The Website Is Only a Symptom

Daily Beast columnist and CNN contributor Sally Kohn took to Twitter on Monday with a triumphant message to Republicans.  “Once again, Republicans,” she tweeted, “if you’re [sic] biggest attack against Obamacare is the website,that’s a sign you’re losing the larger debate.”

Kohn’s tweet echoes a common theme among ObamaCare’s myriad media bulwarks like her– a suggestion that criticism focusing on the technical issues experienced by the online ObamaCare exchanges is a sign of weakness in the public debate over healthcare.

On one level, it just seems like your typical spin, meant to turn the sour and toxic fruit of ObamaCare’s implementation into a bitter drink that can be choked down if you’re willing to just close your eyes, hold your nose, and chug with the Obama faithful.

It’s doubtful that it’ll be widely lapped up outside her more devoted readers, however.  President Obama’s flagship healthcare legislation now enjoys adismally low 26% approval rating, Democrats just suffered a substantial defeat in a Florida election that was all too obviously hinging upon the Democratic support of and Republican opposition to ObamaCare, and many Democrats in flyover country are, out of apparent necessity and in a desperate bid for survival, roundly distancing themselves from ObamaCare.  All reasons which would, for any reasonable person, suggest that Republicans are currently winning the largerhealthcare debate, not losing.

But we have to entertain the question.  Do Sally Kohn and her cohorts really have absolutely no idea what the opposition to ObamaCare is all about?  Do they really think all this public anxiety and anger is rooted in Republicans’ exploitation of the website’s gremlins?  Or do Sally Kohn and her cohorts know precisely why conservatives fundamentally oppose ObamaCare, but are in such dire straits that the magnificent failure of a federal insurance web-exchange (which cost taxpayers anywhere between $350 million and $1 billion to market and implement, depending on the estimate) is the least damaging point to focus upon in their defense of a nationalized healthcare marketplace?

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