White House Plans to Use DeMint’s “Waterloo” Quote to Rally the Troops – Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said, as Ben Smith at Politico reported, “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”

Orszag: Republicans Trying To Kill Health Care Reform Through Delay – “There are those that are advocating delay just as a desperation move to try and kill this.”

Subprime Brokers Resurface as Dubious Loan Fixers – FedMod is but one example of how many of the same people who dispensed risky mortgages during the real estate bubble have reconstituted themselves into a new industry focused on selling loan modifications.

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The organization, started during the 2008 election, launched a new web page that officials are describing as a “health-care story bank.” The site, officially titled “Health Care Stories for America,” allows OFA’s 13-million member list — as well as countless others — to share and find tales of individual health care struggles. Visitors can search for the stories by geography (using an online map), amplify the ones they find compelling through a voting mechanism, and describe experiences of their own. The goal, according to the site, is to illuminate a “common thread in crisis that affects us all.”

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Now Manuel Miranda, is leading the conservative opposition to Judge Sotomayor and at a Heritage Foundation luncheon, Miranda said this:

“Hispanic polls, Hispanic surveys, indicate that Hispanics think just like everyone else. We’re not like African-Americans. We think just like everybody else. When I was on the leader’s staff, someone called me once and asked me: ‘What’s Senator Frist’s Hispanic agenda?’ I said, ‘low taxes, better education, more jobs … what are you talking about?’ And that’s how Hispanics are. This is an opportunity to educate them on all of our issues and they will resonate in the way that they resonate with everyone else.”

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