Ron Johnson, other Republicans say government shutdown unlikely

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. and the balloon gets a little more deflated

The earliest that they could actually do anything about it- assuming that they have majorities in Congress and the WH- is 2017 but by then people will have adapted and it probably won't even be an issue anymore. Obamacare is or will be the "new normal" here in America. Not perfect yet, of course, but it will make things better than they have been IMHO.

We won. They lost. They need to get over it. We had to deal with them getting all those tax cuts and a "war of choice" in Iraq during (P)resident Bush's reign of error, which we all had to pay for. They now get to help pay for health care coverage for millions of Americans.