Republican Attacks on the Affordable Care Act Give Democrats an Opportunity to Court Small Business 

Here is a message Republicans can repeat with characteristic uniformity to bolster their increasingly absurd claim to be the “pro-business” party: If you are a small business owner, terminate your employees, shut down your company, and find suitable employment with a large corporation, or better yet, the state or federal government.  

Leading Republicans must already believe that instructing entrepreneurs to shutter operations and add to the unemployment rolls is a winning message for the November midterms...