“If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
Why does Jim DeMinst want to "break" or destroy President Obama? I find the quote by DeMint bizarre.
Here is more from the Christian Science Monitor article:
...Both Monday and Tuesday, Obama has riffed on DeMint’s comments, turning the debate into an argument about “opponents of reform.”
On Monday, Obama said, “This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. This is about a healthcare system that is breaking America’s families, breaking America’s businesses, and breaking America’s economy.”
On Tuesday, he kept going: “I know that there are those in this town who openly declare their intention to block reform. It’s a familiar Washington script that we’ve seen many times before. These opponents of reform would rather score political points than offer relief to Americans who’ve seen premiums double and costs grow three times faster than wages.”
According to an article in Salon from 2004, DeMint had some tax problems in the past. The article describes DeMint as being against a federal minimum wage and for privatizing Social Security. If the American worker doesn't have the protection of a federal minimum wage, that is horrible. DeMint's support of privatizing Social Security would have put senior citizens in the streets if Bush's proposals would have passed with what we know about the failures of the stock market. In my humble opinion, that makes DeMint out of the mainstream and into the extreme, extreme right. DeMint is a dangerous man. Is he really working for the people in his state or for something else?
