This morning on a conference call, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) laid out the stakes the Republicans see in delaying a health care vote past August: "If we're able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him."

Obama knows this. That’s why he has pushed hard for a final vote before the August recess, arguing that delaying until September could slow momentum and risk missing a historic opportunity.

This afternoon, the organized effort to slow down the process began to dig in it's heels. A letter was sent to Senate leadership asking for just such a delay that Jim DeMint describes as Obama's Waterloo. Who asked for the delay?

Of course, the actual messengers were the so-called "moderate" (but completely loyal right-wing Republican) senators from Maine, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins. The same pair of "moderate" (loyal right-wing Republican) Senators who have been heavily courted by Obama all year, hilariously, as if they would ever help a Democrat.

And unsurprisingly, the two senators got a bunch of stupid right-wing Democrats to join them manning Jim DeMint's Republican roadblock.

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), a right-wing Democrat who apparently hates that the country elected a Democratic President and is trying to sabotage him called in some of his fellow Democratic clowns. I can picture Nelson asking in the cloakroom “who wants break a popular Democratic President” and unsurprisingly a number of Democratic Senators' hands shot up.

Joining "effectively President" Nelson is the right-wing Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, a corporate shill from the conservative corporate-owned state of Louisiana. She believes that her political survival depends on opposing the progress America voted for, thus leaving her to battle for reelection against the state's Republican party without any Democratic voter support [which she just pissed away]. Stupid lady.

Also at the GOP roadblock is Ron Wyden, a bitter Democrat from Oregon who has a big sad because his amendment from the Bush era wasn't included in the plan. It wasn't included, of course, because it's politically idiotic to do what the Wyden/Bennett idea does: destroying the employer-based health care system, removing the public health insurance option, ergo not holding down costs, plus benefit plans actually reduce over time... this poor guy's plan would have garnered no votes and killed health reform immediately. He's sad of it, and he's apparently now holding a pitchfork that Sen. Coburn (R-OK) just handed him. Blinking, dazed, he's wondering if this is what he's supposed to be doing. And exactly where this pitchfork came from. And if it's really intended for him to use. And on who? But it's too late, Wyden has just lined up with the forces defending the Status Quo. Game, set, match.

Next to him is a man not at all confused about his purpose -- the scum of the Earth, the biggest Prima donna saboteur since Tanya Harding, the completely worthless asshole, Joe Lieberman. President Lieberman is beaming. He has signed on board with this letter, of course, because after all, his actual profession is opposing Democrats. No matter the cause. No matter the manner. He is a retardant.

So when this roadblock is successful; when Health Care reform doesn't happen, when autumn comes and the TV is literally nothing but ads blaming Obama for everything, and he has nothing to say for himself except that he trusted that the United States Senate would hash out a plan, and he coos his disappointment at the lack of progress, disappointment speeches which will help no one.. and his approval rating dives under 50%, never to return, and he fails to win reelection, and is Carter Redux, I will remember who signed this letter. Will you?