text: Revisionist.  It is well recorded how Republicans were courted and invited to help write ACA, they chose to be the party of "no" and to not participate.  The RNC in particular let it be known that if any member did help then the RNC might be supporting their challenger in the next primary.  They knew that trying to fix the ailing health care was really hard and they wanted to be able to stand on the sidelines and point fingers at any failures in order to gain seats in the following elections.  They did that previously in the first 2 years of Bill Clinton's administration and it worked, so they figured they would do it again.  But Obama had enough votes to pass ACA.
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  Way too many Republican Senators and Representatives were voted in by their constituents to be obstructionists, so surprise surprise that those same people have no idea how to get anything done now that they are in charge.