So Obamacare has arrived. The House already voted for it, the Senate will do the same. Nothing can stop it socialized medicine now. It’s here.

Although Republicans lost the legislation battle, they won the PR war; and they know it. You can see it in the way the walk, talk and move around. They’re confident, very confident, even. They know that they’ll win the elections big time later this year. Voting for Obamacare, they understand, was the equivalent of political suicide for many Democratic members of the House.

I haven’t seen Republicans this optimistic in years. They believe they’ve got the American people in their pocket.

And that’s exactly where the GOP could lose it all two or, since Obama will undoubtedly continue to pursue highly unpopular leftist policies in the three remaining years of his first (and I believe only) term,* four years from now. You see, Republicans apparently fall in the old trap of believing that winning elections means that people like you and what you’re doing.

Especially in American politics, the opposite is true. Most voters don’t vote for the party they prefer over the other party but for the lesser of two evils. Their allegiance to one party or another is purely temporary and a matter of convenience.

If Republicans do what they did when Bush was president – in other words, forget all of the promises they made on the campaign trail about fiscal responsibility, federalism, etc. – they’ll won’t be in charge of Congress for long. No, they’ll win the elections this time around, only to lose ‘m next time.

Can the GOP establish a permanent majority? Yes, if they take the lessons of the last couple of years to heart and start actually implementing sane, conservative policies. If not, they’ll be run out of town before they’re used to their new offices – and rightly so.

* Republicans could still win two years from now because of the anti-Obama vote. Just like Democrats won in 2006 because of Bush’s low popularity ratings.