This would mean something if the republicans where doing something other than trying to stop health care.
There's little else they can do. It'd be not just politically stupid, but logically stupid, to try anything other than stopping this at the moment.
To stop this from happening, and thus please and properly represent their constituents they only need to keep their own party in check with the votes and sway a few democrats
To actually get their version of what they want past they would need to not only keep all in their own party in check but gain enough democratic support that it would bypass a potential fillibuster and veto.
One only needs to get a handful of people, the other needs a huge amount.
LOGICALLY, the more intelligent thing to do to properly represent the people that voted them into power would be to attempt to stop this thing that shows no sign of removing the one thing their constituents desperately do not want under any circumstances....further government control over distributing health care.
The #1 thing republican voters do not want right now is a public option or further government control directly of insurance/health care. They'd be doing their voters a disservice to go for it. That's the biggest issue. I've not heard Republicans say we refuse to compromise on anything and everything that deals with health care reform....just that simply they're not going to vote for something that has a form of expanding government ran health care.
Where are republicans saying what they would vote for?
There's been multiple bills put forth by Republicans, but as described above, they're fruitless and useless in the make up of the congress at the moment. We will never get to a legitimate discussion of what they would vote for because they've made it clear, they're not going to vote for anything that has this increased amount of government control over the distribution health care and Democrats, by and large, have made it pretty clear that its unlikely that they will have enough votes on their side to push any plan that doesn't have at the very least a public option.
So BOTH sides are playing politics, sticking their heels in the ground, and saying "we're not budging on this point" and thus there is no talk about what people would vote for because its fruitless until such a time you get past the big giant road block...which doesn't appear likely from either side.
Where are republicans saying what they do want? Without that, then yes, republicans are, in action, doing nothing more than attempting to stop health care reform.
Nope, that means by their actions they refuse to go forward with any kind of reform that has a public option or greater form of government ran health care. You don't get to wave a magic wand and make it mean more than it means because you can't come up with a legitimate quote from Demint, let alone proof that a majority of republicans, that shows he/they're attempting to do or want as you claim....IE no health care reform at all, in any way.
