Yup, do it with out them, and ram that public option home too. Who cares about the popular support of the people. Go ahead and commit Political Jihad. Good luck though, sounds like the D's are spending a fair bit of time fighting each other right now.

Perhaps the GOP sees how upset people are about Obama's health care reform (not to mention cap and trade) ideas and they don't want to be associated with it. Maybe the GOP sees that enough people are pissed about this and they want to be able to say "it wasn't us" when incumbents get voted out of office because families can't afford their electric bill any more, or because they are paying ALOT more in taxes to provide health insurance to illegals.

I'm just sayin...