| | A last-ditch proposal by Senate Republicans to unwind the Affordable Care Act collapsed Tuesday, leaving Obamacare's critics nearly out of time to meet a procedural deadline and short on ideas for a consensus that could pass. After seven years of promising to overturn President Obama's signature domestic initiative, Republicans are left with hard choices about what to do now and how to explain it to their voters. Republicans now face the prospect of going into next year's elections with Obamacare intact and the immigration law for so-called DREAMers enacted through a bipartisan deal now being negotiated between President Trump and congressional Democrats. Republicans risk sufficient disenchantment by the GOP's base voters that they would stay home from the polls next November, or perhaps embrace anti-establishment candidates.
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