It’s such a fiscal clusterfark that his own administration came out and admitted it was dead in the water. But he doesn’t want it repealed…for some reason.

President Obama is against repealing the health law’s long-term care CLASS Act and might veto Republican efforts to do so, an administration official tells The Hill, despite the government’s announcement Friday that the program was dead in the water.

“We do not support repeal,” the official said Monday. “Repealing the CLASS Act isn’t necessary or productive. What we should be doing is working together to address the long-term care challenges we face in this country.”

And what better way than to quickly repeal the previous attempt that proved so fiscally disastrous that even its advocates suspended it? Seems like a good stepping stone moving forward. Wipe the slate clean and start again.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Friday in a blog post on the liberal Huffington Post web site that the administration did not see a way to make the program sustainable. Sebelius indicated her agency hadn’t been able to figure out a way to ensure the program providing long-term care paid for itself as required by law.

Later in a call with reporters on Friday, an HHS official said work on the program was being suspended.

“We won’t be working further to implement the CLASS Act … We don’t see a path forward to be able to do that,” Assistant Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee told reporters on Friday.

But don’t repeal it because…why again? Because it would be prominently conceding that the administration’s attempts to takeover health care have already been disastrous? Because it would place front and center the fiscal disaster that is ObamaCare? There must be some reason, and “Because this program is just so awesome!” ain’t it. And the CBO says repealing the program won’t add to the deficit. So why not repeal it?

Legislation to repeal the CLASS Act now has the sponsorship of nearly one-third of the United States Senate and 48 members of the House, including one Democrat from Illinois. Congress should move quickly to end this horrid program. And the rest of ObamaCare while they’re at it.