If you think about it, the Republicans have lost every maneuver on Obamacare they tried. ACA initially passed Congress when they were sure they could stop it with a filibuster they didn't wind up having enough votes to initiate. Then, in the 2010 elections, they managed to take the House, but not the Senate, and to really have any leverage over stalling implementation they really, really needed to win the Senate. Then they fell back on the conservative controlled US Supreme Court to declare Obamacare unconstitutional, and that didn't happen. Then the Republicans pulled out all the stops to defeat Obama in the 2012 election and win back the Senate ... giving them the chance to repeal the program outright before its complete roll out in 2014 ... and failed at that too, in both cases.
So now, the reality for the Republicans is this, Obamacare will be implemented, and if the GOP takes back the Senate, retains the House, and wins the White House in 2016, they will be in the position to take benefits away from Americans across the political spectrum, just in time to pay for it in the 2018 midterms and 2020 President election cycles.
This, my friends, is what you call losing ugly.
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