Quote Originally Posted by Thondalar View Post
It could have been, but it wasn't. If all it was was an individual mandate on catastrophic coverage it would have passed with probably 0 nays.
Given as the Republican Party made their course of action "Make Obama a one term President!" before his term even started and was rooting for him to fail that'd be a mighty hard sell. Just watching the Lucy and Charlie Brown act that happened where Obama would give a concession and then Republicans (Particularly Olympia Snowe) would say no was kind of pathetic. He really believed in the same bullshit you do.