The GOP's greatest Obamacare nightmare has arrived.

Courtesy of TPM:  

The politics of the health care law have undergone a sea change since its disastrous rollout last fall, when many conservative operatives were salivating at the prospect of a GOP wave in the midterm elections due to an Obamacare "train wreck." 

But the train never wrecked. The law rebounded, surpassing its signups goal and withstanding a flurry of attacks. The issue seems to have mostly lost its power as a weapon against Democrats, and a growing number of Republican governors — even in conservative states — are warming to a core component of Obamacare, the Medicaid expansion. 

To get a sense of why this is worrying for Republicans in the long run, look no further than conservative strategist Bill Kristol's 1993 memo — "Defeating President Clinton's Health Care Proposal" — warning that reform would paint Democrats as "the generous protector of middle-class interests" and strike a "punishing blow" to the GOP's anti-government ideology. 

"But the long-term political effects of a successful Clinton health care bill will be even worse — much worse. It will relegitimize middle-class dependence for 'security' on government spending and regulation. It will revive the reputation of the party that spends and regulates, the Democrats, as the generous protector of middle-class interests. And it will at the same time strike a punishing blow against Republican claims to defend the middle class by restraining government," Kristol wrote. 

In other words, the real fear back then was that health care reform would succeed.

And now, thanks to Obama, it has.  

Two decades later, Kristol's prophecy is haunting Republicans. Obamacare has provided a lifeline by providing coverage to 8 million people on the exchanges, 7 million under Medicaid expansion and 5 million who bought insurance outside the exchanges but benefit from new regulations like the coverage guarantee for individuals with preexisting conditions. Even Republicans in deeply conservative states are suggesting that the popular new benefits cannot be taken away, even if the Obamacare brand still struggles.

The Republicans pinned all of their hopes on using Obamacare to attack the Democrats who voted for it, and defeat them in 2014.

But now with that hope dashed to the rocks of the Obamacare success, what is left in their quiver?

Jobs? Nope their getting better.

Immigration? Nope the President is tabling that until after the midterms.

Benghazi? The IRS "scandal?" Fast and Furious?

Nope, nope and nope.

Those are all bullshit and really only reflect on the President anyhow.

So exactly HOW are the Republicans supposed to retake the Senate in 2014?