Sarah Palin believes she sees an opportunity to go all "partisan piranha" on the Obama administration. Too bad stupid fish can't understand facts.

Last week the Obama administration announced that it had approved 204 waivers over the past month-and-a-half, for a total of 1,372.

On Tuesday, the Daily Caller published a story stating that 38 — or 19 percent — of those 204 waivers were in Pelosi's San Francisco area district. (I am guessing it took the conservatives almost a week of combing over the report to find the part they were going to take out of context and lose their shit over.)

Then somebody slowly explained to the grizzled Mama that this was an opportunity for her to get some media coverage by faking outrage, so she promptly delivered her rabid response in a flaming paper bag to the doorstep of the Daily Caller:

“Unflippingbelievable! No, wait, it is believable,” Palin said in an email to TheDC. “Seriously, this is corrupt. And anyone who still supports the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda of centralized government takeovers of the free market and the corresponding crony capitalism is, in my book, complicit.”

(My understanding is that the Daily Caller intern who first read that diatribe had to be rushed to a nearby hospital for an injection of anti-venom.)

The rest of the Right Wing noise machine followed suit, and worked frantically to turn this mole hill into a very shaky, mostly fabricated mountain.

Sadly this forced the White House to respond, using a little thing we like to call facts. Like so:

Today, you might have seen news stories about waivers from certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. There has been no shortage of confusion and deliberate obfuscation on this issue and we want to ensure you have the facts.

Under the Affordable Care Act, we have implemented new rules that phase out, by 2014, health insurance companies’ ability to slap restrictive annual dollar limits on the amount they will pay for your care. But between now and 2014, we also want to make sure workers are able to maintain their existing insurance, because on their own they would likely be shut out of the individual market or face unaffordable options. To do that, the Affordable Care Act allows the Department of Health and Human Services to issue temporary waivers from the annual limit provision of the law if it would disrupt access to existing insurance arrangements or adversely affect premiums, causing people to lose coverage. So far, we have granted 1,372 of these waivers to employers, health plans, and others in all 50 states, covering less than 2 percent of the insurance market and protecting coverage for more than 3.1 million Americans. We have been completely transparent about this process, announcing the waiver process in a regulation last summer, publishing clear guidance on the application process on our website, and posting a list of waivers we have granted on our website.

These temporary waivers will not be available beginning in 2014 when annual limits are banned and all Americans will have affordable coverage options. And millions of Americans – including many small business owners – will be able to shop for affordable coverage in new competitive marketplaces.

Some have raised questions about waivers that were recently granted to companies in California. So there’s no confusion, here are the facts:

• A company called Flex Plan Services is a third-party administrator that provides benefit administration services for employers in a number of states, including: California, Washington, Alaska, and Georgia. One type of plan they administer is known as a health reimbursement arrangements (HRA or employer contributions to a tax free account). Many of the company’s clients are hotels, restaurants and home health agencies, all of whom employ low-wage workers.
• On March 23, Flex Plan Services submitted 92 waiver requests on behalf of 45 employer clients. On April 4, 2011, HHS approved the request.
• HHS applied the same standard to the application from Flex Plan Services that it uses when reviewing any application for a temporary waiver. Waivers are only available if the plan certifies that a waiver is necessary to prevent either a large increase in premiums or a significant decrease in access to coverage.
• In addition, enrollees must be informed that their plan offers coverage with a restricted annual limit.
• No other provision of the Affordable Care Act is affected by these waivers: they only apply to the annual limit policy.

Now of course this should completely put this "controversy" to rest, but it won't. 

You see the Conservatives never leave home without their anti-fact magic underwear on (They got the idea from the Mormons) so there is little chance that this carefully worded, logical explanation will have any effect on them whatsoever.

So go ahead and expect to hear them flogging this dead, quickly decomposing horse for several more days, if not weeks.