The water is getting warmer, GOP.

[D23MIURG23]

This past week especially I'm hearing a lot more press about how the website isn't so bad, and how people are signing up for ACA benefits in droves. Here, for instance, is a helpful article in salon explaining that the GOP has stopped holding repeal votes in the house of representatives and the reason for that.

Now that it’s December, Republicans are facing accelerating enrollment across the country and a thinning calendar. Healthcare.gov is much improved and still improving, and the House is set to adjourn on December 13 for the remainder of the year. When it returns, the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve already successfully enrolled will actually be insured, and their ranks will be swelling.


http://www.salon.com/2013/12/02/r_i_p_obamacare_repeal_movement_crusade_is_officially_dead/

The water is getting warmer. Uninsured people are getting insurance. People who have been denied insurance previously are getting insurance. Whatever the flaws of the ACA, we've come to the point now where it is actually going to start helping people, and it will help them to a greater and greater degree over the next few years.

And now comes the awkward moment where the public can meditate on the fact that the GOP opposed this policy to the point where they actually shut down the government and threatened a debt ceiling default in order to stop it. Now comes the part where newly insured voters can compare their experience with the ACA with all the rhetoric about Hitler and the death panels, and draw their own conclusions. Add to that the fact that the GOP has brainwashed their crazy fringe into actually believing that crap, and you can see why this might be a little bit of a problem.

Will the elephant get out of the pot before the water boils? Either the GOP is going to have to struggle to pull themselves and their bag-full-of-hammers dumb base out of the "Obamacare is the final solution" rhetoric and look like asses in the process, or we are going to be serving a lot of elephant soup in the next few elections. IMO either outcome is richly deserved and should be fun to watch.

[sharp_stick]

1. More evidence of the same thing

was noted yesterday when one half of the dumb and dumber Senate delegation from Texas, John Cornyn decided to get back on the Benghazi train.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/john-cornyn-benghazi-libya-100574.html

[Mass]

2. They cant (at least at the level of the Congress GOP). They have bet everything on bashing ACA.

They have nothing to run on (except the attempts of the far right to impeach Obama without using the word) as they cannot agree on the most basic things between those who want government to do nothing and those who want to help corporations -- and doing that by claiming they care about people--).

I do not know if GOP governors have other things to propose, but it is clear Congress GOP does not. They are still as divided between establishment GOP and Tea Party.

So, once again, they will drown out of stupidity.

[D23MIURG23]

4. Yeah, I'd guess not.

It'll be interesting to see how the situation develops in the house especially. I'm guessing we'll keep hearing about how evil obamacare is from the teahadists at very least.

[Blue Owl]

3. Please, allow me to turn the burner up a notch