Lots of things happen when an incompetent administration bullies, lies, and buys off a nation into a breath-takingly complex experiment in government power grabbing in a critical area of every citizen’s life.  Most of them are bad — catastrophic, even, especially for individuals — but one small positive thing we can salvage is the lesson.

So, let’s pause to thank the narcissistic head of that administration for the clarity. According to Obama voter Walter Russell Mead, “the most shocking ObamaCare revelation” is that “the President of the United States didn’t know that his major domestic priority wasn’t ready for prime time — and he thinks that sharing this news with us will somehow make it better.”

Adjusting for the attributes of this administration that give the impression of cosmic hyperbolism, that shocking fact actually may derive from a commonplace error of progressive thought… a sort of infant peek-a-boo game for politics… the notion that if one cannot see a harm, it does not exist.

This came up during the Wingmen segment on minimum wage.  It might feel good to force employers to give employees more money, but advocates can’t see the people downstream in the chain of consequences whose lives become more difficult when case-by-case decisions are forbidden.  The sympathetic target of the altruism may actually be the collateral damage from some prior decision that helped somebody else.

With ObamaCare, the administration allowed the consequences to come too quickly and the lines from handout to hindered to be too direct.  They’re unmistakable.

Maybe Obama didn’t think he needed to pay attention to details because in every other progressive rewriting of reality, the consequences never stain the original good intentions.  Like the Joshua computer in War Games, Americans should learn from Obama’s Tic-Tac-Toe that the game of central planning cannot be won.