Nearly seven years ago, moments before President Obama signed the national healthcare legislation into law, he declared, “When I sign this bill, all of the overheated rhetoric over reform will finally confront the reality of reform.”

Obama was right about rhetoric and reality meeting, but when they converged, the outcome was a lot different than he had hoped. Instead of vindicating him and boosting Democrats, the reality of Obamacare savaged his own political party in three different election years. It’s in large part thanks to Obamacare’s failures that Republicans now control the House, Senate and presidency, and are in a position to wipe out the president’s signature legislative accomplishment.