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Now, welcome to the Best Of The Left podcast.

With clips today from Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, The Rachel Maddo Show, Counter-Spin,

All In The Media, This American Life, The Daily Show, and Countdown.

Here is your first quote.

If we are able to stop Obama on this, it'll be his Waterloo.

It will break him.

That was your own senator.

Senator Jim DeMana, South Carolina, he was setting a high-minded and collegial tone

for the increasingly angry debate about what?

Well, I'm going to take a stab in the dark Peter and say that it may have something to do with health care.

Yes, indeed. It was the health reform proposals.

Now, for those who do not follow history, Waterloo is a catchy dance number by Abba.

Perhaps, and we're not sure, in his metaphor, Demint was contrasting the health reform proposal

with the more successful stimulus bill, which was Obama's Dancing Queen.

This week, as the health care debate went forward, things got personal.

For instance, Republican representative Paul Brown of Georgia said the president's plan

is, quote, gone to kill people, unquote.

Obama responded by a showtip everywhere this week from the Today Show to airline safety videos.

He was the guy pointing at the exits.

In a primetime press conference on Wednesday, he assured us all that the plan won't increase

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