THEY HAVE TO DESTROY HIS PRESIDENCY IN ORDER TO SAVE IT:

Dems Start To Push Back Hard To Prevent A 'Waterloo' (Anna Edney with Kasie Hunt and Peter Cohn, July 22, 2009, CongressDaily)

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.' "

If the Blue Dogs manage to get the UR out of the way of the economic rebound--by killing health care reform and cap-n-trade--they may still lose their seats but the President will more likely be re-elected.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 22, 2009 9:24 AM