BILL O'REILLY: I think it's just theoretical, you know, it's this theoretical world that President Obama seems to live in and I'm becoming more and more concerned about that. And you say?



CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's also a rhetorical world, theory and rhetoric. It's like King Canute being urged by his worshipful acolytes to tell the tides to go backwards and at least Canute had the self-consciousness to tell them that can't be done. Obama thinks that he can repeal reality with rhetoric.



I mean, after all, the one thing he can really do well is campaign. That's undeniable. He is one of the great campaigners in American history. He twice won the presidency. His trouble is he has trouble governing. And here he is faced with a management problem, a government problem. He passed a bill that is so complex -- the regulations are so complex and contradictory -- he has got a web site that's not functioning correctly and he thinks that if he makes the right speeches, he says the right words, somehow it will change perception. But here he runs up against the wall.



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KRAUTHAMMER: In order for this to be a triumph for him, what he thinks it is, he has to get the website actually working. The most that it can handle 50,000 people is pathetic. Amazon handles over a million every hour. Even that, people are put on hold, have to wait for half a day to get on. Second, we heard from the people who built the site that it is absolutely insecure. There is no secure information on it.



And the worst part is, the worst part is the information getting from the website to the insurers. I mean, The Washington Post reported today that 1 out of every 3 people who think they have signed up have incorrect information, corrupted information that's going to arrive at the insurers or no information at all. So they are going to show up at a doctor's office on January 1, there will be no record of any insurance, or there is going to be a record and it will be completely wrong. And that's another reality that you can't undo with rhetoric.



So he can say all he wants, but, unless the reality is changed and it requires all these elements all these mistakes and problems to be undone and fixed sequentially and in time, which I think is highly improbable, unless that happens, this does turn into a fiasco. Democrats and the Congress know this and they are running away from Obamacare as fast as their feet will take them.