Can someone explain the "waterloo" analogy to the HC bill?

[Taverner]

I caught the David Frum blog, but I still don't get the connection...

[Ian David]

1. Jim DeMint is a huge Abba fan. n/t

[joeybee12]

7. And now it's today's earworm...at least for me...

...I actually like the song...hated ABBA when they were big, but now i like the stuff.

[karynnj]

11. So true - In fact, I think people should play that song at every campaign event

he goes to. It could become his theme song. (If there are any candidates who want him to campaign for them. )

Maybe talented people in the Senate could hum or sing it when he comes near in committee meetings or on the floor.

[Bicoastal]

2. The "loo" is the toilet, which has water in it....

...essentially, Frum is saying the GOP is circling the drain.

[brooklynite]

3. Seriously, Waterloo marked the collapse of Napoleon's expansionist goals...

He invested all his military power in an invasion of Russia, and when it didn't pan out, he lost all his military resources and his Empire collapsed.

[Whisp]

5. and some GOPer said that the HCR bill is going to be Obama's Waterloo.

way back.
I think that's really what all the 'loo thing is about and not toilets or anything.

might be waterloo but Obama wasn't Napoleon - he was Wellington. ;)

[Donnachaidh]

4. DeMint is getting his ass heavily ABBA'd on Facebook

dozens of postings of Abba's Waterloo vid.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Waterloo was Senator DeMint's analogy

Last year, DeMint "promised" that health care reform wouldn't pass and be Obama's Waterloo.

Suddenly, it's DeMint and the GOP who are playing the part of Napoleon.

[barbiegeek]

8. Republicans said stopping HC was Obama's Waterloo

Waterloo was Napoleons defeat.

[Recursion]

9. People with a shallow understanding of military history associate "Waterloo" with Napoleon's downfal

He had already been captured once and sent to exile; he escaped and assembled a halfhearted army. He had really been defeated for a year, but he made one last grandstanding attempt to sustain his legacy.

Still, in today's parlance it basically means any epic defeat that makes a great leader fall, even though that's pretty much exactly not what happened at the actual Waterloo.

[Bert]

10. true

Napoleon had lost a major campaign in Spain, and then his major loss was of course the old "land invasion of Russia" campaign, which didn't work well for Hitler either.

[Vickers]

12. "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton."

Not sure who said it, but I think I picked it up from The Preppy Handbook.

:P