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Despite the apparent downsides, this bill is the best thing for the Republicans

and the reason is tonight's word.

Napoleon Blonapart. Now, some viewers may be ignorant of European history.

Well, back in 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Belgian town of Waterloo and he

was sent into exile on the island St Helena. That's how they punished dictators

in Europe. They sent them to an island with a limited wine list. The point is this

tyrant was destroyed and back in July, my senator, South Carolina's Jim

Cremdament, made this bold prediction. If we're able to stop Obama on this, it

will be his waterloo. Yes, except no. You see, Obama passed the bill, which

some say makes healthcare actually the Republican Waterloo. Like former Bush

speechwriter David Frum, who wrote on his blog, conservatives and Republicans

today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. We

followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement and they let

us to abject an irreversible defeat. But Frum, who will be my guest this

Thursday, is jumping to conclusions about this. Jim Dement knows this crushing

defeat could be a glorious victory. You said that this was going to be Barack

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