1) Every day thousands and thousands of innocent Americans are losing their insurance policies and being cast into a situation in which they cannot acquire new health insurance because the system has broken down and/or because the insurance available under Obamacare is prohibitively expensive.
It is imperative that any opposition taken by Republicans against delay or modification of Obamacare not be played in the press as making this misery the Republicans fault.
2) Obama himself evidently has the unilateral, albeit unconstitutional, power to delay the imposition of the individual mandate by Fiat.
It is imperative that Obama be placed in the position before he can do so that makes the debacle his fault and makes it clear that a unilateral delay is not made out of concern for Americans cast without insurance onto a broken computer system, but out of a selfish concern to protect Democrats in November 2014. The Republicans should advance other remedies making it more difficult for Obama to act unilaterally.
3) Litigation will no doubt proliferate and it is important that the Republicans do not sign onto any legislation which might cure claims in such litigation which could conceivably bring down Obamacare either because it's unconstitutional or because its application is unconstitutional and without that application the whole system disintegrates.
4) Whatever the Republicans do, they must do it in unison-an unrealistic demand I know but if the Rinos in the Senate especially cave on this they should expect all out war in the party.
5) You're Absolutely right under no circumstances should a delay bring the reckoning past the November 2014 election and it should be so constructed that the world is fully apprised well in advance of that election of the pain Obamacare will inflict on millions of Americans.
6) Obama himself must be morally destroyed all as is set forth in my vanity, No Time for Schadenfreude, Get out in Front Now
Point 1 is the tricky one.....because of point 4 as well as inherent cross currents going on in both parties now.