The representative who serves as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee said in an article published Thursday that the problems that have characterized the Affordable Care Act’s rollout may begin to snowball, making Democrats who supported the law vulnerable at the ballot box.
“If the Web site glitches are just the tip of the iceberg,” Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) said, as quoted by the New York Times, “it’s only a matter of time before the law sinks and takes with it those Democrats who wrote it, voted for it and are proud of it.”
Next year’s midterms will likely mark the third consecutive American election wherein the 2010 health care law figures prominently. Obamacare was also at the center of the recent budget and debt fights, with tea party Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz (TX) waging a fruitless effort to defund the law.
Walden will actually be forced to thwart attacks from Democrats and Republican in the 2014 midterms. A tea partier named Dennis Linthicum announced Wednesday that he will challenge the NRCC chairman next year.
