What will it say about Obama if he pushes for a Government option based partisan line Obamacare and fails?

the administration appears to have two options, one of which would involve the support of a single Republican senator, Olympia Snowe. The other option would involve using a parliamentary tactic to cirvent the usual 60-vote minimum for ending the Senate debate and instead ram through a more limited health-care bill with a bare majority, dispensing with the support of conservative Democrats or any of the Republicans. Health-care reform's feeble element of bipartisanship so far -- closed-door negotiations by the "Gang of Six" senators from rural states -- has nearly come to a slammed-finger ending in the town-hall rage of late summer.