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@rus - the quid pro quo crowd exists for every politician, but that desire is not indicative of a political spectrum, or ideology, and not why support noticeably tailed off on the left. That downward slope can be immediately traced to the coddling of the banking industry and then the seemingly endless giving away of the store for virtually nothing in political return over the health care debate. It was the left's coming back home that allowed healthcare to get passed, so if they're people disappointed that their gas tanks aren't full, my guess is it's independents who thought they were a post-partisan savior.
But, despite the right's drumbeat of negativity, I fully expect the polling numbers to go up on the bill pretty steadily over time, if for no other reason than all on opponents minus the Tea Partiers are jumping on board to get it implemented easily.
Insurance gets on board health reform bill
See, it's now in every major player's interest, save the Republicans, to have the bill be a success, if for no other reason than it's obviously self-serving financially and politically. If you think the Republicans can keep the animosity to the bill up by themselves without the corporate heavyweights backing them, you're seriously underestimating the extent to which corporate money played a role in dragging this out. My read on it is once the swamp is drained, the only people left in it will be the Tea Partiers and if they're entirely brain-dead politically, Repub leadership.
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