Ignores the political facts on the ground. The declared and demonstrated Republican strategy is to reject everything.

In terms of bipartisanship, it really doesn't matter what the Democrats proposed. The Republican position is to make stuff up and scream SOCIALIST. No matter what.

That position cost them a voice at the table and the ability to defend what they used to claim were their values. I don't think that matters to the GOP leadership anymore, it would appear that campaign contributions and claiming the win are all that matter anymore. Representing constituents and ideas is just not that important.

What percentage of those voters will be voting based on the actual content of the bill, and what percentage will be voting based on entirely fictional material that the Republican party made up?

Obama could have gone into a room with the Republicans, said "I give up, you write it yourselves" and not a single Republican would have voted for the result. And they would be, with a single voice, denouncing it as a socialist takeover.

There will be a midterm move to the Republican side. How much of that will be HCR and how much will be the normal midterm slide away from the President will be an interesting question for some of us, for others just evidence that Obama is one each of every bad thing there ever was, and two of some.