I think whether this health care debacle really damages the Republicans in Congress and the president depends if they can get a good tax bill passed without a civil war within the party. If they get back on track, then this most recent failure will fade in memory. If this was the start of the new normal and they prove incapable of accomplishing anything together, then they may be handing the country back to the leftists on a silver platter before long.
“If this was the start of the new normal and they prove incapable of accomplishing anything together, then they may be handing the country back to the leftists on a silver platter before long”
This is the precise function of the GOP and the only thing that they ever achieve.
They mind the shop while the Demonrats are in disfavor just long enough to piss off everyone enough by not doing anything that they give the country back to the Demonrats.