There has been no sabotage; just plain failure

Charles C.W. Cooke at NRO makes an important point about the argument one is starting to hear that states which declined to set up their own exchanges are somehow responsible for FHer-care's horrible rollout:

To believe that the states have in some way “nullified” or “sabotaged” the law by choosing not to do the lifting themselves is to believe that the states are merely regional departments of the federal government and that their electing whether or not to expand Medicaid or set up health-care exchanges is illegitimate. In this case, “political reasons” means doing what the people in their states wanted them to do. What next? That “if Americans had just chosen to sign up, then the system would have worked”?

I guess I can see the FHers' motivation for such desperate whining.  It would be hard, if you were an FHer, to admit that this BFD, in Joe Biden's immortal characterization, was inherently fatally flawed.