Analysis: GOP aims at website, hopes to hit law

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are waging war against a hapless website and hoping it leads to the destruction of “Obamacare,” the health care program they loathe so fervently.

As a tactic, it’s no more likely to succeed than this autumn’s self-wounding decision by Republicans to force a partial government shutdown and flirt with default on the national debt. Or the dozens of previous GOP attempts to defeat, defund or delay the law. Or their unsuccessful bid to have the Supreme Court declare unconstitutional the signature program of President Barack Obama’s first term.

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