far to try to defend her, but internally there was a lot of concern and confusion. yeah, look, here s the target, you can t say she s not an i.t. person, not writing the code, which is totally fair to absolve her as blame and valerie jarrett just on your show and president did earlier today, kathleen sebelius deserves a massive amount of credit for the 7.1 enrollees. s either one or the other. you get the credit and blame neither the credit nor the blame. she is as ruth said and rightly, no of course she wasn t in there typing in the code and figuring out why healthcare.gov doesn t work. but she is the person who s the public face of it. if it had gone swimmingly from the start, she would have gotten credit for it going swimmingly from the start. that s how it works. you don t get to get all of the credit and none of the blame. that s her legacy in this job.
the rub the the rollout can t be flekted when it happens. there is a piece quoting him after every meeting this is well and good but if healthcare.gov doesn t work, we re wasted. everybody is frustrated the website doesn t work. hopefully it will work by the end of november. we should recognize there are people around the country and states that have signed up. 150,000 people around the country. people with leading on the extension. there are people benefits from the law now. it is inexcusable that the website isn t working. we can work on it. newt, is it the website, it s terrible there are pieces people did not know even existed.
the entire linchpin of healthcare.gov doesn t work. that s why these numbers you are citing doesn t necessarily work. steve hayes says this goes beyond the numbers for the administration. listen. this has moved from a theoretical debate over the past three years to real numbers where people are doing real math. i mean, people are getting these letters. these are not made up things. people who have household budgets are trying to find a way to make this work. and the problem for the administration is they can spin it and jay carney can refuse to geoff i. give out the enrollment numbers and they can play games with the timing of some of this but it doesn t matter. ultimately the numbers are what they are. meanwhile democrats running for re-election are upset and nervous about this as rightly they should be. they held a closed door meeting. they are concerned that this goes beyond just the web site problems. but there are real structural issues with obama care. and they are having to
there s a ton of security problems with this site. giesht a news flash for you. healthcare.gov doesn t work. the government works for us. we might want to know why and when they knew it doesn t work. okay. i keep hearing healthcare.gov doesn t work, but i already know that and so does everybody else. exactly. i know that s where it works. you know, somebody get darrell issa becaua pointing ha because he s on a witch hunt for halloween. that s what they do, these massive data dumps. look. kathleen sebelius has been cooperative. part of the point here is to delay them from actually doing delag hhs from actually doing the work to implement obama care by making them comply with all the paper dumps. asa did that with all of the local navigators. hey, sally. you know how politics work. you re one of the smartest people in the business.