It has certainly been a rough ride for Obamacare to date, to say the least. But in an eye-opening indication of just how close Obamacare might be to really going off the rails, the reliably left-of-center Yahoo! featured an article yesterday afternoon entitled, “Obamacare Individual Mandate May Be Next to Fall.”  

To be sure, THE WEEKLY STANDARD’s pages have been full of suggestions that Republicans would do well to keep pushing to delay the individual mandate—Obamacare’s soft underbelly and its coercive core.  In July, the GOP-controlled House took aim at the unprecedented mandate, passing legislation to delay it for one year, with 22 Democrats in support.  Two weeks ago, Democrat Joe Manchin (W.Va.) similarly introduced legislation in the Senate—co-sponsored by Mark Kirk (R., Ill.)—to delay the individual mandate for a year.