If a site cant stand up to simple DDOS attacks its still a problem.
Dems, you don't need excuses, just wait. If it all fails you have the "we had to compromise, that's why it failed" excuse to fall back on. Don't worry so much about this.
The California site is working out quite nicely. If most states had done the responsible, mature thing and set up their own exchanges and websites the way they wanted, they wouldn't have their citizens having to use the federal exchange website. You can't forfeit an opportunity to do something yourself and then complain when the federal government doesn't do as good a job as you wanted.
I guess Idaho decided they'd rather be the ones running things than the feds. But most Republican states decided to just make things as difficult as possible.
