In politics, bad gets worse. I fear that America’s enemies and competitors, who are always looking for signs of a distracted America, see a new weakness in the Obamacare fiasco. The White House does not seem to be dealing with any problems in a forthright way.

Well, Team Obama can stonewall for a while, but House Republicans have already sent a letter to Sebelius asking for precise information about how the Obamacare Web site design was so badly botched and what steps have been taken to fix the problems.

By the way, information technology specialists and chief technology officers seem to agree that there is no reason the Obamacare Web site should have been such a disaster. As one chief technology officer told The Post, “I think that any modern Web company would be well prepared for a launch of this scale. We’re not talking about hundreds of millions of people and we’re not talking about complex transactions.” As Forbes columnist Avik Roy points out, the HHS should have been able to “anticipate the need to build a system that can handle the average daily traffic of the Drudge Report.”

Shopping online is not new. There are a lot of templates already in place, from travel Web sites to online retailers. If the Obama administration had just admitted it needed a one-year delay in the individual mandate, perhaps it could have avoided this whole situation.