"THE BATTLE TO KILL, TO DEFUND AND TO DELAY THE OBAMACARE HAS NOW DAMAGED THE GOP BRAND"

The Obamacare, which is the official health care law of the land in America today has now survived all its political onslaughts and adversaries from the GOP to date. This affordable health care law started its journey when it was officially passed by the majority votes from the two houses of senate and representatives of the US Congress. This Obamacare officially became the health care law of America when President Barack Obama signed it into law after its passage in 2010 by the US Congress. This Obamacare was then challenged by the 26 GOP controlled states at the Supreme Court of America. The majority of the justices of that apex court upheld Obamacare as the new health care law of America. The GOP-led Tea Party House members attempted on their own to revoke this Obamacare 42 times and unsuccessfully. The revocation of the Obamacare was the main political issue in the 2012 presidential election in America that the GOP as a political party and its presidential candidate Mitt Romney put before the American voters. The GOP lost that election when the American voters rejected the revocation of the Obamacare and reelected President Barack Obama for a second term in the White House. 

The Tea Party GOP House members then decided to attach the defunding, the delaying and the removal of the important components of the Obamacare as the conditions that must be met before the federal government debt ceiling will be raised and the federal budget will be passed into law. The refusal of the Democratic House and Senate members resulted in the shutting down of the federal government of America for 16 days. The American government lost over $24 billion in revenues and 3% of its annual GDP due to this shutdown. The GOP came out of this political battle without getting any of their demands on Obamacare. The Obamacare survived again as the official health care law of America. The GOP came out of this political war against Obamacare heavily battered, bruised and with the lowest public opinion rating of 24% in the 150 years plus of this political party in America. 

The most important questions that confront the GOP before the 2014 midterm elections and the presidential elections of 2016 are the following:(i). Will the GOP be ready to finally give up on the Obamacare? (ii). Will the GOP start another political battle on the same Obamacare in the next few months when the federal government of America will be due again for another debt ceiling to be raised? (iii). Will the GOP continue to use the same political strategy of threatening to shutdown the federal government as their political weapon of war against the defunding or the delaying of the Obamacare? (iv). Will the GOP-led Tea Party House members face a political backlash from the American voters from their different constituencies in the 2014 midterm elections? (v). Will the GOP succeed in controlling the House of Representatives again as a majority political party after the 2014 midterm elections? (vi). Will the GOP win the White House in 2016 based on their present position on the Obamacare? (vii). Which one of those two voices will be fully in charge of this political party between the moderate conservatives and the Tea Party ideologues from now on and until 2016 presidential elections?