Wheeeee! Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner: Many Americans shopping for better health insurance deals promised by the two-week-old Obamacare system are instead being slapped with rate shock, including savings-sapping deductibles and co-pays, according to multiple reports from around the country. For some able to get the problem-plagued Obamacare website to work, the so-called “deals” the system is coughing up around the country include $12,600 deductibles, co-pays of up to 40 percent,

How dare he? I mean, doesn’t this uppity Cruz fellow realize that, by starting a fight he couldn’t possibly win, he harmed the GOP — who without him never would have started a fight in the first place, and so would have not won a lot sooner? The goal is to get the capitulation over with. By drawing it out, you’re just making it more obvious how feckless the GOP

— Or if they do, they don’t much mind. Words can’t begin to express my disgust with those people who would rather play the game of politics than defend the principles of liberty and the sanctity of the Constitution. I won’t live as a subject. So if I’m forced to, I plan to make some of those who forced us into accepting such a fate my own personal prison bitches.

If you follow the GOP mouthpieces on Twitter, the running meme has been that conservatives — because of their stubborn, unrealistic expectations — harmed the Party, who without them may have been able to win certain concessions from Obama, who as we all know is a post-partisan, pragmatic fellow eager to compromise, just not when he’s being held hostage by wacko bird demands that, say, Congress have to live under

Caucus of Dems and some in GOP will once again give Obama all he wants, is my guess.  And they have to:  because Ted Cruz, as Jen Rubin reminds us this morning by way of a retweet, is probably a Democrat sleeper agent — and the TEA Partiers, the Dems and some GOPers keep reminding us, are “nutty” terrorists who must be purged from the Big Tent.  To, you know,