The Patriot Post® · WashPo's Milbank on Theatrics

Dana Milbank had, let’s say, an unflattering review of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s word-twisting rebuttals on ObamaCare: “Carney, at his briefing Monday, didn’t deny the [Healthcare.gov target of 80 percent would be considered a success] but did his best to qualify it with all sorts of asterisks and fine print about metrics and baskets and site stability and users’ experiences and navigators and channels and something about a continuum… Fox News’s Ed Henry asked if the ‘vast majority’ standard could be lowered to 60 percent or 70 percent. Carney droned on about ‘the context in which these metrics are being described.’”