“it would have been politically disastrous for them to support it”
If they need to keep Obama’s policies in place to get reelected they are useless.
Not at all. It’s bullish!t to present this as an either/or proposition. They would have been fine with an imperfect bill THAT ACTUALLY SAVED PEOPLE MONEY — which this bill did not. I knew this bill was doomed as soon as the GOP came out and started describing this “three-phase” process to eliminate and replace Obamacare. If people didn’t see tangible results in Phase 1 then the GOP wasn’t going to be around long enough to see the process through anyway.