My analysis is that politics is the art of the possible. The desired outcome for Obamacare or the debt ceiling/CR was not possible because the raw political power required to make the desired changes was simply not there.
The Obamacare problem has taken a predicted turn towards failure. The Obama government simply has failed, massively failed, to get it up and working.
The money problems were for ordained....... the ceiling would be lifted. The changes in spending details were ancillary and a direct function of how many votes could be mustered.
In the end of this round, there were just not enough votes, raw political power, to carry the conservative day. Absent winning the Senate in 2014, there may never be.
+1. Bert, dealing reality this morning. Nice job.
ObamaCare has already succeeded in its’ main task....to remove the final barriers to Single Payer.
ObamaCare is merely the transit camp.