The only trainwreck currently occuring is inside the GOP. In a few short months the federal website will be running just fine and then what will the GOP be complaining about? Not sure, but they will find something, maybe that there isn’t an online billing option, or that they don’t like the accents of the call-center agents speaking 150 different languages.
Daily Kos: Republicans pretend to care about people who can’t get health insurance
Seriously, these reports and media mouthpieces need to just go look up the definition of disaster in the dictionary. Hurricane Katrina was a disaster. The federal website rollout is an e-commerce fiasco. One was based on uncontrollable climatic conditions, resulting in significant property damage and loss of life. The other was based on shifting and probably contradictory requirements (scope creep), lack of sufficient time to develop and test and a vast misinformation campaign designed to spread falsehoods and influence expectations. Nobody dies during an IT glitch.