I don’t know if it was a curse to Republicans in the long run, but it was a curse for the American people.
What you said.
ObamaCare has now led to a series of lawless steps in which Obama enforces parts of the law that he likes and simply announces the cancellation of parts he doesn't like. That precedent will be followed by a republican, in another loss for the American people, even if it advances a small corner of the republican agenda. The Constitution is now dead, as is the rule of law. We now have the politics of pull, in which FedGov takes from each in accordance with their willingness to follow written law and gives to each in accordance with their inside connections.