Posted on 10/22/2013 8:35:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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"..........Some of the president’s most powerful friends on the Hill are now signaling to rank-and-file Democrats that it’s OK to be as critical of the rollout as Obama has been. “What has happened is unacceptable in terms of the glitches,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin of Illinois gave another important signal of Democratic restiveness, declaring on “Fox News Sunday” that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would ultimately have to appear before Congress to answer a welter of unfriendly questions from both sides about the false start. (On Monday she said she would appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but not as soon as the panel’s GOP majority wants.)
Republicans, by contrast, remain as unified as ever in deriding the law as flawed beyond saving — even as they labor to repair the rift over whether their shutdown strategy to defund the law was a fool’s errand and strive to avoid a new civil war about when, if ever, to take another run at repeal. Many are lamenting that, in hindsight, they would have been better off waiting to pursue their undermine-Obamacare strategy after the website’s flaws had been exposed. Of course, the widespread publicity of those flaws didn’t start until after Congress ended the government shutdown and took a debt default off the table.
Republicans are for now able to claim credibly that spending $400 million and coming up with an interface much worse than an average e-commerce website is evidence the Obama administration is some combination of incompetent and spendthrift. The party’s next challenge is to decide how to frame the snafu as illuminating problems that will remain even after the Big Reboot.
Two lines of attack surfaced this week.
“The website does serve as stark evidence that the federal government is ill-equipped to centrally manage our nation’s health care,” declared House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia.
“The president is right: This law is more than a website that won’t work,” said GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. “It’s a Washington mandate that many Americans are finding impossible, and it’s an historic mistake that is raising premiums, forcing employees off insurance plans, increasing out-of-pocket costs and pushing employers to cut jobs and hours.”
Combine those sentiments into one even simpler campaign slogan, and the GOP could win this battle yet.
They keep calling these ‘glitches’
That’s like saying the Titanic passengers “got a little moist”
This is just a registration function!
Obamaware EPIC fail!
Obama talks as if he is a mere spectator to Obamacare, almost like he was out for a morning stroll and just happened to come upon a train wreck. Same goes for Pelosi, etc.
It is simply amazing. Any country with an independent press would be having a field day with this.
"We ultimately, of course, hold PresidentAssadØbama responsible for theuse of chemical weaponsdesign of the website by his regime against his own people, regardless of where the command and control lies," [Spokesclown Marie] Harf said.
Now that the crisis has been created (obamacare signup failure), MORE MONEY will flow to fix the problem.
Seems like that might have been the goal all along. MORE MONEY.
$600 BILLION already spent.
F.R. works. Didn’t cost $600 Billion. I wonder what they did different (considering the templates for everything imaginable already exist) ?
Heck, you design your own website for FREE at various places on the web.
it irks me to no end that Cantor and Alexander have anything at all to say about this... blaming the President, yet giving him whatever he wants... talking out of both sides...
It is very common for a company to promise to have it finished by a certain date, but there are really two dates - the one in which the writing is finished and the one where the bugs are all worked out of the system.
Obama thinks that writing software is magic and that it just works when it is written. And when you hook it up it will automatically work and get people signed up.
The building of his marxist utopia is a lot more work than I think he thought it would be.
The scary part is that personal and sensitive information is being collected and if not secure could be a serious problem.
Me too.
Well, well, well. Whatdayouknow.
ROTFLMAO!!!
Perfect analogy.
And you’re fined if you don’t get it off their lot.
Oh, yeah... Obama doesn’t hold Cabinet meetings.
-PJ
A review of internal architectural diagrams obtained by the AP revealed the system's complexity. Insurance applicants have a host of personal information verified, including income and immigration status. The system connects to other federal computer networks, including ones at the Social Security Administration, IRS, Veterans Administration, Office of Personnel Management and the Peace Corps.".......... Insiders who worked on US health website describe high stress, complaints about major problems
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