That last one was Representative Olson again.

It is very possible that you missed this hearing. Perhaps you were at work. Perhaps you have taken a vow never to listen to any discussion in which the word “functionality” is used on a regular basis.

The bottom line is that the start-up was terrible. We’re just going to wait and see how well the administration does in fixing things. White House officials have promised to bring in “the best and brightest,” which is encouraging unless you are old enough to remember that “the best and the brightest” was what they called the guys who gave us the war in Vietnam.

In the meantime, keep things simple and just find somebody to blame. A few suggestions:

Canada

The major contractor on the Web job was CGI Federal, which is a subsidiary of a Canadian company. Perhaps this is all a Canadian plot. Perhaps the Canadians were jealous that the United States was on the verge of creating a health care system so much more exciting than their own single-payer version. Remember, these are the exact same people who sent us Justin Bieber.

Kathleen Sebelius

This is an extremely popular option. Fire the secretary of health and human services. The Republican National Committee has a petition drive demanding that Secretary Sebelius be canned. Democrats are less enthusiastic, but a lot of them feel that President Obama should fire somebody and really, it’s not going to be the secretary of agriculture.

Also, Secretary Sebelius has a family vacation home in northern Michigan. You can probably see Canada from her house.

Technology

Younger people are shocked that the Obama White House, which is supposed to be so technologically savvy, can’t manage a Web site rollout. They express this opinion through multiple devices that are seamlessly interlinked to one another, and to their friends’ multiple devices, and their friends’ friends’.