I disagree, the whole thing is a distraction from what the 2012 will really be about ... JOBS.
We need to stay focused on that issue, and hand it around Obama’s neck.
Agreed that jobs and the economy will be the real issue but I think this was an opportunity to get so much more. I think Obama would have folded in the end. Not totally. Not “ok, lets repeal health care” level folding. But we could have gotten the BBA to the states along with every thing else, and I think that would have been a much bigger win.