You know, because building a basic e-commerce website is so difficult, especially when you’re on a shoestring budget of only $600 million.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: The challenge has been just making sure that consumers are actually able to get on a website, see those choices and shop. And I think that we probably underestimated the complexities of building out a website that needed to work the way it should. There is a larger problem that I probably — speaking personally, but also as the administration — could have identified earlier, and that is the way the federal government does procurement and does IT (information technology) is just generally not very efficient. (Wall Street Journal CEO Council, November 19, 2013)

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/11/19/obama...ding-a-website/

Too bad we don't have an effective opposition party in this country, otherwise there would be daily reminders about how Liberal govt' control is impossible because the govt' is fully incompetent on all levels.