Reid: Health Care Reform Will Not Be Obama’s Waterloo

Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 4:14PM
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Sunday that health care reform will not be President Barack Obama’s Waterloo moment.

“Republicans are being destructive,” said Reid. “They want this to be ... President Obama’s Waterloo and it’s not going to be.”

The Majority Leader’s remarks are a reference to a conference call this Summer with Sen. Jim DeMint (D-S.C.), wherein the South Carolinian Republican told reporters “If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo.”

The Battle of Waterloo marked the military defeat of French Emperor Napolean Bonaparte in 1815.

Reid went on to express disappointment with the role Republicans have played during the entirety of the health care reform debate.

“We have not had a single public statement by Republicans that they’ll do anything to help us with the bill, quite to the contrary,” said Reid.

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