OK, what was attached to the bill that made it unacceptable? Hidden pork, some kind of freedom-killing new regulatory thing, some additional abuse of tax dollars? It happens all the time.
The 9/11 health bill was just like the Hurricane Sandy relief legislation, larded with pork spending on things quite remote (substantively and geographically) to the title of the bill. That is an easy concept for voters to understand.
Thanks, Wally. I thought it must be that kind of thing.