The left's pathetic attempt to catch Scott Walker in a 'Gruber moment'

Millhiser thinks he has nailed Walker, because at one point in his 2013 interview with the Wall Street Journal, the governor said, “But, in the end, there’s no real substantive difference between a federal exchange, or a state exchange, or the in between, the hybrid, the partnership.”

Over at Slate, my former colleague Betsy Woodruff suggests that in the Walker comments, the Left may be able to make hay out of this just as Obamacare opponents have had fun at the expense of Gruber — and quotes several Obamacare backers celebrating their resurfacing.

Yet the context that Millhiser quotes shows that Walker was talking about the phony federalism aspect of the exchanges. That is, when drafting Obamacare, Democrats tried to create the illusion that they were giving states flexibility to shape the exchanges in their own way. But in reality, there were so many restrictions on how the exchanges could be set up and on the design of the insurance policies offered on the exchanges, that ultimately, they were controlled by the Obama administration either way.