“The rocky rollout of the Affordable Care Act again came under sharp criticism Wednesday, three weeks into the launch, but this time some of the loudest voices were among top Democrats, including President Obama’s closest allies,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

Wonk Wire: Individual mandate gets a tweak.

“Emboldened by the intense public criticism surrounding the rollout of the online insurance exchange, Republicans in Congress are refocusing their efforts from denying funds for the health care law to investigating it,” the New York Times reports.

“In changing tactics, Republicans hope to tamp down the continuing public criticism of their previously fruitless attack on the Affordable Care Act, one that led to a 16-day government shutdown, by focusing on the problems with the law that they say they have warned the nation about, unheeded, for three years.”

Politico: “Two different tactics are on display: In the House, the approach is to be meek; in the Senate, it’s to be muscular.”

“I don’t even buy into the idea that we lost the election because of health care. One of the most damaging votes that our members had to take was the
TARP. The Democrats were the one who
saved the day with that vote, and people never really got over that
vote.”

— House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), quoted by the Washington Post, on the 2010 midterm elections;

First Read: “Combining the two biggest political stories over the past week, we have
this question: What has been the more significant disaster — the
problems associated with the federal Obamacare website, or the state of
the Republican Party after the shutdown? There is one important
difference between the two stories. While the Obama administration is
throwing every resource to fix its website issue, is anyone inside the
GOP trying to prevent an all-out ideological civil war from breaking
out? In fact, it seems to be just the opposite: Gas is being thrown on
the internal GOP fire.”