you re going to try and sign up for obama care. and we ll see which happens first. [ laughter ] how many have signed up thus far? fully enrolled? i can t tell you. because i don t know. we are taking applications on the web, on the phone, we ll be giving monthly reports. but i can tell you we ve had not only lots of web hits, hundreds of thousands of accounts created. so it s hundreds of thousands of people have signed up. of accounts created, which means that then they re going to go shopping. what? this is like a kayak site. can you run it okay? we will. the v.a. s got huge problems. i m concerned. we re not running the insurance programs. you re just running the enrollment. that s right. the chief technology officer says the website was built to handle about 50,000 visitors simultaneously, but 250,000 users tried to access the site during peak traffic. his quote, these bugs were functions of volume, take away the volume, and it works.
the democrats and estimate have had a budget. republicans had a budget. the republicans refused for a year to sit down- the reason why, i was explaining, democrats were demanding the debt ceiling be automatically raised in any sort of deal. republicans said, no, we re not going to agree to that. we think we should live more within our means and there are more spending cuts to be made. before we run out of time, we have to show this clip from last night. the whole reason we re talking about this in the first place, we haven t gotten to it is obamacare. it s been a week since the website has been up. it s not going swimmingly. u usa today called it incompetent. secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius did something brave last night and went on the jon stewart show. she got quite a grilling. how many have signed up thus far? fully enrolled. i can t tell you because i don t know. i can tell you we ve had not only lots of web hits, hundreds of thousands of accounts
because i don t know. we are taking applications on the web, on the phone, we ll be giving monthly reports. but i can tell you we ve had not only lots of web hits, hundred wills of thousands of accounts created. we have so hundreds of thousands of people have signed up. of accounts created. which means then they will go shopping. still can t answer how many people have signed up and the glitches, and local news reports all over the place. i saw one today a reporter in georgia spent all day trying to get someone to sign up. one of the political ironies of all of this by the way is that the house republicans who started all this by trying to defund obama care and say that you have to defund obama care or we re not going to fund the government, it was more limited at the end of the day, but that s their ultimate goal, they won t even support a deal between boehner and the president that is entitlement cuts and spending cuts. they re not even going to be part of this deal if it c
nfl season after four-month labor lockout between players and owners, well, a key vote could break the stalemate. and we re also learning this. tiger woods fires his long time caddie steve williams and guess what? he speaks out about the abrupt move. we will hear from the caddie in just five minutes. millions of pro football fans are hoping today, well, that it will be the day the nfl s labor lockout will end. players and owners expected to vote on a deal that will hopefully say the 2011 season. david mattingly is live in atlanta where the negotiations are going on. what is the word, david? reporter: kyra, everyone watching and waiting so far. the players ended yesterday without having a final vote. if they vote today, it will take at least half of the players voting yes for the collective bargaining agreement. then all eyes will be here on atlanta where the owners will be meeting about an hour from now. it will take 75% of those owners, that is 24 out of the 32, to ratif
department job but it really wasn t a state department job. he brought him in to run a newspaper, a partisan newspaper that would fight the federalists. and in was a guy who also hit another senator with a cane. you know, we don t have that on the senate floor. in those days they didn t have facebook. so you couldn t have sarah palin saying she s going to refudiate what the media says. and the journalists love when she goes after us because it gives you more ratings, more web hits. it s a both sides benefit. howie, i think part of this what s really dangerous is we have a really troubled and frightened country. people are scared. people are angry. then we have this level of politicians here who are playing to the anger. and now you have the media playing to that anger. and it s impossible to have a rational discussion about our problems and work our way out of them. it s like a hat trick. we got the three of them, and we re in big trouble. here s the reason, is that not only