Catatonic panda? White House's beloved @AdorableCareAct goes mute after O-care website debacle

Back in September, the White House was awfully fond of promoting Obamacare with images from the “Adorable Care Act,” a Twitter account created by a former Obama campaign staffer.

Don't be a sad panda: You can get affordable health coverage in 5 days http://t.co/GNfbftrfo3 (h/t @AdorableCareAct) pic.twitter.com/abIY3BP3yO

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) September 25, 2013

Sad Panda was swiftly countered by more realistic photos from Obamacare’s wild kingdom. And some Adorable Care Act pics, like the lab mouse on a swing, turned out to be more prescient than intended. Under Obamacare, we are all lab mice now.

But would you look at that? The Adorable Care Act’s last fuzzy-wuzzy animal tweet was on October 9, little more than a week after HealthCare.gov’s humiliating launch.

Don't monkey around with your health – #GetCovered today: http://t.co/oB4N8EhEuV, pic.twitter.com/TMTJMpn1dL

— Adorable Care Act (@AdorableCareAct) October 9, 2013

On October 15, @AdorableCareAct complained that a font conversion website was — what’s the word? — glitchy.

https://twitter.com/AdorableCareAct/status/390292759325597697

Really? That’s the troubled website on your mind? Deflect like there’s no tomorrow!

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The account’s most recent tweet, on October 19, was an HHS.gov propaganda retweet.

RT this–>FACT: Nearly a half million #Obamacare applications have been filed: http://t.co/brbc34mIvd

— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) October 20, 2013

Since then? Silence. Screamingly loud, oh-so-telling silence.

weird. @AdorableCareAct has be silent for weeks. No kittens celebrating losing their "junk" insurance for magic insurance?

— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) November 3, 2013

https://twitter.com/CAAmyO/status/400732742599450625

Psst… @AdorableCareAct: Now would be a good time for a baby hedgehog pic.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 14, 2013

But wait … was @AdorableCareAct more influential than anyone suspected?

https://twitter.com/sqwerin/status/401930504301068288

https://twitter.com/sqwerin/status/401790987195777024

Dude!