamacare future: 83 million would lose private coverage and The more he talks about nationalizing health care and spending more money…
Keithwcaniano’s Blog: When Napoleon was Obama’s age, he was dead.
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