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.
morning radio address, Sen. John McCain said his administration would give every family a $5,000 tax credit to buy their own health insurance or keep their current plan. “And we will open up the national health care market to expand choices and improve quality,” he said. Obama, speaking at a rally in Newport News, Virginia, said it’s not that McCain “doesn’t care” about what people are going through, “I just think he doesn’t know.” “That’s the only reason I can think of that he’d propose a health care plan that is so radical, so out of touch with what you’re facing and so out of line with our basic values.”