Obama donor’s firm hired to fix Web mess it created

New York Post ^ | November 1, 2013 | S.A. Miller

[Leaning Right]

A tech firm linked to a campaign-donor crony of President Obama not only got the job to help build the federal health-insurance Web site — but also is getting paid to fix it.

[Leaning Right]

Anthony Welters is a top executive of QSSI, the firm hired to fix the Obamacare website. According to the New York Post, back in 2008 Welters gave the Obama campaign $100,000 of his own money, and helped bundle an additional $300,000.

Quite a coincidence that QSSI just happens to be the best company available to fix the broken website.

[Antihero101607]

Fix, or “Fix” the website?

[Steely Tom]

I thought Oracle was going to do it.

[stars & stripes forever]

The Administration does not want anyone to know what is in Obamacare and the ‘cookies’, etc. that are embedded in the computor program.

[Leaning Right]

I thought Oracle was going to do it.

I read something along those lines too. Perhaps there is more than one company involved. After all, there is plenty of money to go around.

It's accountability that is in short supply.

[alloysteel]

This just keeps getting cozier and cozier.

Crony “capitalism” (which is much more “crony” than “capitalist”) has become the order of the day.

Perhaps it should be called “crony extortionism”.

[Bernard]

At some point, competent people will have to be involved. And one of the first things those people will have to decide is if there is anything worth saving in all of that code, or it is better to start over again.

Given the complexity of what the software is supposed to do, patching a broken core will be very difficult.

[Tupelo]

Only in Washington.
First you 'donate' a gigantanormous (to us little people) amount of money to a politician's campaign, then you get a half a billion dollar contract to build some project or other. You build it with fatal flaws that only you can fix. Then your pet politician hires you at probably another half a billion to fix it.
Is this a great country or what?
Somewhere Chester A. Arthur is weeping.

[bigbob]

Next time the dog takes a crap in the living room, see how successful you are at getting him to clean it up ;-)

[Brandonmark]

Fix is the operative word!

[GOPJ]

Starting over might be faster...

[okie01]

Quite a coincidence that QSSI just happens to be the best company available to fix the broken website.

You overlooked one very important aspect: Anthony Welters is black.

[AD from SpringBay]

No warranty work? Did the first ‘team’ get paid for a site that doesn’t work? Why do our taxes have to pay for this thing twice?

[SeeSharp]

I thought Oracle was going to do it.

Is there anything Larry Ellison hasn't promised to do?

[Minutemen]

And we Americans will drop our drawers, Ben Dover and take some more.

[Steely Tom]

Well, Larry Klayman has quite a few “pending projects” too.

[Flick Lives]

Next time the dog takes a crap in the living room, see how successful you are at getting him to clean it up ;-)

Fixing the Obamacare website is analogous to trying to get the crap back in the dog.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Anthony Welters is black. “”

Read the article at the link but didn’t see that the black woman who went to college with Michelle O was the MRS. in this story and the reason the original firm was chosen to build the website - does anyone know?

[Thank You Rush]

Answered my own question - no, it’s not the same female.
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Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.

[MeshugeMikey]

but but I thought Obama was looking for "public Input"?