The grumbling over the implementation of the Affordable Care Act – or Obamacare – hasn’t just come from Republicans lately. Democratic US Senator Max Baucus of Montana recently called the health care reform’s rollout “a huge train wreck coming down.”

In response, according to a Politico article from earlier this week, the White House has dispatched White House chief of staff Denis McDonough to the Hill, tasking him with “soothing Democratic anxieties over the most divisive health care expansion in decades,” as Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown and John Bresnahan put it.

But as it turns out, not all anxieties have been soothed – including the anxieties of Washington’s Rep. Jim McDermott.

As Politico notes today, McDermott told C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” today that he’s never seen McDonough, and wouldn’t know him if the two were sitting in the same room. Furthermore, McDermott says the Obama White House “has been terribly inefficient in dealing with the promotion of their bill.”

“Maybe he’s been someplace, but I’m on the Ways and Means Committee, I’m the ranking member on the Health Subcommittee that’s implementing the bill, I’ve never seen him,” McDermott says of McDonough, responding specifically to the Politico report that the chief of staff was working to rebuild the confidence of congressional Democrats over Obamacare.

“You have to ask yourself, when is the White House going to actually get up and go? We’ve been prodding them and talking and trying everything we can,” McDermott told C-SPAN, according to Politico’s account. “We’re going to have problems between here and the beginning [of implementation], but it’s going to happen because it’s in law. And the Supreme Court said it’s the law of the land.”