So was the far more liberal Mass. You'd think DC would be listening to their constituents.
The Dems have put themselves (with no help from the GOP), into a rather horrible corner. Pass this hugely unpopular, fiscally wreckless piece of "reform" legislation, via extraconstitutional parliamentary trickery, and be completely hosed in the 2010 AND 2012 elections, losing all power
or
actually pay attention to their consitutents, don't vote for it, but have egg on theirs and especially Obama's face, as his 1 major signature item, with once super majorities in house & senate, that could pass anything they wanted, and with all the political capital Obama has spent on this issue, goes by the way side......and hyperbolically angering their rabid libera base to no end, in the process