What Is It You Are For?

++As the ACA ramps up and people start enrolling,the GOP venom has just gotten more potent. As the Iran Deal continues on,the GOP screams "appeasement" but will not offer any alternative. With 7 days left in Congress this year, Tan Man Boehner actually says that the GOP will offer an alternative to Obamacare. Yeah, right.

++Rachel Maddow has an instructive segment last night where she compared Harry Truman's "Do Nothing" Congress with today's Congress. Then they passed 395 laws--Now this Congress is at 55.

++Jay Carney said that there had been 375,000 visitors to the Healthcare website by noon yesterday. By the Lawrence O'Donnell show it was 750,000. But by midnight it was up to 1 million. 

++Dana Milbank basically said the GOP should throw in the towel since the website is working and Obamacare is here to stay.

++Bob Cesca in the Daily Blather called out Ron Fournier, the AP Washington Bureau Chief for saying that Obamacare was Obama's Iraq and Katrina both.

++The New York Times this morning printed an article that said the cost of ACA was well below expectations. In short, the ACA will save $220 billion.

++Talking Points Memo says that an additional 1.5 million Americans have signed up for Medicaid since October.

++This has not stopped the GOP. Darryl Issa is trying to say that Obama lied all along about the website and keeping your plan if you wanted. He has demanded from the insurance companies all their correspondence with the White House to prove this point.

++John Cornyn of Texas says that "Obama has taken lying to a whole new level." He was referring to Obamacare and not to W's statements on WMDs in Iraq or how waterboarding was not torture.

++You would think the GOP would step back from the brink. But no, the Mississippi Governor ordered the state website for health insurance shut down, which has led to only one provider agreeing to cover people in the state. The California GOP has started a fake healthcare website to discourage California citizens from registering on CoveredCa. Anti-ACA groups, primarily conservative Republicans have spent $9.4 million against the ACA in the deep South. The Post printed the article with an interactive map to chart where the money has been spent.

++The House GOP claims that de-funding Obamacare will not be the cause for any government shutdown. Instead,they are demanding that the Pentagon sequester cuts be rescinded for cuts in Social Security.

++Andrew Sullivan yesterday in the Dish captured the mood of the GOP and conservatives when he blasted Erick Erickson of Red State for his blog post, which said that millions would lose their insurance and that conservatives should do nothing to help fix the law but let the public see government fail and then repal it. Sullivan rightfully noted the nihilistic extremism in this statement. Further along he quoted Norm Ornstein, the usually moderate Republican at AEI, saying the conservatives are eating themselves. As evidence of this was a TPM piece yesterday about the rise of Obamacare McCarthyism, which attacks Republicans who might like elements of the healthcare law or who want to improve it.

++Jonathan Capehart last night penned," The GOP might as well be Dead". Capehart notes that after the 2012 elections, the RNC conducted an autopsy on the Party and autopsy is conducted on someone who is dead. Capehart notes that the GOP is dead to African-Americans. He notes the weird tweet on the RNC hailing Rosa Parks in her struggle that ended racism, a remark that set up howls of laughter and outrage. He notes the campaigns for voter suppression and the   daily campaign of insults to the first African-American President. He highlighted the fact that during the government shutdown high-ranking Republican elected leaders and officials picketed the White House with Confederate flags waving. Capehart says the GOP is dead to Latinos also. While the Senate passed immigration reform,House Republicans have pronounced immigration reform dead. He notes that the GOP point to Chris Christie winning re-election with 51% of the Hispanic vote. But he also notes that at the time Christie backed the Dream Act. Now that he is running for President he has changed his position.

++House Republicans now claim they will get around to immigration reform late next year. So,what exactly does the GOP believe? They are willfully sabotaging the ACA. Andrew Sullivan now calls the GOP a "cult" driven by an anti-government agenda. A National Journal poll out today says the last two priorities the American people have today are the deficit and Obamacare. The debate is over.