Peggy Noonan points out a problem with Obamacare. For one thing, it has crashed, and the crash is much more than just the website:

"(Americans) understand a conceptual botch when they see one. They understand this new program was so big and complex and had so many moving parts and was built on so many assumptions that may or may not hold true, and that deals with so many people with so many policies—and they know they themselves have not read their own policies, for who would when the policies, like the law that now controls the policies, are written in a way that is deliberately obscure so as to give maximum flexibility to administrators in offices far away. And that’s just your policy. What about 200 million other policies? The government can’t handle that. The government can barely put up road signs.

"The new law seems like just another part of the ongoing shakedown operation that is the relationship of the individual and the federal government, circa 2013."

That means big trouble for President Obama, Noonan points out. People know he’s a very smart man. So:

"They think, as they look at his health-care vows, that either he didn’t know how bad his program was, what dislocations it would cause, what a disturbance it would be to the vast middle class of America . . .

"Or he knew, and deliberately misled everyone.

"If they thought he wasn’t very bright, they might give him some leeway on that question. But they think he’s really smart.

"So they think he knew.

"And deliberately misled."