President Barack Obama is suffering the worst season of his presidency because people are mad that critical parts of the Affordable Care Act are not working the way they are supposed to work.
The larger longer-term threat to his signature legislative achievement — and to his presidency generally — is different. It is the growing backlash over Obamacare working precisely the way it is supposed to work.
The broken HealthCare.gov website, while an excruciating embarrassment, is on the path to repair. If Amazon and the airlines can manage millions of transactions a day over the Web with ease, say experts, the federal government’s class of slow students surely will solve the problem in due course.