Taking the Party of No to new heights, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), yesterday, during a conference call on health care reform:

If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.

This perfectly encapsulates Republican thinking on health care reform; forget that it's an issue of vital importance to the overwhelming majority of Americans, forget that there are millions going without medical care, forget that people are dying because they can't afford to see a doctor ... to Jim DeMint and his ilk, derailing health care reform will hurt the President politically.

And these are the same people that some Democrats are scrambling to placate in the interest of bipartisanship that doesn't exist.