It Just Doesn't Get Any Better Than This . . .

. . . unless you're a Republican -- then it literally doesn't get any worse than this new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll:

By a 22-point margin (53 percent to 31 percent), the public blames the Republican Party more for the shutdown than President Barack Obama – a wider margin of blame for the GOP than the party received during the poll during the last shutdown in 1995-96. Just 24 percent of respondents have a favorable opinion about the GOP, and only 21 percent have a favorable view of the Tea Party, which are both at all-time lows in the history of poll.

But as awesome as all that is, my favorite part of the poll are the numbers with regard to ObamaCare, which had a very shaky rollout last week:

[T]he health-care law has become more popular since the shutdown began. Thirty-eight percent see the Affordable Care Act (or “Obamacare”) as a good idea, versus 43 percent who see it as a bad idea – up from 31 percent good idea, 44 percent bad idea last month.

Think about that for a second: The Republicans said they staged this shutdown in an attempt to defund or delay ObamaCare, apparently thinking that the public would support them because the law is unpopular. Well, not only did this support fail to materialize for them, but the GOP is now even more unpopular than it was during Bill Clinton's PenisGate Scandal.

And -- this is the best part -- ObamaCare is more popular now than it was at the beginning of the shutdown, even though the rollout of the Health Care Law has been plagued with website problems.

Way to go, GOP.  Keep up the good work, and for God's Sake, please ignore what RINO John McCain is saying about all of this: