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JOSH KRAUSHAAR
Even though he's only been a Democratic senator less than a year, party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) sounded much like a partisan Democrat Sunday, blaming Republicans for not offering any constructive solutions for health care reform.
"The process was very bad, but the process was really caused by large measure by the refusal of Republicans to deal [with health care] in any way," Specter said on "Fox News Sunday." "Sen. [Jim] DeMint is author of famous statement that this is going to be President Obama's Waterloo. That this ought to be used to break the president."
"That before the ink was dry on the oath of office - and I know this because I was in the caucus," Specter said. " The Republicans were already plotting ways to beat President Obama in 2012."
DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina who appeared alongside Specter, said his comment wasn't political, but was his attempt to stop what he viewed as legislation that would increase government's role in the health care sector.
"I never wanted to break the president, we just wanted to break his momentum as he took over more and more of our economy and creating more and more of our debt," DeMint said. "The reason the Republicans didn't have any ideas in the bill is because the Democrats didn't allow it. There was nothing they would consider other than a government takeover of health care."
