What if approval rating doesnt matter to them now?
They are not unified right now. During the shutdown they were unified by the shutdown, but now they cant be.
Obama is done running for office and he has no choice but to defend Obmacare but he needs to head off Democrat defection votes on anti-Obamacare bills. defections by those up next year
Then ya got 2014. If Obama loses the Senate he can bash the GOP congress for his last two years, but he wont get a single agenda item passed for his whole second term.