SEIU’s Andy Stern: ‘It Will be Obama’s Waterloo’ if Senate Can’t Finish Health Care
EmailABC News' Rick Klein reports: It seems the SEIU's Andy Stern and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.., have something in common.
Asked about the 2010 landscape today on ABCNews.com's "Top Line,"Stern told us that if the Senate can't finish work on a health care bill, "it will be Obama's Waterloo."
"I think the real issue here is people vote about issues, and people are enormously frustrated,"Stern told us. "It's taken us a year; we don't have a health care bill, we're missing all kinds of other deadlines. I think the Senate, if it does not find a way to get some things done here, are going to disappoint people.”
"People had huge hopes and expectations,"he continued. "The president laid out a broad agenda, and the Senate does not seem able to keep up with him. And the Republicans are doing everything they can to trip him up. America's at a pretty critical moment, and the Senate better act, or it will be Obama's Waterloo.”
DeMint was coming at the issue from the opposite direction when he said of the health care bill, in July: "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."
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Nonsense. The liberals who were after the serving on a silver platter, will still vote for Obama.
On the other hand, all those who saw nothing but waste of valuable time and money, likely will not.
Waterloo……it is NOT.
Jobs…..will be the Waterloo!
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | December 4, 2009, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
And you don’t think that the majority of voters aren’t smart enough to know who to blame if health care reform fails? Demint and his ilk of obstructionisits are playing with fire if they think they can pull this one off. They are playing an extremely dangerous game with a President who is far smarter than them. Besides their ridiculous ideaology has blinded them to the realities that face the majority of us.
Posted by: CND FOX | December 4, 2009, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm
Maybe you can get your trained monkey Stephanopoulos to make some smug comment about how the populace is silly to be outraged by corruption.
Posted by: J.R. | December 4, 2009, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
Mr. Stern needs to focus his attention on Sen. Reid and and the four Dem. caucus members who are blocking the tracks. Actually, we just need to “clean house” in the entire U.S. Senate-a place where any idea-good or bad-goes to die!
Posted by: B. Bear | December 4, 2009, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm
Andy Stern is either lying or incredibly naive (either way, it doesn’t matter) when he states that it will not be socialized medicine. Any fool with a calculator can figure out that, if employers currently pay 15 to 17% toward health care and the government comes out with a ‘public option’ that is 8%, workers will be dumped onto the gov’t plan.
For those of you that support it, don’t be shy: Call a spade a spade. A public option will result in socialized medicine in three to five years (max).
Moreover, within another couple years after that, you’ll see the eight percent become 10, then 12, etc.
“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.” – Ayn Rand
Posted by: Dienekes | December 4, 2009, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm
First of all the vast majority of Americans have some form of health care coverage and the rest have access to emergency services so no one will be denied emergency services even illegal aliens. The truth of the matter is in the bill itself. The Democrats tried to ram the bill through with no time for anyone to read it. Why the rush? It’s because they didn’t want anyone to know what was really in it. Politicians in general and liberals in particular want to control every aspect of peoples lives. Take for example “climate change”,renamed because “global warming” is now changing to global cooling. The outrage from the left is not that the climate change people have been shown to be manipulating the data and outright lying, remember when the guy from NASA got caught claiming last years temps from October were higher than normal and it turned out he was using temperatures from SEPTEMBER? The outrage from people like Boxer was that the truth came out and another lie from the left was exposed. Obama said during the campaign that America was the greatest country on earth and he was going to change it. He is by design trying to destroy the country with health care reform, blocking all forms of energy development that is not “green”, taxing the job creators out of business, turning the soverinty of our country over to the UN and cutting our defense. We cannot survive as a nation with these people running the nation into the ground.
Posted by: frank3108 | December 6, 2009, 11:38 am 11:38 am
Andy plays “Iago” to Barack’s “Othello”.
A true tragedy in the epic sense. A
tragedy for us out here in flyover
country.
Posted by: grizzlybare | December 6, 2009, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm