Saw a quote early on last year: "If HC bill passes, it would mark the end of the Republican Party."

[Change Happens]

Not sure who said that, but watching them the past 24 hours sure looks like they are fighting for their political life as a party.

We will make history today, they will be on the wrong side of history AGAIN!

[rurallib]

1. I think Bill Kristol aas Newtie's chief toady made that statement in 1993

or he said something to that effect.
My recollection (and I am too lazy to do a google search) "If the Democrats pass universal health care, we won't be able to get a republican elected dogcatcher"

[sneezepaddle]

2. There should be a Smilie for.....aaaaahhh(exhale). I am really proud right now.

After watching Louise Slaughter and the megaman known as Jesse Jackson Jr...I just found Democratic Nirvana!

[Warpy]

3. The antics of the Republicans throughout this thing

are what will eventually be the end of that Party. I think a lot of otherwise alienated and apathetic people are getting their eyes opened.

"Vote for the man, not the party," my flabby ass.

[girl gone mad]

4. Only if it had been a good bill..

with a Public Option, at the least.

This bill is certainly no Republican Killer.

[Ikonoklast]

8. Look to Grayson.

The Medicare buy-in is gathering steam.

Maybe some Blue Doge will be emboldened...


One can always hope.

[Lost-in-FL]

5. Shit does not dissipate that easily.

Their stains persist as reminders for a long time.

[Cerridwen]

6. I have a quote like that in an old OP.

December 2, 1993 - Leading conservative operative William Kristol privately circulates a strategy document to Republicans in Congress. Kristol writes that congressional Republicans should work to "kill" -- not amend -- the Clinton plan because it presents a real danger to the Republican future: Its passage will give the Democrats a lock on the crucial middle-class vote and revive the reputation of the party.

From an old PBS program called "The System".

edit for grammar.

[Happyhippychick]

7. Rush said that if John McCain became the nominee it was the end of the 'pubes.

We see how that worked out.

[malaise]

9. Did you watch Frum on GEM$NBC?

He said they predicted Obama's Waterloo and are about to meet theirs.

[Edweird]

10. You think so, huh?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7971607

[Karmadillo]

11. As long as the Dems keep passing Republican legislation and funding Republican wars,

one can argue that there is simply no real need for the Republican party.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100319/OPINION/100319347/1042?Title=DIONNE-GOP-fights-its-own-health-plan

DIONNE: GOP fights its own health plan

Here is the ultimate paradox of the Great Health Care Showdown: Congress will divide along partisan lines to pass a Republican version of health care reform, and Republicans will vote against it.

Yes, Democrats have rallied behind a bill that Republicans — or at least large numbers of them — should love. It is built on a series of principles that Republicans espoused for years.

Republicans have said that they do not want to destroy the private insurance market. This bill not only preserves that market but strengthens it by bringing in millions of new customers. The plan before Congress does not call for a government “takeover” of health care. It provides subsidies so more people can buy private insurance.

Republicans always say they are against “socialized medicine.”

Not only is this bill nothing like a “single-payer” health system along Canadian or British lines, it doesn't even include the “public option” that would have allowed people voluntarily to buy their insurance from the government. The single-payer idea fell by the wayside long ago, and supporters of the public option — sadly, from my point of view — lost out last December.

more...

[zbdent]

12. One can dream ...

the final nail in the Repugniconvict party should have been Nixon ... but then, the Ayatollah Khomeini teamed up with George H.W. "Former CIA Director" Bush to make the U.S. citizens pee their collective pants, and ushered in the destruction of the United States, economically ...

Remember, with the media fully behind the "God and America loving" Republicans, the Democratic party was declared dead (but still moving) in November 2002. Only after running out of the stockpiled supply of turd polish they'd been using on the George W. Bush policy, trying to polish it to keep the American people from realizing what a horrendous job Bush's people did in the aftermath of Katrina, did the Democratic party get SOME "liberal bias" in the media.