Former Bush speechwriter tells GOP: Democrats’ passage of health care is actually ‘our’ Waterloo.
From Think Progress
“Last summer, during a conference call with conservative activists, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) said that if the Republican Party was able to defeat Democratic efforts to pass a comprehensive health care bill, it would “break” President Obama and be “his Waterloo.” Last night, former Bush speechwriter David Frum posted a note on his website addressing his fellow conservatives on the consequences of the Democrats successfully passing a health care bill. He castigated them for refusing to deal with Democrats throughout the process — especially when the final health care bill incorporated many ideas from the Republican Party — and said that a “huge part of the blame for [yesterday's] disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.” He concludes that “it’s Waterloo all right: ours”:
A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves. At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994. [...]
This time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none. [...]
So today’s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it’s mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it’s Waterloo all right: ours. “
This is not a defeat for free market economics. There is no such thing in the health care industry. This bill will demand much more in the way of products and actually boost manufacturing of medical equipment and even surgery products. More supply required from the corrupt pill manufactures. Why arnt the republicans happy about that? Isn’t that free market stuff? Doesn’t that give the corporations more chance for corruption in the free market that the republicans live on?
I wish we had 3 partys so we could get rid of the republican party of hypocrisy
David Frum also says that Rush Limbaugh wants the republicans to fail.
And what will their actions be when that happens. How long can you hold that many people down by just giving them a little more each time they want something? When will China understand that a free people give more than an enslaved people? Slavery comes in many forms and in many degrees. In another 20 years if the government stays the same, what will the size of the government be if they are required to constantly monitor and manage the thoughts of their people?