Lets assume for argument's sake that your assertions are not only correct, but also forgiving. Let’s assume that the GOP has absolutely no ideas of their own on health care. Not one single solitary one. Let’s assume that they are simply doing whatever they can to stop healthcare reform completely.

How does any of that justify passing what is widely regarded as a bad bill, full of buy-offs, accounting tricks, and massive new entitlements that even the Democrat's most rosy projections said would fall off the ledge into the massive ocean of unfunded liabilities we've already got after about 10 years?

And, in that respect, aren't the Republicans more accurately representing the wishes of the people by just saying "no"? People certainly want health care reform, but I've never witnessed such an outpouring of dissatisfaction with a particular piece of legislation in my life.