Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., described the latest Obamacare mandate delay as a “disappointing” admission by President Obama’s team that they couldn’t effectively implement part of the law.

“A delay of this kind — it’s a fix, but it’s also an acknowledgement that, ‘look, we couldn’t implement this in a way that was positive,’ and that’s disappointing,” Kaine told the Washington Examiner when asked Wednesday about the Treasury Department’s announcement that the employer mandate for medium-sized businesses would not be enforced until 2016. “[It says,] ‘we couldn’t implement it right now in a way that we really felt confident, so we’re going to delay for a year because we’re worried about implementation.’ ”