1) Just because a congressman represented what his region wanted and is against another persons belief (in this case liberal), this does not make him a problem. He was doing his job that he was elected for. That is how politics work. Someone is elected to be the voice of a larger group of people, even if it is a horrible stance. Sometimes, what's right for the country isn't what the people desire most, and sometimes, that means voting against what the constituents think they want.
2) Government in and of itself is bad, corrupt, broken. Some republicans voted No on the Bill last night, yet afterwards on comment expressed they hope the bill passes. This just goes to show most, if not all politicians will stick with party loyalty above their own beliefs and what region they represent wants. How pathetic is that? Government is not inherently good or bad. It's made up of people whom we appoint. Want good government? Elect and appoint good and capable people. As for some voting 'no' but hoping it passes, that's just politics and the nature of having to fight it out in elections. Though, in general, the Republicans were wrong, and frankly, stupid, to use this as a bargaining chip.
3) No one would really have attacked the ACA / Obamacare if, and I mean IF 1 thing was removed from the law. The MANDATORY requirement of insurance. This sole purpose was a reason a lot of people became against it. Forcing people to do something they may not want. I hope a lot of people who are against it still and don't have insurance just doesn't get insurance and refuse to pay the fine. If you want to force the coverage of pre-existing conditions without driving insurance costs through the roof, you have to have everyone in the insurance pool. And sometimes, life happens - you're feeling great, and then you come down with some horrible illness.
4) It did NOTHING, what people really wanted. What people wanted was a similar program in other countries with cheap/free healthcare. This healthcare is NOT cheap. If you have a pre-existing condition, yes you now have the ability to be insured. But from what I could read Premiums are almost 2x that of someone the same w/o said pre-existing condition. There were numerous proposals on the table, but some people kept saying no and screaming about imaginary death panels. And then there were plenty of centrist Democrats that couldn't be brought on-board the single-payer train. So we ended up with this compromised plan, where we can at least have some across the board standards in coverage and an easy way to compare prices from different companies. It's not perfect, but what legislation is ever perfect from the get-go?
5) The only mistake (admitted by plenty of republicans last night) that the republicans made, is that they linked their fight against ACA with the budget. They should have kept that as a separate fight, to control spending. Linking it with the ACA, is like a personal attack to democrats as that is the "achievement" of the current administration, and because of that both sides decided to become 4yr old children until the last second where they had no choice. And what happened? All that was done was the budget talks can was kicked down the road for another few months. It was a stupid way to fight, regardless of what they were fighting for. Using the debt ceiling and a government shutdown to force what they want through is not an appropriate tactic. I know I wouldn't like this tactic if the situation were reversed. If they actually tried to reach across and find a real compromise, they could marginalize the tea-party idiots in the House by using the Democratic block to fill the gap. Sure, everyone doesn't get completely what they want, but everyone gets a little bit of what they want. To blame both sides equally for this fight is misguided. One group clearly has much more culpability than the other. If they want to cut spending, they need to sit down with the Democrats. It might mean higher taxes in some instances, but they could extract spending cuts and reforms to certain areas of current public policy. Cut programs that don't work well, fund ones that are working well, etc...