What Congress can learn from the fight over Obamacare

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Their congressional majorities were gone, but the Left had a silver lining: Obamacare was, and remains, the law of the land.
51% : As currently written, big-ticket items such as child allowance, universal child care, and free community college would all expire a few years after passage when they would become weaponized against any Republican opposing reauthorization.
49% : In pickups few saw coming, Obamacare allowed Republicans to flip seats in the blue wall of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, states the Senate majority runs through next year as well.
47% : In 2009, she held her caucus together on tough votes over Obamacare, only to watch the GOP enjoy a net gain of 63 seats the following year.
34% : This is our national politics in 2021, but it also applies to Washington during the fall of 2009 as the legislative fight over Obamacare hit high gear.

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