This poll shows favorable views of the GOP sinking like a stone. I do think they are to blame here and Boehner is doing a fabulously terrible job of leading them:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ma-calls-GOP-leaders-White-House-meeting.html
Jon Stewart nails it- "Don't fart & point at the dog"-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...blicans_n_4069528.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
In Boehner's own words, they "took a stand" over the ACA, but now Repubs seem to say it's not about the ACA anymore, but about something more nebulous, but cloying, like whatever mileage they can get out of dog farts...