OK, don't have a fit: Five thoughts on the Obamacare disaster

[Waiting For Everyman]

43. I assume that the shutdown is responsible

for at least some part of the problem with the website. Why would we think that most of the government being shut down would have no part to play in launching a new government program and website? Are we really expected to believe that it has no effect at all? I highly doubt that. Yet all the commentary I have seen about this completely ignores it as a contributing factor.

According, I am so far ignoring the said commentary as hot air. I'm sure that there are problems with the system apart from the shutdown, and I'm just as sure they'll eventually be fixed. But I won't be expecting a lot until a while after all of the government is back on the job. It's only common sense.

So as to any political advantage for the Republicans spoken of in the article, in my book the Republicans have now made themselves responsible for the problems with the ACA rollout too. As the saying in retail goes... they broke it, so they own it.

I'm not at all sure that the rollout would've gone this badly had there been no shutdown. Maybe. But then again, maybe not. In any case, it no longer matters because the Repubs did what they did. To me, it's a non-story now, just like Benghazi and all the others they beat to death before it. Granted, I'm sure everybody won't see it my way but I'll bet a lot of people do.