Obama Pleads With Concerned Moderate Democrat: "You're Going to Destroy My Presidency"

Remember, though: Obama says this isn't about him.

Seriously. It's not. Don't make it about him.

Except if he wants your vote, in which case, he needs you to know: It kinda is about him.

A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator's comparison of the healthcare overhaul to Waterloo might be dangerously close to the truth.

Grassley said he spoke with a Democratic House member last week who shared Obama's bleak reaction during a private meeting to reports that some factions of House Democrats were lining up to stall or even take down the overhaul unless leaders made major changes.

"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.' "

Further analysis from a quartet of Scandanavian vloggers here.

posted by Ace at 10:21 AM

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