What do you do when the healthcare law you passed — the one that probably cost your party its majorities in Congress and helped expel it from the White House as well — continues its slide, with insurer drop-outs and 50 percent premium hikes in some places? You go on offense, blaming the people who opposed your all-encompassing, 3,000-page law for its continued failure.

Double-digit premium hikes? Again? After last year’s 25 percent average increase? It can’t be because of the regulatory framework we created. It has to be the result of a repeal bill that had no chance of becoming law last year and hasn’t even become law yet this year.