Blame. Evade. Demagogue. Repeat.

"Dismissing the extent of the problem and reminding voters that Republicans fought the law -- which is essentially all Obama did in his Rose Garden remarks -- is a deflection, which shouldn't be confused with implementation or governing."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/why-obama-should-be-freaked-out-over-obamacare-20131021

In one sense, President Obama is absolutely right. Republicans DID oppose Obamacare, of course, but for a litany of reasons that were expressed over and over again since 2009.

Rather than treating those reasons - concern about unintended consequences of the new regulations on premiums, existing plans, and business decisions, and the potentially staggering costs of creating a new entitlement program in the midst of an out of control debt situation (fueled by existing unsustainable entitlement programs) - as potentially legitimate, principled concerns, the President chose instead to demagogue the Republicans (and the Tea Party grassroots movement) as obstructionist, uncaring reactionary elitists.

The President had an opportunity to address a real problem - uninsured Americans, a flawed market for health care, and an out of control health care costs- in a constructive way and chose to continue the pure partisanship and arrogance that characterized his approach to passing the economic Stimulus.

As Fournier writes, the web site is the easy part of this whole thing. The real problems behind Obamacare - dependence on the individual mandate to force the "invincibles" to sign up en masse for health insurance and subsidize universal coverage, skyrocketing premiums, transformation of the plans available to the currently insured, the natural (and predictable) response of businesses to new requirements with regards to hiring, hours, and provision of plans, and, last but not least, the growing costs to government and impact on quality of care (did i forget anything? - are still simmering beneath the surface and demagoguery, blaming, and evasion will not solve them.

But unfortunately those may be the only tools this President knows how to use.