Not every Republican was always against "Obamacare"...

There was actual talk of a compromise before the Tea Party, and their townhalls, persuaded the Republicans that there was a lot of political hay to be harvested from "health care reform". Americans are led to believe that all Republicans were against Obamacare from day one. It isn't true.

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As reported by the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, “The Gang of Six Appears to be Dead,” and the overall death of ObamaCare cannot be far behind.

If one recalls, the Gang of Six was the posse that had strolled through the dusty streets of the District of Columbia, promising a so-called “bipartisan” plan on health care. It was one of those grand compromises that feels just like a knife in the backs of the American people. But now the Gang has turned in their spurs—and the members have returned to their formative partisan camps.

The Gang had included Senators Max Baucus (D-MT), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Kent Conrad (D-ND), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Mike Enzi (R-WY). Said the Baucus Kid on Monday, “I talked to them, and they all want to do health care reform. But the sad part is a lot politics have crept in. They are being told by the Republican Party not to participate.”

But really, there’s a lot more to it than that. The lack of compromise in the Senate in particular is the end result of an overall public backlash to Barack Obama’s government-run health care scheme—and the “politics that crept in was the grassroots variety in total opposition to the Administration’s plans for no less than a complete takeover of the nation’s entire health system.

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http://granitegrok.com/blog/2009/09/gang_of_six_obamacare_doa