WILL the GOP admit it was wrong?

How could the GOP admit it was wrong about Obamacare?

That would mean giving up their campaign issue, and for many in the Tea Party, their raison d'etre.  Even though they are wrong, they think that Obamacare is one more step toward total government control over every aspect of our lives -- actually, total government control over the parts of our lives they don't want to control, because if it has to do with the education of our kids or our reproductive rights, they want to control that.  As long as the right things are being taught - like the Earth being 6,000 years old -- and not the wrong things -- like the fact that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere is making the world get warmer.

But let's get back to the point at hand.  They're wrong about Obamacare -- and E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post thinks they should admit it.

A key section:

"So let’s say it out loud: The ACA is doing exactly what its supporters said it would do. It is getting health insurance to millions who didn’t have it before. (The Los Angeles Times pegged the number at 9.5 million at the beginning of the week.) And it’s working especially well in places such as Kentucky, where state officials threw themselves fully and competently behind the cause of signing up the uninsured. Those who want to repeal the law will have to admit that they are willing to deprive these people, or some large percentage of them, of insurance.

Too many conservatives would prefer not to say upfront what they really believe: They don’t want the federal government to spend the significant sums of money needed to get everyone covered. Admitting this can sound cruel, so they insist that their objections are to the ACA’s alleged unworkability, or to “a Washington takeover of the health system” (which makes you wonder what they think of Medicare, a far more centralized program). Or they peddle isolated horror stories that the fact-checkers usually discover are untrue or misleading."

So, like many other Tea Party-led conservative causes of the day, what they say is usually at least a 90 degree angle off the truth, and commonly more than that.

Now, we have to go and convince the American people about this, in sufficient numbers to keep the Senate under Democratic control.  And also because that's one of my undangerous predictions.