The trouble with the GOP approach to ObamaCare

It's a year out from the next election.  So there's plenty of time for the Democrats to do damage control.

If you play it for politics the way the GOP is doing now, you won't win.  The Democrats can beat you at that game.

The GOP should have kept to the plan to defund Obamacare.  Then they may have succeeded in that strategy because that put them in a real game in which they had a real chance to win.  Since they decided not to do that, they probably won't succeed because they will get beat at a game that the Democrats play better than they do---after all, they own the bully pulpit.  Besides, the Democrats have time to adjust to the political realities that exist now.  Polls can be managed now.  An election can't be managed until it is time for it to happen.  Citing the polls as a way to power is a futile move because they aced themselves out of the power to win the game.

Besides, it's a power that they've already got.  The excuse for doing nothing is that they need more power.  That's just an excuse for their failure.  The Constitution enpowers the House to withhold funds if it collectively chooses to do so.  The House was well within its constitutional authority to defund ObamaCare.  Now, after ceding that authority to Obama, Obama is abusing it.  He just changed the ObamaCare law, so as to relieve pressure upon his party, in which he doesn't have the Constitutional authority to do.  The GOP will do nothing in response.  They will recycle the same old excuse that they need more power to do anything about this, which is false.  As I have mentioned, they have that power already.  They can defund ObamaCare.

So, Obama and the Democrats will do damage control and the GOP will make excuses and do nothing.  The result may as well have been the same as the Democrats being in charge.  People will begin to wonder what good the GOP actually is, and decide not to go to the polls.  What point would there be if you give the GOP the power, and they refuse to use it?  They are demoralizing the people that they need for success.  They are going to fail.

Update:

We know it will fail because that is what Romney did.  He sat on what he believed was a lead.  He played "prevent defense", by not trying to win because he feared that it would damage his phony lead in the polls.

Romney went "bean bag" and lost the election.  The bean bag route is a loser.  We have already seen that.