Can #ObamaCare Fiasco Save the GOP?

From Jonathan Tobin, at Commentary:

With each passing day since the president’s signature health care legislation was launched it’s now obvious that the administration has lost control of the story. At first it was just a matter of a dysfunctional website. Then it became one in which the incompetence of the Department of Heath and Human Services was compounded by the arrogance of Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the denials of the White House. But once it became apparent that President Obama had been lying for the last three years when he repeatedly promised that Americans would be able to keep their insurance if they liked it rather than being forced onto the ObamaCare exchanges, a tipping point was reached. That more details are leaking out every day that reinforces the negative impression of ObamaCare is adding to the administration’s problems.

So it’s little surprise that the New York Times led its front page with a story about how Democrats are “feeling anxious” about the future tied to the ObamaCare boondoggle. While some in the party are claiming, as Senator Chuck Schumer did, that the anger at the Tea Party over the shutdown will be more of a “long-term” liability for the GOP, most Democrats know better. The ObamaCare disaster not only changed the political narrative that worked so well for them. It goes straight to the heart of an underlying liberal weakness: the belief that big government is not only incompetent but also a threat to the wellbeing and the pocketbooks of ordinary Americans.

Well, the rollout debacle's not going to "save" the GOP. It's debatable whether Republicans needing saving. ObamaCare's just the tip of the iceberg of Democrat policy failures. It's just this time Democrats and the Democrat-enabling media can't fool the public with their Orwellian totalitarianism. Republicans need to play their cards right. I expect they'll hold the house next November, but they can't get cocky and they need to offer a popular alternative to the law. Still, it's been a staggering turnaround of fortunes this last few weeks, and it's got the leftists tied up in knots as reality bites down hard.

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