President Obama acknowledged his frustration “with the technical problems that have hampered the online health-insurance marketplaces, but pledged that the issues would be resolved and the Affordable Care Act would prove successful,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Obama: “Nobody’s madder than me about the fact that the website isn’t working as well as it should, which means it’s going to get fixed… There’s no sugarcoating it.”

But the Washington Post notes Obama also admonished Republican critics saying that “it is time to stop rooting for the law’s failure.”

Wonk Wire: Obamacare exchanges were destined for failure

First Read: “In remarks on the health-care law from the White House at 11:25 am ET, the president will acknowledge the problems with the website and will discuss the efforts to fix it, per NBC’s Kristen Welker. He also will note the other ways uninsured Americans can apply for health-care coverage on the exchanges — through call centers or paper application. But here’s why this problem is potentially more than just a glitch: The law doesn’t work if not enough people, especially healthy young adults, are signing up for coverage.”

“The extra challenge for the White House is that they touted to reporters (both publicly and privately) how the website would work and that it would work as well as Apple, and now many of these same reporters feel burned or even lied to. And, of course, none of this should have been a surprise for Team Obama. It knew that Republicans were ready to pounce on any deficiency, real or imagined. Well, these problems are real.”

Time: “While Obama could probably continue to tell Americans that the Obamacare rollout is little more than an iPhone app in need of an update, his health care law actually needs uninsured people to choose to sign up or it will fail. And so the spin can no longer stand.”

Wonk Wire: Repairing Obamacare exchanges could take weeks.

“Not remotely, because the people I work for are the women and men and men you just saw. I work for 26 million Texans. That’s my job to fight for them. I don’t work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for the people of Texas and I fight for them.”

— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), in an interview on CNN, saying he’s not bothered by the anger from his Republican colleagues over his strategy to defund Obamacare.

Jeb Bush told ABC News that the Republican Party should stop trying to repeal Obamacare and just the law undermine itself.

Said Bush: “So have a little bit of self-restraint. It might actually be a politically better approach to see the massive dysfunction. But we don’t even hear about that, because we stepped on that message.”