In case you didn't catch it, reusing "Waterloo" was meant to brand US as the same as the R's

[rudy23]

To me this latest comment from the "unnamed senior WH aide" (cough, cough, RAHM, cough) shows that they're out to vilify the "left of the left" when the truth of these healthcare negotiations comes out.

They're going to try and paint the Progressive Caucus as the irrational obstructors, instead of the Blue Dogs. And why wouldn't they---the Blue Dogs are on Rahm's team. He recruited the Blue Dogs, then Obama recruited him. First man hired, in fact. Why would they be on the same side as "the left of the left"?

This, along with Rahm recent declaration of "war" against the GOP is all groundwork for defining their base as the rational "centrist" pragmatists who understand the importance of selling out to insurance companies, and seperating themselves from the Progressives, who only want to undermine healthcare reform for the same reason the Republicans do---to hurt the president politically. To make this bill his "Waterloo."

That's how I read this latest spin. They're trying to paint us as being just as irrational and politically selfish as the gun toters on the right. They think it will work because Obama's that damn smooth (and we're that damn stupid).