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by Hector N. Fertig
On July 17th, Senator Jim DeMint (R – South Carolina) famously said about Obamacare:
“If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
Senator DeMint is wrong. Universal Health Care / Coverage will not be the end for Obama in the sense that Waterloo was the end for Napoleon. Tonight’s speech could go a long way to determining if Obamacare will be his Russian Winter, however. Failure on this issue… or worse, a tragic success… could weaken this administration leaving them ineffectual and ultimately doomed in the 2012 election. Tortured analogy aside….
In mid-June 1812, Napoleon crossed the Niemen, beginning his invasion of Russian Poland. In mid-June of this year, Obama gave his “ticking time bomb” speech to the AMA where he emphasized the need for a public option (while simultaneously ruling out tort reform). Next Monday is the 197th anniversary of Napoleon’s disastrous capture of Moscow. By the end of that year, the Grand Armee’ had been expelled from Russian territory. If history repeats itself on health care, we could see a disastrous success by the Democratic party which leads to a large-scale collapse of public support as early as Christmas. Napoleon’s Waterloo was still 3 years away and it’s 197th anniversary will be in the height of election season: June of 2012.
