Posted on 10/24/2013 12:04:56 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Obamacare recriminations are underway. Stuck with an unpopular law whose launch has been an unmitigated disaster, the Democratic Party has morphed from a ruthless, unified political machine to a frantic, zig-zagging tornado of blame. The White House would like you to know that the Department of Health and Human Services was chiefly responsible for the implementation process. HHS counters that the White House ultimately runs the show, and that Sec. Kathleen Sebelius' hands were effectively tied by her relative lack of power. Some Democrats are blaming the private sector contractors who were brought in to help craft healthcare.gov (conveniently ignoring the facts that the Obama administration hand-selected each contractor, and that the administration foolishly chose to appoint itself head contractor). Not so fast, say the private sector firms, refusing to be scapegoated. Indeed, at Congressional hearings today, representatives from one such company swore an oath to tell the truth, then proceeded to lay waste to the White House's blame shift:
CGI "It is not our job to tell our client whether to go live or not." Look, who am I to tell someone they shouldn't jump off a cliff? — Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) October 24, 2013
Upton asks for a show of hands if it was ever an option to delay having http://t.co/V9tYrcln9u go live. No hands go up. — Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) October 24, 2013
CGI confirms WaPo report that system locked up after midnight of launch after a few thousand users tried to access it. — Philip Klein (@philipaklein) October 24, 2013
Industry standard for end to end testing is months, witnesses at ACA hearing say. CMS decided to spend 2 weeks on it. — Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) October 24, 2013
Dean: Republicans to Blame for Botched Obamacare Rollout
Please be bipartisan and helpful.That way when this blows up, we can blame you for being involved in our stupid idea.
Thank-you,
Senate Leftards
It’s gonna stick too. Watch and see. In a year, the Republicans will be apologizing.
Dumb, uninformed, ignorant constituency + lying complicit media.
Didn't you get the memo? LOL!
You mean the program that they claimed would be a failure and never wanted to enact in the first place, and which none or maybe 1 of them (Cao?) voted for? It's those guys' fault it didn't work??
Democrats are ruthless. I expect they will turn viciously on the private companies and free-market health insurance in spite of all the money they received from them. Most of the no-nothing voters will accept this because everyone has had problems with insurance companies.
democrats are all evil hard core communists/socialists.
the democrat party has controlled the news media for the last 100 years. and the media is the most powerful branch of government.
this cabal of evil totally controlling the USA is called the democrat party. the head of the snake is Obama
The enemy of the American people is the democrat party. The democrat party controls
1. the news media
2. hollwywood
3. the presidency
4. The senate
5. the gov bureaucracies
5. the unions
7. the universities
8. the schools
9. soros , Lewis,zuckerberg, msny other billionaires are democrats.
10. Obama the main tyrant is a democrat
11. silicon valley, Google etc. are democrats
12. Pelosi, REid, fienstein, Shumer, Durbin , Lois lerner r democrats
13 . the rest of the media
14. IRS , EPA, DHS, HHS, TSA, FBI, etc.
15. liberals control the supreme Court( they approved Obamacare)
15 . Democrats control all the political money .Soros, tides foundation,gov grants,Zuckerberg,Lewis (another billionaire. moveon.org,unions etc.
16.lawyers
17.AARP
18. NEA, AFLCIO, etc.
Democrat party controls all this and more
Democrats want to makes slaves of all Americans, turn us into cattle with less rights than a cow or farm chicken for them to manipulate.
yes the news media say everything bad is the Republicans’ fault. after they pass amnesty there will be only 3 congressmen left who call themselves Republicans. the news media will blame these 3 men for every problem in the world.
yet the news media blames Republicans
and the sheep believe the media
this Obamacare is the worst piece of socialism ever. even in socialist-lite countries like Sweden , England , Canada etc. there are private healthcare options. there are so many mandates in 3000 pages of Obama care law and 15,000 pages of Obamacare government regulations that this will be the most socialist, and most controlled healthcare in the world in the USA.
Stalinists are never wrong. So, when their 5 year plan goes awry, it must be someone else’s fault.
They're called "Kulaks."
Two whole weeks? No time set aside for bug fixes and additional code drops? Did they think their code was going to be perfect, right out of the box?
Unfortunately, to make a deadline, the Testing Phase is usually the part that gets cut.
They wanted shovel-ready code, and they got shovel-worthy.
ROTFL! How've you been, Buggman?
With a straight face, “they (Democrats) were willing to just say lets just roll it out and see how it works”?
Was that suppose to be a joke? A sick joke? How does a Moron get on Fox?
Now the Democrats led the fight to oppose defunding! So Juan is saying they were aware of this disaster all along?
Well Ted Cruz looking better every day!
Soooo, odumbo crapped “HIS” pants...and he is blaming Ted Cruze. Got it. Not responsible for anything...
I wonder if they'll have a lady in turn-of-the-last-century costume come out and flip the card over for the next Dem speaker ala vaudeville.
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