Kimmel blasts Obama’s O-Care defense

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday poked fun at President Obama and his defense of the rocky rollout of his signature healthcare legislature.

Obama said Tuesday that he will devote the rest of his second term to get the Affordable Care Act working if necessary, but Kimmel interpreted the message a bit differently.

{mosads}”He said the whole thing is a disaster and he’s sorry he even tried,” Kimmel joked.

The late night star said he was amazed at the number of speeches Obama has given on ObamaCare, and that it actually might exceed the number of people actually enrolled in it.

Despite Obama’s promise that HealthCare.gov will eventually run smoothly, Kimmel cast doubt over the statement and wondered why heavy Web traffic caused the site to crash.

“Why is it that only 50,000 people can use a government website without crashing it, but 4 million people can watch a kitten try and get its head out of a potato chip bag with no problem at all?” he said.

Kimmel also joked that those who have successfully navigated the flawed website accidentally signed up for the Navy and that they will be deployed next week.

Turning his attention to Congress, Kimmel bashed both sides of the aisle for their inability to work together to pass laws.

Kimmel noted that Congress has only passed 55 laws, which is less than the previous Congressional record in modern history of only 88 laws passed in 1995.

“Maybe we just have all the laws we need, maybe we don’t need anymore laws,” Kimmel said.

Saying that he is an optimist, Kimmel said he prefers to view the 113th Congress as the most unproductive in history, rather than the least productive.

But the divided lawmakers deserve some praise, according to Kimmel. He noted that Congress approved a grant for the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota to include additional parking space.

“I’d say it was a pretty productive year,” Kimmel joked. “Maybe we should move to Canada.”