House Republicans say they’re being left out of an Obamacare briefing from a White House officials who are coming to the Hill to brief Democratic allies on Wednesday. Mike Hash, who leads the HHS Office of Health Reform, is scheduled to brief Democrats on implementation of the law at the Democrats’ weekly caucus meeting.

House Republicans discover another nefarious partisan plot by the Obama administration to use Obamacare as a weapon to freeze the GOP out of the political process:This is really awful news, because wow! Republicans being denied access to a policy briefing for House Democrats should be the lead story in every newspaper from here to there. Because health care shouldn't be used like a pawn in the battle royal between Democrats and Republicans, am I right?

So why is that the briefing is being held at all? What dirty truth is at the bottom of this?



House Democrats requested the meeting with Hash.

Oh. House Democrats requested a briefing. A briefing that Republicans could have requested. But didn't. Because they don't give a shit about making Obamacare work. Unless they can make it work to help them win the next election. Because for them, your health is a pawn in a political struggle.

And House Republicans have now gotten exactly what they could have gotten if they'd requested the meeting in the first place: A briefing about Obamacare.

Next up for House GOP: Repeal the briefing. Or at least defund it. Or delay it. Or require members of Congress and their staff to attend it. Or just complain about the web site signup for the meeting, which, to be fair, is actually not working very well. But can be fixed.