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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) stands by his comment that health care will be President Obama's Waterloo, a comment Obama derided in a health care speech yesterday.

"I think he played right into my hands," DeMint told Neil Cavuto on Fox News this afternoon, adding that Obama's frequent appearances over the last several days show a level of desperation. "Any time the president of the United States goes after a freshman senator, he's losing his grip a little bit."

He insisted his comments weren't about politics, but renewed his call to block the president's reform attempts.

"We've gotta stop him. We cannot let him roll over us," DeMint said.

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July 21, 2009 5:30 PM   

Wishful thinking, Senator DeMint. Obama has already accomplished much more than you ever will. Republicans either try to spin their unpopularity and cluelessness as masterful political moves, or simply deny reality.

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July 21, 2009 5:32 PM   

With apologies to Monty Python....

DeMint: Come on then.
Obama: What?
DeMint: Have at you!
Obama: You are indeed brave, Sir DeMinted, but the fight is mine.
DeMint: Oh, had enough, eh?
Obama: Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left.
DeMint: Yes I have.
Obama: Look!
DeMint: Just a flesh wound.
Obama: Look, stop that.
DeMint: Chicken! Chicken!
Obama: Look, I'll have your leg. Right!

Obama cuts off the Sir DeMinted's leg.


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July 22, 2009 3:10 AM    in reply to Hannibal Smith

Love it!

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July 21, 2009 5:42 PM   

One is reminded of Sen. DeMint's assertion a few weeks ago that Arlen Specter's defection was proof that the Republicans were on rise again and Pat Toomey was the voice of the new mainstream. (Leading MSNBC's Rick Sanchez to ask "what the hell are your talking about.")

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001239/

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July 21, 2009 5:52 PM   

Yes, Sen DeMInt, Obama is a raving looney, begging you for mercy, and you've got him right where you want him...


that's some sick stuff, senator DeMint.

please try to keep your private S/M fantasies separate from your political rhetoric.

I understand there is a 'safe' place to reenact them, over at C street.
oops, not as private as it use to be....

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July 21, 2009 5:58 PM   

Oh, no, Brer ReThug! Don't keep making this about Obama and his willingness to address urgent problems quickly!

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July 21, 2009 6:01 PM   

For a long time, the running meme was that the Republicans--let by people like Karl Rove, Frank Luntz, Lee Atwater, Roger Ailes, and the like--were nefarious schemers, making moves that perhaps seemed absurd or crazy on their face, but that were in fact genius.

But with Bush, and Palin, and Sanford, and Ensign, and DeMint, and Steele . . . well, I'm honestly beginning to think that these people aren't scheming. I'm beginning to think that they really are as stupid as they seem. This is, of course, a dangerous and hubristic thing to think, but listening to Steele or Palin or (in this case) DeMint insisting that the sky is covered with polka-dots and the moon is made out of green cheese, well, it's hard to believe anything different.

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July 21, 2009 6:40 PM    in reply to dougom

It takes Will, George Will, the obvious egghead, to keep these moth-brains coalesced around the RNC platform. Check his brain scan though, I'm betting he has a case of the baseball bats like Lee Atwater, Ronald Reagan and Tom (Developmental) DeLay, who got his bats from all the pesticide he huffed.

This is kinda fun. It's nice when a Republican Distinguishes himself. I thought they were all just issuing anti-future press releases from secret, undisclosed locations.

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July 21, 2009 6:02 PM   

I think DeMint has it backwards. Obama has something up his sleeves

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July 21, 2009 6:35 PM   

DeMint was very convenient. If nobody had gotten that soundbite into the noise, our President wouldn't have been able to find the lightning rod to get from where we are to where the RNC is.

I applaud DeMinty-not-Mediciney for volunteering to be a pawn. Douchebag.

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July 21, 2009 6:43 PM   

Yep, DeMint is right, the birthers and the tea baggers are dancing in the streets.

Why am I not surprised DeMint is from South Carolina?

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July 21, 2009 6:53 PM   

I'm guessing they're very small hands. Just sayin'.

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July 21, 2009 7:00 PM   

Maybe you guys should try reading the House or Senate health care bills rather than wasting your time with the same tired, childish attacks on Conservatives. Barry Soetero has already stated that if Congress cannot pass the bill through the legitimate process, he will have his loyal minions Pelosi and Reid bury the scheme in an appropriations bill. That alone should give any reasonable person pause when it comes to their motives.

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July 21, 2009 7:37 PM    in reply to edgycater

Ooh yeah, that's a scary super-secret nefarious plot that the Dems have only talked about openly since, oh, the start of this session of Congress. Imagine -- a measure enacted by majority vote!

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July 21, 2009 7:39 PM    in reply to edgycater

I think it's rich that a person who calls the president "Barry Sotero" is charging the commenters here with being "childish". Also, Obama has clearly stated that he really doesn't want to push this through reconciliation, even though that it's a perfectly legal process. Ever hear of a "bargaining chip"?

I waiting for you to tell us how the House bill outlaws private insurance plans. Go ahead...you know you want to.

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July 21, 2009 7:14 PM   

That sounds like the sort of thing we heard before Bill Clinton's trial by the Senate. The conservatives simply couldn't grasp that the public wasn't on their side, despite an extraordinary media push.

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July 21, 2009 8:05 PM   

Statements like this only prove that republicans are self described "Dumbasses".

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July 21, 2009 8:26 PM   

I'd like to see Michael Steele and DeMint hold a joint press conference.

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July 21, 2009 9:12 PM   

Senator DeMint just released a new video. Definite hit material.

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July 22, 2009 10:15 AM    in reply to The Grand Panjandrum

Yup. Goobers On Parade.

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July 22, 2009 1:22 AM   

Obama was wise enough to downplay his "deadline." This is a negotiation and DeMint did get the President's attention.

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July 22, 2009 2:48 AM   

-Democrats pushing for health care reform got serious jolts last week from critics who warned that their proposed legislation would 'do little to slow spiraling health care costs'. A group of conservative Democrats vowed that they would join Republicans-

Blue Dogs Rake in the Dollars from the Health Care Industry ... The 20 Blue Dogs have taken a combined $6,849,273 from various segments of the health care industry, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics

Thank You !

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May 27, 2010 12:11 PM   

Maybe you guys should try reading the House or Senate health care bills rather than wasting your time with the same tired, childish attacks on Conservatives. Barry Soetero has already stated that if Congress cannot pass the bill through the legitimate process, he will have his loyal minions Pelosi and Reid bury the scheme in an appropriations bill. That alone should give any reasonable person pause when it comes to their motives.

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