Want to know how to tell you’re going to have a bad day in Washington?  A man walks up to you and says, “Hi, I’m Jason Mattera, and I want to ask you a question.”  Actually, since Jason is a friend of mine, that would be a good day for me, but not so much for politicians.  Jason, the senior investigative reporter for Talk Radio Network and a New York Times best-selling author, gave Hot Air an exclusive first look at his latest video produced for the Andrea Tantaros Show, which features Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) attempting to walk away from a good question — whatever happened to those health-care premiums price cuts Barack Obama and Democrats promised when they passed ObamaCare three years ago?

McDermott’s answer is priceless:

“Who’s paying you?  The cock brothers?”

Er, that’s Koch brothers, as Jason corrects McDermott.  McDermott tries to first walk away from Jason, but then later engages him by arguing that all other Western nations have national health-insurance management.  “Every industrialized country in the world takes care of its people,” McDermott replied, which doesn’t actually answer Jason’s original question but does address his follow-up.  Why not just turn around and offer the answer in the first place?  Probably because there is no good answer, as premiums spike upward and the promise to bend cost curves downward turn out to be empty.

The only politician who ever actually used the right approach to Jason was Al Franken, who is otherwise well known for refusing to engage with any reporter not from Minnesota.  Whether one agrees with Franken or not, he was smart enough to challenge Jason right back.

Update: Thanks to Drudge for the big link!