Really excited to have my old friend Ed Kilgore in our pages here at TPM. Don’t miss this piece. “It’s the Fundamentals, Stupid: Elections Aren’t Determined By Short-Term ‘Game Changes’“

Late last week Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made a big show of trying but failing to sign up for Obamacare because of the notoriously buggy website. (Actually he appears to have been using the DC exchange site.) He even did a special tweet noting his hopeless situation. Not terribly surprising given the frustrating experiences so many have had.

Actually, it turns out he had successfully enrolled and got a call confirming that about an hour after his tweet. But it gets better.

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