Some are already pulling back and saying they don’t want the whole thing repealed as there are “good parts in it.” That won’t win. I hope I am pleasantly surprised in all this, but I will not pin my happiness on those hopes.
And, people are not going to be happy with half measures that leave the odious core, the mandate part, standing. They will insist that this vampire gets the silver bullet.
It may be a technical issue. Full repeal won’t be possible till 2012. In the meantime compromises with handfuls of Dems could result in veto-proof revisions to whatever the GOP doesn’t utterly deny funding to.