Republicans are frustrated that the media’s coverage of congressional fights over the government shutdown and debt ceiling is eclipsing a week’s worth of bad press about the glitchy rollout of Obamacare.
Speaking for over an hour from the White House press briefing room on Monday, President Barack Obama took almost a dozen questions from various reporters — and none of them were about the problems Americans have experienced signing up for health care exchanges online.
“Explain to me how in a dozen questions the second biggest story of the week, the healthcare.gov debacle, doesn’t even come up,” Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), asked Politico.
Hey, guys, nobody ask about Obamacare’s launch, okay?
— Brendan Buck (@Brendan_Buck) October 8, 2013
Obamacare? Anyone? ANYONE?
— Brendan Buck (@Brendan_Buck) October 8, 2013
Rory Cooper, a top aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), also sounded off on Twitter, noting a Daily Show appearance by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius:
You know who asked some tough questions about Obamacare? Comedy Central.
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) October 8, 2013
Fox News radio host Todd Starnes was also not impressed:
Not a single question about Obamacare. Not one.
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) October 8, 2013
