A good piece by Salena Zito:

Our relationship with government is in shambles, our feeling of disconnect with Washington at an historic level.

Yet the real problem is not a health-care website that doesn’t work. The real problem is a president and a Washington culture which both believe it is okay to lie to get a bill passed.

Hey, gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette. As I said before, I hope that this is an asteroid smashing an ideology.

Really? That’s Obama’s problem? Not listening, but that’s the title of the panel segment on This Week.

Of course, if we’d known half of what we know now a year ago — about Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservatives, the blatant deliberate lies about keeping your health plan, period, etc., there wouldn’t have been a second term.

Not a sooper genius:

Obviously he wouldn’t want to delay Obamacare. But that decision was out of his hands due to his administration’s incompetence. The only choice before him was whether he would get the blame for the delay or if the Republicans would.

Why Obama didn’t do this and why it didn’t occur to him are good questions. Hubris obviously played a role, as it does in nearly everything this White House does. But the best answer is he didn’t know how terrible things were over at HHS. In other words, the chess master didn’t even know what pieces he had on the board, which is usually not something we associate with chess masters. It’s something we associate with people who don’t even know how to play the game.

The media always overhypes the intelligence of Democrats, but this guy’s in a league of his own in that regard. On the other hand, when you’re called “inept” by Jimmy Carter, it ought to sting.

…healthcare died. A history.

Old story line: “Obama didn’t lie!”

New story line: “Obama had to lie to us for our own good!”

[Update a few minutes later]

71% believed that Obama knew rates would skyrocket for many insurance plans. Of course he did. That was much of the idea.

Plus this: When fraud is legal. “Under socialism, there is no such thing as consumer protection.”

The government does many things that would get others thrown in jail.