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On July 17, Senator deMint spoke candidly about how he sees the political stakes. And this is what he said:
� ���"If we're able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.� �� �
I'll confess: it's hard to know what to say to that. Perhaps it would be best, initially, to try to laugh it off. So I'll borrow from that great musical Gigi, where Leslie Caron sings:
This is my Waterloo, whispers my heart;
Pray I'll be Wellington, not Bonaparte.
But seriously, Jim, this is not about me losing like Napoleon at Waterloo, as you are hoping. It's not about winning or losing at all.
For me it's a matter of keeping a promise� ��"of keeping faith with the America people� ��"and it's about compassion. And if you and those with you succeed in thwarting reform, it is the hopes and prayers of millions of Americans without affordable health care that will be broken. I will be profoundly disappointed, but not broken.
Time to Move Ahead:
As most of you sitting here this evening know, I strongly encouraged the leaders of the relevant Congressional committees to do all they could to hammer out a bipartisan bill, in order to seek a win-win solution for which both sides of the aisle could proudly claim credit.
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