Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who famously declared last year that the health care debate could be President Obama’s “Waterloo,” and that beating Obama on the issue would “break him,” is taking some credit for the Republican victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, The Hill reports.
“I’m not looking for vindication but I do believe that was a call to arms early in this race,” DeMint said. “I was one of the first who was willing to take the president on directly on an agenda that I thought was out of control. So I certainly don’t regret saying it.”
DeMint made it clear that he doesn’t want to break Obama personally. “I wanted to break his momentum,” DeMint explained. And he also had a warning for the Democrats: “If the president and the Democrats don’t get the message from Massachusetts, it will be their Waterloo.”
