It is much, much more important that Republicans resist Obama, and this accepts that there will be extreme pressure put on them in the short term. But the elections are very far away right now.
Simply put:
If Republicans cave now, out of fear of alienating the more liberal voters in two year, they will alienate their core voters right now. And as these core voters demonstrated in the last election, if you do that, you lose them, and you *will* lose the election.
So it is a contest between “might” and “will”.
However, if the Republicans keep their intestinal fortitude, yes they will get heat from the Democrats and the MSM for two or three months. But then push comes to shove.
The Democrats truly believe that Obama is a dictator, and as such, if he orders something, he must be obeyed. But the flip side to this is if he orders something and it does not happen, he has failed “the agenda”, or more to the point, “he is a god that bleeds”. A false god.
And when the paychecks are cut off for Democrats especially across the country, Obama and the Democrat party will be at the center of their wrath.
Republicans worry too much about pissing off people that would never vote for them in the first place.