Well, I don’t necessarily disagree with your post regarding the two party dynamics, but this is more about who is actually pulling the strings on the left. At least that was the question as I saw it.
That is why my theory is so important. It's Pelosi, Obama and Reid betraying ‘the left’ to get a health reform bill passed. Like Bush sold us out to get no child left behind.
Public plan out ala Obama
Private school vouchers out ala Bush
And both parties were telling their base, this is better than doing nothing, It was better for only the political Parties, not us.
Stimulus was different, they had almost a blank check, so house liberals and three RINOs wrote that bill.