#1: Obamacare
The only thing more politically toxic about the Affordable Care Act than its unpopularity is its actual rollout.
From conception, through passage by blatant corruption, to the historically abysmal Healthcare.gov launch, Democrats should, by any rational standard, be running for their political lives from Obamacare with Republicans on their heels—but they aren’t. This isn’t to say the Democrats aren’t intimidated by Obamacare, as evidenced by the Left’s most common rhetorical defense of “it’s the law of the land, deal with it” as if that’s ever stopped Americans from fighting against public policy. But Obamacare is known commodity for the American people—the bill passed, the people have seen what’s in it, and they’re mad as hell.
Obamacare is an easy target and one Republicans absolutely must not allow to survive the end of the next President’s first term. Killing it will require using the power of the purse to emasculate the law before electing a Republican to ultimately sign it into non-existence in January of 2017.
