Last friday South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim Demint said that if Obama’s healthcare overhaul takeover fails, it could be his Waterloo. Well Obama fired back by saying, among other things, “This isn’t about me”. Well it seems that despite what the president is saying in public, he might be more worried than he is letting on and that this really is, all about him.
A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator’s comparison of the healthcare overhaul to Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth.
Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama’s bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes.
“Let’s just lay everything on the table,” Grassley said. “A Democrat congressman last week told me after a conversation with the president that the president had trouble in the House of Representatives, and it wasn’t going to pass if there weren’t some changes made … and the president says, ‘You’re going to destroy my presidency.’ ”
The White House did not respond to requests for comment.
