Washington State to Obama: **** Off

◼ (Thursday’s) presser was intended to make insurance companies the scapegoats for the Obama administration’s galactic incompetence. The bottom line is that it will be virtually impossible for insurance companies to recalculate rates, notify customers, etc., by the deadlines. This would permit Obama to say he did what he could but the evil insurance companies would not go along. - RedState

The last lie had hardly vanished from the ether when Washington State’s insurance commissioner announced that Washington’s insurers would be compelled to comply with the law:

Just hours after President Obama announced changes to his health care law to give insurance companies the option to keep offering consumers plans that would otherwise be canceled, Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler says those changes will not be allowed in our state.