Given how bad government has worked in this area, I have no problem with this outside of the clunky phrasing. The baffling thing here boils down to a simple idea: if government isn't efficient, why not work to make it efficient. This isn't an area that is subject to congressional obstruction, it's an issue of management and bureaucracy. In the website's case, they knew it wasn't working months ago yet no alarms went off.
Government does a lot of things well, most of which it doesn't get credit for. Which makes failures like this more frustrating, and more visible. I don't want to hear a president sounding like some powerless spectator as he laments how poorly government has handled IT for decades. Get better at it, and stop wasting money.
Edit: also can you imagine how hands on Clinton would have been with something like this? He's no IT guy obviously, but I'd imagine he would be deeply invested in receiving progress reports and general information updates on something this big and "geeky." I get the impression Obama didn't have any involvement or knowledge of the site's problems until the last minute. From the never ending loyalty in bad/ineffective people to poor oversight, I really get a crony corporation vibe from this administration.
