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HHS chief: Obama didn't know about HealthCare.gov bugs
UPI ^ | 10/23/13

Posted on 10/23/2013 3:01:42 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

... Obama did not know HealthCare.gov faced technical problems before it went live, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.

"I think it became clear" to Obama in "the first couple of days," she told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" Tuesday.

She answered, "No, sir" when asked if Obama knew about the malfunctions and misfires before the website's Oct. 1 start.

"I think that we talked about having testing going forward," she said of White House and HHS discussions before the site went public.

"If we had an ideal situation and could have built a product in a five-year period of time, we probably would have taken five years," she said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chaunceygardnerobama; deathpanels; dryruntestfailed; fail; obamainthedark; sebeliuslies; thebuckstopswhere; whoispresident
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To: Venturer
Why should Obama fire Sebelius.
She just fell on her sword for him.

There was a rumor she was returning to KS to run for Senator Pat Roberts' job. Highly unlikely IMHO but if there's even a chance she must be thoroughly destroyed!

21 posted on 10/23/2013 4:57:53 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: SoFloFreeper; Liz; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; ...
RE : WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) — President Obama did not know HealthCare.gov faced technical problems before it went live, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said.
“I think it became clear” to Obama in “the first couple of days,” she told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” Tuesday.
She answered, “No, sir” when asked if Obama knew about the malfunctions and misfires before the website’s Oct. 1 start.
“I think that we talked about having testing going forward,” she said of White House and HHS discussions before the site went public.

This sounds awfully familiar.
Once again Obama knew nothing about it and had his golf game interrupted when it came on the news that the website doesnt work.

Once again Obama is as frustrated as anyone about this.

Once again Obama is going to get to the bottom of it and find those responsible.

Once again his appointee whose reponsibility it was, Sebelius in this case, who claims she didnt tell him about it is protected by Obama.

22 posted on 10/23/2013 5:06:50 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Limbaugh theorem in action. Not his fault. Only He can fix it, right?


23 posted on 10/23/2013 5:07:43 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

It is becoming pretty clear that the video was the root of the problem

(every mornin’ Obama takes from his desk a paper. “This is your ass, that is a hole in the ground” he is reminded)


24 posted on 10/23/2013 5:12:38 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: All

"Carney hasn't told you yet---but I was recently diagnosed w/ 'transient global amnesia.'"

"But only on the subjects of Obamacare, Benghazi, and my golf score."

"I'm having an episode right now----relapsing back to
my days as a tuba player in my high school marching band.'

25 posted on 10/23/2013 5:14:35 AM PDT by Liz
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To: maxwellsmart_agent

I agree. It’s curious that he wouldn’t negotiate with the Pubbies during the gov’t slowdown on delaying Obummercare. Had he done so, most would never have known what a hugh and series flop it is. He could have come out smelling like a rose,so to speak. He also could have used it to his advantage in the next negotiations with the Pubbies - hey, I gave you the delay, now you need to give me xxx. That said, that’s IF the Pubbies would actually negotiate with him instead of giving him and Dingy Harry what they want.

OTOH, given ValJal is the shadow _resident, maybe The Won actually didn’t know (though I suspect he did). It’s CYA time for the Admin and we all know it.


26 posted on 10/23/2013 5:24:07 AM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: sickoflibs

I think it was the great Chuck Todd that set this meme up on a tee. He asked the hard-hitting question of the Carney the other day, “Is the President angry he was misled about this?”


27 posted on 10/23/2013 5:35:59 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
RE I think it was the great Chuck Todd that set this meme up on a tee. He asked the hard-hitting question of the Carney the other day, “Is the President angry he was misled about this?”

NBC’s Chuck Todd. He's been doing a mini-ad on MSNBC for a long while now that says ‘Its my job to demand answers from those in power. The American people deserve it”

Yes, that exchange was the highlight of the week.

28 posted on 10/23/2013 5:47:43 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: sickoflibs

You and I need to get together and form a “Corporation for Remembering Stuff,” because it seems nobody else is doing it. We’ll clean up.


29 posted on 10/23/2013 5:52:21 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
RE :”You and I need to get together and form a “Corporation for Remembering Stuff,” because it seems nobody else is doing it. We’ll clean up.”

Speaking of which, the standard ‘we lost the shutdown because that no good liberal media blamed us again’ post popped up here this morning and so I recalled a thread posted here Sept 25 where the American Thinker author was predicting ahead that the GOP ‘could win’ the shutdown fight against Obama because the media will side with them when they keep saying they want to compromise and Obama wont.
The Shutdown that Ruined Christmas? see #4

I marked that one in my memory at the time as ludicrous.

30 posted on 10/23/2013 6:02:01 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: Cyber Liberty

But the end of the question was pure theater “who let him down”? Let him down? They have spent a half a billion dollars of OUR MONEY on this clowns failed agenda, money just wiped away and Chuck Todd is worried about who let Obama down? It is so wrong on so many levels that it almost impossible to comprehend.


31 posted on 10/23/2013 6:10:23 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: Toespi

Hasn’t the “I’m Black so I’m not responsible for anything” card been played enough already? Clown Prince nobama, his minions, his enablers and his grifter family should all be in prison for their crimes against this Country and against our Freedoms.


32 posted on 10/23/2013 7:01:45 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: sickoflibs

I’m trying to imagine Patton publicly handling defeats this way.


33 posted on 10/23/2013 7:09:03 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Toespi

It makes perfect sense because Todd had to pull his nose out of Obastard’s fanny to pose the question. What cracked me up about the whole affair was how it was reported: “Reporter asks tough question of Jay Carney.” Yeah, really tough. “Who do you want to blame for this fiasco?”


34 posted on 10/23/2013 7:16:21 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (We're At That Awkward Stage: It's too late to vote them out, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: cuban leaf
RE :”I’m trying to imagine Patton publicly handling defeats this way.”

Just a minor setback.
All it proves is that demand and interest in Obamacare is so great that no one not even he the wise one Obama or Sebelius could have anticipated how popular and under demand it was. No server in the universe could handle that.

Its still a ‘good deal’ . Sign up fast before rates go down.

35 posted on 10/23/2013 7:17:57 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position)
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To: Liz

We need to strat VERY LOUDLY insisting on Congressional hearings on the $6 million non-functioning website.

Heads should roll and money should be refunded.

If we don’t demand, it won’t happen.


36 posted on 10/23/2013 7:19:38 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: SoFloFreeper

And congress has the same health care....right?


37 posted on 10/23/2013 7:20:46 AM PDT by jetson
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To: SoFloFreeper
Obama was clueless?
Who knew?
38 posted on 10/23/2013 8:14:27 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Seattle Conservative

This was just a catch phrase for those who aren’t really paying attention, those who listen to talking points and little cute sayings, and then they vote based on them.


39 posted on 10/23/2013 9:28:29 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: hal ogen

Don’t forget crimes against his own race for giving credibility to the typical stereotype of blacks.


40 posted on 10/23/2013 10:01:07 AM PDT by Toespi
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