As it was, and given the amount of pork-barrel spending deals needed to pass the bill, public acceptance of the ACA collapsed as more people learned what was in it.
But there does seem to be a growing acceptance even among Lib Dem activists that the bill will become law, and that the party has now done all it can to temper the original proposals.
The outsiders, who paid most of the bill for the election, had been banking on the opposition's acceptance of the results and its willingness to join a coalition with the ex-communist ruling party.