The recent comment by Senator Jim Demint [R-SC] was remarkable:
"If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."
President Obama‘s response, as always, on point:
Just the other day, one Republican Senator said, and I’m quoting him now, "if we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Think about that. This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. It is about a health care system that is breaking American families, breaking America’s businesses and breaking America’s economy.
But then there’s the leaked RNC MEMO:
“The Republican National Committee will engage in every activity we can to slow down this mad rush while promoting sensible alternatives that address health care costs and preserve quality.”
It doesn’t seem that this opposition is specifically aimed at health care reform, though Republicans typically take the side of business, and the business-fication of medicine is why medical costs are now so absurd. But that’s another post. This one is about the automatic, unified attempt to "break" Obama.
To me, it feels like an extension of an attitude that pervaded the Bush Administration’s policies – some attempt to fundamentally change the way our country operates in the area of Civil Rights, the Environment, in any kind of Social Services. In the eight years they were in office, they nearly bankrupted the country morally as well as financially – and put us in a foreign policy hole that seems imponderable at this point. Now, they’re preaching that Obama has to be stopped before he destroys the country.
I don’t get it. I don’t see where they think we need to go. I get what they’re fighting against [everything]. But I can’t see what they’re fighting for, unless it’s something like feudalism…
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