Governors on ACA: Ideologues vs. pragmatists

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/governors-on-aca-ideologues-vs-pragmatists-87879.html?hp=t2_3

The next stage of Obamacare is shaping up into a fight between two camps of Republican governors sure to duke it out in the 2016 presidential primary — ideologues versus pragmatists.

The ideological purists are big-name Southern governors — like Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Bob McDonnell and Rick Perry — who have all said “hell no” to major pieces of the law, even turning down free federal cash to expand Medicaid in their states.

The more pragmatic governors are rising Republican stars in the rest of the country — like Chris Christie, John Kasich and Susana Martinez — who’ve embraced pieces of the law or left the door open to doing so if there seems to be a political upside in their state.

And on Wednesday, they won a big convert to their side: Florida's Rick Scott, the governor of the state that launched the lawsuit against Obamacare, announced he’s going to expand Medicaidunder the law — at least for three years

this is not a surprise they have done this with all of Pres. big initiatives first "it's the worse, an abomination, it will bankrupt America.

now that they have served the T-P faction and thrown the red meat reality sets in and they embrace what they knew was a good plan while bashing it.  T-Pers see it as treason within the party, those who will get to enjoy it see it as the Pres. delivered and it's good.

It’s an intra-party struggle that mirrors the same fight that’s engulfed the Republican Party since Election Day, pitting anti-Obama hardliners against those concerned with appealing to a broader swath of voters.

And while it’s a fight sure to simmer below the surface at the annual National Governors Association’s meeting this weekend in Washington — where political attacks are usually reserved for crossing party lines — the rollout of the health care law will continue to be prime testing grounds for the future of the Republican Party in the runup to 2016.

“I could see a scenario where [pragmatists] get attacked from the right,” said Republican strategist Ari Fleischer. “I could also see a scenario where they can carve out a position that they’ll always do what’s fiscally responsible for their state. It’s just impossible to war game it at this point.”

but will "we" see enough of them taking the TEA antidote and begin to do what they have been paid to do, not what they collected a check and haven't done?