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You took to the pen and paper and said, for gods sake, lets be patient. is that in the medicare vein? because that was a disaster too. and it turned out it worked out pretty well. >> 2006, medicare part d, the implementation was horrible. it was john boehner, im paraphrasing here, who said something like its a really good law and mang the market work better. the implementation is bad and we have to fix it. republicans were much more patient, and by the way the democrats helped with the implement...

Scratch. it seems like theres a larger issue of the way the major tech projects are undertaken at the federal government level. why do so many of these projects fail or have major issues? >> i think we can look at each of them individually and the one im most familiar with will be the one i led and also i studied this one closely. many of the problems that exist today can be attributed to the fact that there was quite a delay in creating the regulations that were required for the vendors to have...

If kathleen sebelius is forced to resign, thats going to make any difference in how quickly if at all this website and structural problems are fixed, and if the issue is accountability, which is a perfectly reasonable way to get rid of cabinet officers say in other countries, how often do cabinet officers get sacked for accountability and how often is this the occasion for whichever partys not in power in the white house to drag a cabinet member or some other poor official up to the congressiona...

What i was struck by with the hearing in the commerce committee yesterday was that with the exception of fred upton whos the chair who asked constructive questions, what you expect in an oversight hearing, how can we make this work, a lot of it -- it reminded me of somebody who shot his neighbor and then said, im going to run the inquest into the murder. the republicans who had done whatever they could to keep this law from being implemented, screaming about the implementation, but nothing on ho...

Take care of the elderly people? could mike have a point? >> by your own admission. i go back to my earlier statement, i dont think the metrics have been in, conservatives like mike here want to declare it dead and not working. lets separate between that policy itself from implementation and the website failures. >> let me do anal gi heogy here. when people want to buy an apple product they line up for hours. >> that is because the apple website works. >> it is a known quantity. this is going to...

Really did as legislators tried to fix the program, make sure it worked, communicate accurately to their constituents. do you think we will see that from republican lawmakers as we go forward? >> well, you know, i hope so, because in the final analysis, we have to make the law work. and that, obviously, is going to be the responsibility and the obligation of members of congress, as it is to conduct obviously this oversight, to get to the heart of the matter in terms of what was underlined the im...

Gone to the wrong school at harvard. instead of going law school he should have spent more time at the kennedy school. 90% of life is execution and implementation. the idea something this big is so poorly prepared. all the effort went into design than implementation. >> how does that communication of not being prepared does not get to the commander-in-chief? >> thats, you know, thats been a question that theyve not answered very well. they simply say some of these things couldnt be tested. they ...

Political analyst, gloria borger, our chief national correspondent, john king and our chief political correspondent, candy crowley, the anchor of cnns "state of the union." ten, not nine, ten democratic senators, some of whom are very close to the president, they wrote a letter to sebelius today saying, among other things, as long as these substantial technology glitches persist, we are losing valuable time to educate and enroll people in insurance plans. our constituents are frustrated. allowin...

Group therapy with bob. >> it depends on your insurance. >> charles, we have 20 minutes left. >> my question is, when we were talking about the republicans looking at obama care and the website glitches, do you think theres too much focus on the actual website and not enough on the law or one in the same? >> no. i think there is not too much emphasis. republica republicans ought to jump on the roll out, the disaster. right now hit it hard. it isnt as if you have to choose the disaster now and th...

Relatively few people were traying to access it. in the meantime a bipartisan calls to delay the implementation of obama care continue to grow. ainsley? >> doug luzader live in washington. thanks doug. have a great weekend. >> thanks, you, too. >> now it is time to take a look at who is talking. we are hearing from a woman hired as an operator to answer questions about obama care. you can call the 1800 number. she spoke to our own sean hannity earlier in the week on his radio show and the next d...