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You may remember that Senator Jim DeMint took a lot of heat for saying the exact same thing in July of 2009. The comments caused such a stir that the White House tried to spin it into a rallying cry for Obama’s base.

On Friday, on a “Conservatives for Patients Rights” conference call with conservative activists dealing with health care reform, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said, as Ben Smith at Politico reported, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

You should expect to hear that quote this week from the White House as they use it to rally their troops, a White House official tells ABC News.

Officials will say the people being “broken” are the American people going bankrupt paying for health insurance premiums that increase 10 percent every year, the source says, and that those who want to use this issue to break the president are doing nothing but working for insurance companies and insurance executives.

Well it seems someone else agrees with Jim DeMint. That person would be Democrat Strategist James Carville, AKA the Ragin’ Cajun.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday that if President Obama is unable to push a health-care bill through the Congress it will be his Waterloo.

Carville echoed the term used by Republican Sen. Jim Demint, of South Carolina, who last summer made the comparison between the health-care fight and the decisive 1815 battle in modern-day Belgium that broke the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte.

“If the bill loses, it proves Senator DeMint right. It will, I think, by and large, be a lot of the president’s Waterloo, and I think a lot of Democrats realize that,” Carville said, speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Carville said he was not as confident as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, that there will be enough votes in the House to pass a bill.

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Senator Jim DeMint may have touched off a powder keg last week. Speaking of opposition to Obama’s monstrous overhaul of America’s healthcare system he said:

“If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

Obama didn’t like this comment at all and went after DeMint immediately.

“Just the other day, one Republican senator said – and I’m quoting him now – ‘If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him,’ Obama said, quoting DeMint. “Think about that. This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America’s families, breaking America’s businesses, and breaking America’s economy.”

Odd comments from a man who is rapidly losing the confidence of the American people, specifically on the economy.

Furthermore, US News & World Report points out that Obama’s responding attack on DeMint makes him look weak and diminishes his position as president.

“This is probably the reason he has chosen to take on a first-term Republican United States senator in the debate over healthcare. In political terms, it is somewhat remarkable that Obama has lowered himself to address comments by South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, who suggested that the healthcare legislation, if it could be defeated, would be Obama’s “Waterloo.”

“By responding to DeMint, Obama made him his political equal, at least for the time being.”

Even CNN is reporting that members of the President’s own party are “baffled” by his stance on healthcare:

“As the prospects for passing health reform by the time Congress leaves for its August recess look bleaker, Democratic grumbling about President Obama is growing louder. One Democratic senator tells CNN congressional Democrats are “baffled,” and another senior Democratic source tells CNN members of the president’s own party are still “frustrated” that they’re not getting more specific direction from him on health care.”

Another report from National Journal paints a much bleaker picture and has a story from Senator Charles Grassley where he claims a Democrat congressman described an incident with President Obama where the president said of Democrat opposition to the healthcare overhaul, “You’re going to destroy my presidency.”

“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.’ “

“The White House did not respond to requests for comment.”

The final proof of Obama’s desperation was his rallying cry to the nutroots of the blogosphere. He made it clear to his hardcore left wing base that this is war. First, he held a conference call with them where he urged them to attack opponents of his plan.

Then yesterday, he sent out a fear mongering message over Twitter saying “They’re playing politics with our lives. Fight back.”

This sounds like the politics of fear. This sounds like the desperate flailing of a man who is running out of options.

This sounds like Obama’s Waterloo.

Senator Jim DeMint attempts to offer an amendment calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve. He is shut down by the Democrats based on Rule 16, a rule the Democrats have ignored/broken whenever it suited their needs.

This is typical Democrat thinking. Rule 16 applies to thee but not to me…

For more extensive coverage of this story, read Moe Lane’s blog or Ed Morrissey at Hot Air.