Exactly. They live in their own bubble in DC Lala Land. It's difficult for them to fathom that people will and can make decisions for themselves based either on principle and/or how it affects their bottom lines.
It should have been obvious to them that the law was unpopular when they couldn't get even one measly GOP vote for it. They were arrogantly convinced that they could sell people on how great UCA was and that once that happened, people would turn on the GOP for not supporting it. Terrible and very costly assumption.
There were proposals that could have been adopted on a bipartisan basis to improve health care and decrease the numbers of uninsured. But the Rats didn't want to compromise. They had the numbers to slam through what they wanted. Damn the GOP.
They are reaping the whirlwind and their decision will go down as one of the greatest political calculations in our nation's history, IMO.
greatest political miscalculations