A small yet important question about "Obamacare"

[jmowreader]

I am calling it what the Republicans call it because the Republicans factor heavily here:

If "Obamacare" is such an awful, dangerous, unconstitutional, America-destroying piece of legislation that every Republican running for office in America, at every level from president to dogcatcher, has "we are going to repeal "Obamacare" as part of their platform...
then why didn't they kill it in the Senate like they did to the other 600 pieces of the president's legislative program?

[PoliticAverse]

1. Because the Democratic majority in the Senate + 2 independents were the 60 votes required

to avoid a filibuster threat.

The vote: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396