What? They deliberately inflated numbers and were less than transparent? Why, this has never happened before regarding Obamacare!

Yes, my sarcasm meter is broken again.

The Obama administration included as many as 400,000 dental plans in a number it reported for enrollments under the Affordable Care Act, an unpublicized detail that helped surpass a goal for 7 million sign-ups.

Without the dental plans, the federal government would have had 6.97 million people with medical insurance under the law known as Obamacare, investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform committee calculated, using data they obtained from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Federal officials said in September they had 7.3 million people enrolled in coverage through new government-run insurance exchanges. They didn’t distinguish between medical and dental plans, breaking from previous practice without notice.

Oh, and now that they’ve been caught inflating the numbers? No comment.

Kevin Griffis, a spokesman for the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, said he didn’t have a comment yet, hours after being asked for one.

Why, it’s almost as if they don’t say anything, no one will notice!

Congressman Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has taken to Twitter.

After touting 8 mil initial #Obamacare signups for medical plans, four months later they engaged in concerted effort to obscure dropout rate

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 20, 2014

Instead of offering an accurate accounting, the admin engaged in an effort to obscure and downplay number of #Obamacare dropouts.

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 20, 2014

At a Sept @GOPoversight hearing, CMS administrator Tavenner said 7.3 mil people were "enrolled in the health insurance marketplace coverage"

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 20, 2014

At that hearing, CMS Administrator Tavenner did not elaborate or break out dental plans as CMS has done in the past. #Obamacare

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 20, 2014

But in May of last year, the Obama admin separated the 8 mil health plan figure from the 1.1 mil dental coverage. #Obamacare

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 20, 2014

When @GOPoversight asked for raw enrollment data, investigators were able to confirm that nearly 400k plans were dental by matching plan IDs

— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) November 20, 2014

Reliably, the lapdogs are attempting to make excuses for outright obfuscation.

This is such a dumb, unforced error by the Obama administration: http://t.co/N1VuxJjUu6

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 20, 2014

“Unforced error?” Yeah, right.

The term you're looking for is "lie." #Gruber RT @ezraklein This is such a dumb, unforced error by the Obama administration

— RBe (@RBPundit) November 20, 2014

And a final note of truth:

A handy guide to when you should believe the government's ObamaCare numbers:

1. Never
2. Not ever

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) November 20, 2014

They really do think the American public is stupid. In fact, they are counting on it.