This brouhaha is another example of Obama's cluelessness about politics--and about people:

The Affordable Healthcare Act is his touchstone achievement. It's also the fulcrum of the Congressional impasse that led to the shutdown. Obama could have anticipated that the computer systems designed for signing up people to the healthcare program was very complex and would potentially encounter serious flaws.

If he had any political sense at all, he would have realized that signing up as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, was his number-one priority. He should have turned heaven and earth to make sure the system worked right the first time, even spending millions on outside consultants and experts to test-run the software and debug it. Then he could have told his foes in Congress: "You want to defund Obamacare? Why not ask the three million people who signed up for it in the first week--including your own constituents--if they'd like to give up their benefits?" He'd have taken the wind right out of the Obamacare debate--and with it, the government shutdown.

Instead, by not caring enough, he now has millions of people disgruntled and disgusted with another example of "broken government." Lots of them are going to give up and join the ranks of people who want to get rid of Obamacare.