I said similarly

Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post noted what might be happening with Obamacare;  to whit, despite its problems, it is working, and the more it works, the more it will undercut it as a campaign issue for the shutdown Republicans next fall.

The [shutdown] GOP's healthcare crisis

An excerpt from near the end:

"Republicans may even have to take the drastic step of saying what they advocate, rather than harping on what they oppose. Is there a [shutdown] GOP plan to cover those with preexisting conditions? To cover the working poor? Is expanding access to health insurance really such an awful thing?

Sorry, I didn’t catch what you said."

 Whereas, for the Democrats, the shutdown issue and the party that caused it will always stay the same.