No, after a week no-one heard that Obamacare was a failure because the government was shutdown. a shutdown we were promised would repeal Obamacare, and it didn't.
So the first two weeks of Obamacare all the news stories were about when the GOP house would pass a ‘clean’ CR to 'get the government running' again.
Americans would not find out ‘what a colossal failure Obamacare is’ until Bohner put that negotiated CR up for a vote and the government resumed operation mid October.
Yep, ONLY after the ‘surrender’ all news stories were about Obamacare website and cancellations and Obama’s lie.
The two week shutdown protected him from that.
The GOP-e has no clue how to shape public opinion. NONE! NADA! ZIPPO
I will repeat myself, “Because the GOP-e had/has no effing clue on how to shape public opinion, they weren't ready to go for the initial retreat to make a big deal about Obama illegally and unilaterally changing Obamacare willy nilly. There should be ads day and night how Obama is acting unconstitutionally, how the average American is going to be hurt by Obamacare, etc.”
...and:
“For example, every time Boehner/McConnely make a statement they should do it under a Debt Clock and have an estimate of how many millions of Americans lost their insurance due to Obamacare.”