We knew Senate Democrats up for re-election would start dodging Obamacare.

CNN’s Dana Bash tweets every Democrat Senator up for re-election in 2014 will back a delay of the individual mandate in O’care (she refers to it as the ‘enrollment deadline’).

On August 12th BlueCollar predicted they’d be running from O’care before elections.

Democrats & Obama chose the shutdown when the GOP sent out appropriation bills crafted to delay the individual mandate (and demanding Congress not exempt themselves from Obamacare). Looks like Democrats forced that pain for nothing.

Judging by Bash’s choice of verbiage, expect the national media to avoid an ‘individual mandate’ label (which would validate what the Republicans were demanding all along).

They’ll use ‘enrollment deadline’ or less invasive labeling that shies from an ominous ‘mandate’ tone. But whatever they call it, it’s the individual mandate they’re disavowing.

Every GOP lawmaker should be stepping to the microphones to capitalize on this bit of news, reminding the American voter that this was the Republican policy Democrats fought against, refused to negotiate over, and thus chose to shut down the government.

They should press every Democrat to disavow their exemption from this hated law, and demand an answer why Democrats put Americans through this shutdown travesty.

Strike while the iron is hot.