Prediction Time: What will happen with Republicans on October 1, 2013
when the health care exchanges open ushering in a new era of access to health care for millions of Americans? They've worked so hard and devoted to so much and (other people's) money to prevent it from ever taking effect but are simply doomed to failure at this point. Nobody but their own rabid psychotic base is going to stand with them if they seriously shut down the government and/or cause a default on our debts over the healthcare law. Nobody. Whatever the polls say about the healthcare law, nobody but a few teabaggers are going to die on this hill with then. No doubt they will continue to make some token attempts to repeal it (hey, they gotta keep their seats, you know) but what's next for them? Once the exchanges take effect and people start signing up and realizing that the Earth hasn't suddenly stopped spinning on its axis, that nobody is coming to haul dear old granny in front of "death panels" and that government is actually here to help you (and that's NOT considered such a scary thing), Republicans are going to be totally deprived of the lifeblood of their electoral lives the past 4 years and they will have to finally accept (but probably won't) that they lost it to President Obama and the Democratic Party. So, what happens when that "bubble" they've been living in for the past 4 years suddenly pops and reality (maybe) finally sinks in? 
Interested in everybody's predictions. It will be a most interesting time to be sure........
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