Health Care Overhaul will prove to be Obama's "Waterloo"

[Warph]

This morning's News headline from AP:

"Obama May Have To Wait For Health Care Passage"
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writer Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 22, 7:26 am ET
WASHINGTON – After more than a week of tirelessly pressuring Congress to move his top domestic priority, President Barack Obama may have to settle for a fallback strategy on health care overhaul.
Instead of votes in the House and Senate by August, the best Democrats may be able to hope for this summer is action by the full House by the end of the month and some sort of agreement on a bipartisan plan in the Senate before lawmakers head home for vacation.
Not only are Republicans honing their opposition, but some Democrats in both chambers are voicing doubts about moving such complex and costly legislation too quickly.
"No one wants to tell the speaker (Nancy Pelosi) that she's moving too fast and they damn sure don't want to tell the president," Rep. C. Rangel, D-NY., a key committee chairman, told a fellow lawmaker as the two walked into a closed-door meeting Tuesday. The remark was overheard by reporters.
Obama has scheduled a prime-time news conference today, expected to focus on health care. It's turning into a major test of his leadership. One Republican senator says if the party can stop Obama on health care, it will break him. South Carolina Republican, Sen. Jim McDeMint, refused Wednesday to back away from his earlier assertion that the health care overhaul will prove to be Obama's "Waterloo."

Don't you just love those words, "Obama's Waterloo!"  The Headline should read: "Obama Gives Up Health Care Passage" ... because, it ain't going to pass.

Also, there were two surprises in the House vote for the insane Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill.  The first surprise was that, in spite of Obama's arm-twisting, 44 Democrats had a sufficient amount of nerve and integrity to oppose its passage.  The other surprise was that eight Republicans voted for it.  If even just four of them hadn't sold out America along with their principles, it would have been voted down.  The eight.... were John McHugh (New York), Dave Reichart (Washington), Mark Kirk (Illinois), Mike Castle (Delaware), Mary Bono Mack (California) and, from New Jersey, Frank LoBiondo, Chris Smith and Leonard Lance.... and what turned them is anyone's  guess.  The clowns from Jersey?  Perhaps it was the promise not to let the Justice Department go after the Mafia.  All that I know for certain is that for those eight turncoats, the "R" after their name stands for Rat.

Frankly, I'm not sure if I'm just being guilty of wishful thinking, but I have a hunch that while Obama, this ONE-TERM clown, is doing his best to DESTROY America and capitalism, the lemming-in-chief is leading the party faithful blindly off the cliff.

No matter how personally popular Obama might be, and I am beginning to doubt those particular (made-up) numbers, the same certainly can't be said for his colleagues and cronies.  The truth is, Pelosi and Reid are about as popular as shingles and aids..

Even if the New York Times and Chris Matthews still get a tingle when they look at Obama, most Americans:
--hate socialized medicine and cap and trade;
--hate the idea of the feds being in bed with the unions and nationalizing banks and car companies;
--hate the idea of dismantling our missile defense system at the very same time that Iran and North Korea are threatening us;
---and they particularly HATE the idea of our president going abroad and bad-mouthing America every chance he gets.  Even Bill Clinton stopped doing that once he was past draft age and had gotten a haircut.

Unless I'm very much mistaken.... which I'm NOT... those Demo-rats who are going along in order to get along are likely to discover next year that the voters are going to tell them in no uncertain words to HIT the ROAD, Jack, don'tcha come back, no more, NO MORE!

[dnalexander]

What happens with the economy will be his Waterloo. If it turns out good it won't matter if it was done through, socialism, democracy, or dictatorship. It will determine if he is here for one term or two. Health care overhaul is a close second and may be the straw that breaks the camels back. No matter what in the grand scheme the Congress deserves the most blame.

David

[Anmar]

It's a sad state of affairs when any group wants to"bring down" the President of our country, I don't care who it is.

especially in a time of war, and when we're under constant threat of attack from terrorists!! right?  In fact, according to many conservatives about 4-5 years ago, it's downright unpatriotic. hmmm

[Warph]

It's a sad state of affairs when any group wants to"bring down" the President of our country, I don't care who it is.

Explain "group" please.  I'm assuming you must mean the Republicans?

[Catwoman]

I'm listening to O giving his health care package...He is really smooth.  However, I have noticed that, once again, he didn't give the first question to that old female reporter that was always given the first question, for decades, under many different adminstrations.  Wonder what she did to hack O off to the point where he totally ignores her?  Maybe she asked too honest a question and is now blackballed.  It is interesting to watch how orchestrated/choreographed these press conferences are...Andrew Lloyd Webber couldn't do a better production.  I waited to hear some specifics on the health care legislation...And I'm still waiting.