GOPers Upset Shutdown Is Eclipsing Coverage Of Glitchy Obamacare Launch

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the Affordable Care Act, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md. The president is promoting the benefits of his health care law ... President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the Affordable Care Act, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md. The president is promoting the benefits of his health care law before new insurance exchanges open for business next week. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) MORE LESS
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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.

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:

Fox News radio host Todd Starnes was also not impressed: 

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