Why so quiet, @HealthCareTara? News of six first-day O-care enrollees has spinmeisters silent

It has been reported that the first day the federal Obamacare exchange was open for business, six people managed to enroll.

Six.

Six!

The Obama administration, which still refuses to release actual enrollment numbers, is quiet.

Even @HealthCareTara, the White House’s senior Obamacare spinmeister, hasn’t yet been able to muster an excuse.

It is a matter of political debate whether or not six is a large number in a country of 310 million people.

— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 1, 2013

@HealthCareTara 6. ?

— Hair (@SHannitysHair) November 1, 2013

6
HA! HA!HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! @obamacare @HealthCareTara

— Mark Langford (@marklangford) November 1, 2013

I heard the @NBA is going to give their "6th Man" award this year to the last guy who signed up for obamacare that first day @HealthCareTara

— (((Tim O'Donnell))) (@TimothyODonnel2) November 1, 2013

Ouch, @healthcaretara – RT @NolteNC: RT @SharylAttkisson: By the end of Wed, the second day, the notes reflect "248 enrollments" nationwide.

— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) October 31, 2013

https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/396047394095116288

"Six" RT @HealthCareTara: ENROLLMENT UPDATE: 4.7 million visitors to http://t.co/s3dzG2FhaT. 190k calls. Americans are enrolling…

— Tom (@BoreGuru) November 1, 2013

. @healthcaretara 6 people signed up the first day. Congrats and any comment??

— The (@BrianGottfried) November 1, 2013

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Jay Carney will no doubt refer reporters to the HHS, which will then refer reporters to a non-answer.

https://twitter.com/GOPfashionista/status/396090427129856001

@YerboutiSheik @StephieInTexas @PressSec @bayareahausfrau that's SIX: pic.twitter.com/G46yaTtOq4

— Natasha Fatale, Pottsylvanian Spy & Bombshell (@N_Fatale) November 1, 2013

The Obama administration claimed they had no idea how many people had managed to enroll in an Obamacare plan.

Who will ask Jay Carney about his blatant lie? @edhenryTV? Anyone? http://t.co/KwlTmc0wP5

— RBe (@RBPundit) November 1, 2013

But they knew then and they know now.

The administration knows how many are enrolled right now. They're not telling us because it's an embarrassingly low number.

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) November 1, 2013

The White House claimed not to know, but somehow Saturday Night Live got it right.