As the Obama Administration finally released the first official enrollment numbers for the Obama health law and tech experts tried to explain the troubles of healthcare.gov before a House committee, Democratic unity on the health law continued to crack amid concerns about political fallout over the President's insurance pledge.
"The President said 'if you like it you can keep it.' I want to see how we can fix that," said Rep. David Scott (D-GA), one of many Democrats thinking about voting for a GOP bill that would let people stay in their current insurance plans - even if they don't meet the minimum standards of the Obama health law.
"I want to give him some time to see if the White House can come up with a plan," Scott told me just off the House floor, where a number of Democrats were bitterly complaining to reporters about their political predicament.
Even those who weren't ready to run away from the White House on health care felt there was a disturbance in the Democratic Party Force.
"I sense fear among some Democrats," said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), who was trying to rally his colleagues.
"Stand tall, stand strong," Johnson said. "We will get through this."
But a number of House Democrats weren't interested in that, as they blasted Obama Administration officials during a closed door meeting on Wednesday, demanding that the White House serve up some kind of administrative change to deal with the Obama insurance promise.
Walking around the hallways of the Capitol, you could just feel Democrats getting antsy - and the evidence was not just coming from those elected from red states.
A day after Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) shocked Democrats by endorsing a bill from Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) to allow people to keep insurance plans being canceled, another liberal Democrat did the same - this time from Oregon.
"Our health care law laid out a vision that those who like their current individual healthcare plan can keep it, and that vision must be honored," Merkley said.
Down at the White House, officials were publicly urging Democrats to stick with them.
"The President, and everybody else here, looks at this as a matter of policy first and politics second, because the policy here is what matters," said spokesman Jay Carney, who again promised that Mr. Obama would offer up some kind of plan to address those who are losing their coverage and seeing their costs increase.
"Sooner rather than later," Carney told reporters.
For Democrats with heartburn in Congress over the troubles of the Obama health law, that's a welcome answer - depending on what the solution turns out to be.
Stay tuned.
