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Obama to Dems wavering on health care: “You’re going to destroy my presidency”
Hotair ^ | 7/22/2009 | Allahpundit

Posted on 07/22/2009 9:17:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Like I told you the other day: It’s all about the O. Isn’t it always?

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.’”

Consider this a complete vindication of DeMint’s point, which Obama pretended to take such offense at, that if the GOP defeats ObamaCare, “it will be his Waterloo, it will break him…” Evidently The One couldn’t agree more, and with good reason. If he can’t deliver on his centerpiece policy goal with bulletproof majorities in Congress, not only will it haunt him in 2012 but he’ll have to reconsider the public’s appetite for the whole Hopenchange/Great Society agenda. Failure wouldn’t destroy his presidency so much as it would destroy his presidency as he imagined it; he’d have to remake himself as a sort of Clintonian centrist and become the “pragmatist” all those thoughtful conservatives like David Brooks and Christopher Buckley promised us he’d be before he was sworn in and started pushing 13-digit deficits.

Here’s Krauthammer from last night’s “Special Report” explaining the stakes and why, in the end, Obama will swallow whatever watered-down crap Congress hands him. Hint: It’s all about the O.

CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhohealthcare; bhowaterloo; democrats; healthcare; obama; obamacare; socializedmedicine
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell Jim what you think, I did. He’s working for the Citizens of America.

http://www.jimdemint.com/blog/2009/07/your-thoughts-on-health-care/


21 posted on 07/22/2009 9:26:42 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (-0 retreats, Iraq explodes! NK fires missiles! Iran erupts! China erupts!)
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To: Mogollon
Yep. Obamacare is the ball-game. If zer0 gets that, then full-scale socialism will follow in short order. Reagan warned us about this.

It became clear to me why Obama wanted a stimulus package that wouldn't kick in for a couple years, if at all. He needs high unemployment because when people lose their jobs they lose their health insurance. When they lose their helth insurance, they are more likely to go along with socialized medicine.

Obama planned to hurt this country so that he could implement his Marxist brand of socialism. Just wait until he nationalizes the oil companies. The Continental shelf, ANWR, Bakken field and oil shale will yield a large booty for the democrats to give to friends and supporters.

22 posted on 07/22/2009 9:26:55 AM PDT by Go Gordon
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To: TribalPrincess2U

A big AMEN!!!! to your post. God help the USA


23 posted on 07/22/2009 9:27:49 AM PDT by jesseam (Been there and done that!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Better your presidency, than My Country.


24 posted on 07/22/2009 9:28:32 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: rawhide
“You’re going to destroy my country”

zero: Whatever gave you the impression that I had anything else in mind?

25 posted on 07/22/2009 9:28:35 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: SeekAndFind


Bama's got it covered: Former Comunity Actvist and now Special Aides to the President Mr. Buster Leggs and Mr. Imam Thug are working to gather votes for the President National Healthcare Plan.
26 posted on 07/22/2009 9:28:58 AM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: SeekAndFind

The real victims here are the American public, who are going to get stuck with an ill-considered piece of junk. Obama’s presidency won’t be “over” if this bill doesn’t pass. Is it too much to ask Congress to act responsibly and thoughtfully?


27 posted on 07/22/2009 9:30:55 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: SeekAndFind
You're going to destroy my presidency"

And, that would be a bad thing because.......???

Actually, that would be the best thing that ever happened to America!!

Obama is like a spoiled child. He is not able to accept responsibility for his OWN actions. If something goes wrong, it's always someone else's fault!

28 posted on 07/22/2009 9:33:38 AM PDT by NRA2BFree
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL. I thought this was not about Obama? Didnt he just say that?

On MSNBC K.O. (David Schuster host) they are claiming failure of this bill will hurt republicans, delusional!!!


29 posted on 07/22/2009 9:33:48 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps Democrats are seeing their own destruction if they follow Obama over the abyss.


30 posted on 07/22/2009 9:35:45 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: sickoflibs
On MSNBC K.O. (David Schuster host) they are claiming failure of this bill will hurt republicans, delusional!!!

Yeah 0 will send his thugs out to convince them it's for their own good.

WATERLOO TIME....NOW OR NEVER!

31 posted on 07/22/2009 9:38:03 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (-0 retreats, Iraq explodes! NK fires missiles! Iran erupts! China erupts!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

I love this week, Obama is coming unhinged and teacher’s pet finally got his first D. I’d love it even more but this tool has the nuclear football and command over our armed forces.


32 posted on 07/22/2009 9:38:18 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: SeekAndFind

Does anyone else hear Jimmy Carter laughing softly in the Background??


33 posted on 07/22/2009 9:38:18 AM PDT by noname07718 (Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction-Ronald Reagan 1993)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bush’s Fault?


34 posted on 07/22/2009 9:39:29 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree and think 25 to life would be appropriate.)
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To: noname07718

We need a photshopped pic of Napoleon with Obama’s face.


35 posted on 07/22/2009 9:39:51 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: jesseam

Thank you.

We must keep pressure on the Blue Dogs as well as our own reps.
and thank the reps that REPRESENT THE CITIZENS OF AMERICA!


36 posted on 07/22/2009 9:39:53 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (-0 retreats, Iraq explodes! NK fires missiles! Iran erupts! China erupts!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"I'm supposed to get what I want.
I'm always supposed to get what I want."


37 posted on 07/22/2009 9:42:07 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Komrade Obie says: "This is not your Father's America!")
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To: SeekAndFind

Will the democrats MARTYR him by labor Day?..
You know, convert him into Barry Half-White
crooning hopenchange and “show me the money”...

The funeral(s) would be like scratching on a blackboard..
as the main stream media installed him as political saint..

Joe Biden would indeed make a better Prez.. tho..
as long as he lasted with the Hildebeast as VeeP..
You know before the trajic airplane accident..
that would install her nibs as Prez..


38 posted on 07/22/2009 9:42:12 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: pburgh01
I’d love it even more but this tool has the nuclear football and command over our armed forces.

Yes, with someone having severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder getting ridiculed, its not good for him to have these resources at hand, when he melts down.
40 posted on 07/22/2009 9:44:18 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (Forget going Galt. Its time to go Braveheart.)
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