When you lose NBC

About six hours ago, NBC posted an article pointing out that President Obama had known all along that millions of Americans would lose their insurance coverage.  As of this posting, there were almost 3,400 comments, mostly of the mad-as-hornets variety.  No one seems much interested in listening to administration mouthpieces explain how we all really should have known this was coming, so it wasn't exactly the same thing as a lie.  (I actually did expect part of it; I always believed they'd find a way to kill my individual policy, and have said so often.  But I confess I didn't expect that it would be almost twice as expensive to buy a replacement with a somewhat lower deductible, or that others would see increases of 300% or 400%.)

A man quoted in the article is coming to the same conclusion Raven and I are mulling over:  shouldn't we withdraw from this crooked game?  I want to see civil disobedience on a scale so massive it changes how all Americans look at the progressive agenda for decades.

It's almost unbelievable, but Valerie Jarrett and other administration hacks have taken to Twitter to push this talking point:

Nothing in the ACA forces people out of their plans. No change is required unless ins. companies change their existing plan.

Right, so it's not the law that's destroying your insurance policy, it's just the insurance company's compliance with the law that could cause a little problem.  That's how much respect they have for us.  Well, it's slightly comforting to know they're desperate to pretend the law isn't destroying the insurance coverage of millions of Americans; up to now, they were trotting out the explanation that, yes, the coverage was being taken away, but it was for our own good.  Also, it should be easy to get bi-partisan support for that bill to allow us to keep our existing coverage, right?  Because the law's not destroying it in the first place, so we're all good here.  I know I can count on Democrats in Congress to step up.

A handful of them are starting to make a fuss about demanding a refund from CGI for its work on the website.  It's the wrong part to focus on, and it shouldn't keep them from getting hung upside-down from lampposts, but it's a slight movement in the right direction:  a cheering sign that there is a healthy panic building in Congress.  I'd like it to reach the quivering, heart-palpitation stage, so I was pleased to read this purported quotation from someone described as high up in Democratic party circles:  "The Democratic Party is f**ked."  I couldn't agree more, sir.  It should be discarded entirely, and we should start with something new.

But something tells me that, after a few days of this, many of them will decide that it's really only about 15 million people affected, and they can afford to ignore them.  It will be up to the rest of the voters to decide if they'll be allowed to get away with that.