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October 09, 2013

CBS' Jan Crawford: Obama Rollout "Nothing Short of Disastrous"
— Ace

From Tami. Jan Crawford is one of the few reporters in the media who calls things as they are, without prejudice or favor.

This is a tough report. Tough, but honest. Look below the fold for it.

The White House has been warned for months that the system was nowhere near ready.

But they don't listen to facts. They make decisions based upon their partisan hopes and ideological dreams. The thing will work, because it must work, because the Cause of the Left is noble and good, and because the left's strange gods will come in at night, like socialist elves, to cobble the Administration's code together.

Major insurers, state health-care officials and Democratic allies repeatedly warned the Obama administration in recent months that the new federal health-insurance exchange had significant problems, according to people familiar with the conversations.
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Two allies of the administration, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the controversy surrounding the rollout, said they approached White House officials this year to raise concerns that the federal exchange was not ready to launch. In both cases, Obama officials assured them there was no cause for alarm.
Robert Laszewski, a health-care consultant with clients in the insurance industry, said insurers were complaining loudly that the site, www.healthcare.gov, was not working smoothly during frequent teleconferences with officials at the Department of Health and Human Services before the exchangeÂ’s launch and afterward. Â“People were pulling out their hair,Â” he said.

The left likes to flatter itself as thinking in terms of reason, facts, expertise, openness to doubt, and scorn of dogma and magical thinking.

Is this anywhere close to true?

When experts told the Obama Administration it was a fact the website was not ready, did they take seriously this advisement?

Nope! They simply said there was no cause for alarm; the strange gods of the left would just sort everything out.

Oddly enough, they didn't.

Meanwhile, Sheila Jackson Lee knows how to end this shutdown.

That's right, you guessed it -- by the declaration of martial law.

Posted by: Ace at 02:47 PM | Comments (243)
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1 CBS -- The least worst of the Big Three.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 02:49 PM (wNF3N)

2 I'm kinda jealous now --I want my own Strange Gods. Why does the left get all the good stuff?

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 02:50 PM (+cx5n)

3 As for Socialist Elves, however -- those just give me the willies.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 02:51 PM (+cx5n)

I'd suggest that Sheila Jackson Lee seriously re-think that proposal, but she's too goddamned stupid to reason out how declaring martial law might affect her personally.

Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2013 02:51 PM (HzhBE)

5 Martial Law. Who they gonna call on to enforce that? The park rangers?

Posted by: mama winger at October 09, 2013 02:52 PM (P6QsQ)

6 SJL should hook up with Hank Johnson; I'd like to see the world tip over from the sheer weight of stupidity.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 02:53 PM (wNF3N)

7 Levin is on fire. Some douche GOP senator.

Posted by: nip at October 09, 2013 02:53 PM (jI23+)

8 The MSM is constantly testing the wind so they can get out in front and produce news reports that they think will attract the most viewers because the report reflects the public mood. Thus, the very fact that a Big Three network even aired this report means that their "internal polling" and "rumor-o-meter" is already registering a nationwide grumpiness and mockery of the rollout. In other words - our narrative is winning. WINNING, I tell you.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 02:53 PM (+cx5n)

Martial Law

Yep, go ahead. That will really raise our trust in the government.

Posted by: rd at October 09, 2013 02:54 PM (D+lxs)

10 7 Levin is on fire. Some douche GOP senator. Posted by: nip at October 09, 2013 06:53 PM (jI23+) missy graham?

Posted by: BignJames at October 09, 2013 02:55 PM (ZNQKl)

11 Luke Chung, enjoy your IRS audit.

Posted by: AndrewsDad at October 09, 2013 02:55 PM (C2//T)

12 Of course, martial law is exactly what they want. Sheila Jacksonlee is just the only one (at this time) stupid enough to say it out loud.

Posted by: EROWMER at October 09, 2013 02:55 PM (OONaw)

The Left believes in the Deux Ex Machina ....

In Medieval plays, there would be a number of horrible problems throughout the play... but at the end, a Godlike Great Voice would come in from offstage, and make everything OK.... this device was called the Great Machine...

Its like the Debt... there is NO way we can ever get out of debt... there is no plan... yet they continue to pile on MORE debt... hoping some miracle will come and save them....

But reality does not work that way.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 09, 2013 02:55 PM (lZBBB)

14 And you know what? I bet SJL has kids. Prob more than average. The stupid always do.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at October 09, 2013 02:55 PM (GEICT)

15 Boehner had a good point about this: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday criticized the first week of ObamaCare as a system that threatens to fine people for failing to buy health insurance on websites that don't work.   Â“How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?Â” he asked on the House floor. http://thehill.com/video/in-the-news/327565- boehner-bashes-obamacare-after-other-gops- sidestep-it ************* Obama has unilaterally given exemptions and/or extensions to businesses --because a year was not long enough for them to comply with the employee mandate-. Now--how in the hell can the Obama Administration justify making individuals comply with the individual mandate and pay the penalty when it is near impossible to by the product? They have to at the very least delay the individual mandate due to their Democrat incompetence. They brought it on themselves.

Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 02:55 PM (r2PLg)

16 Marshall Law would be a cool western themed hobo-killin' comic book character.

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at October 09, 2013 02:55 PM (6WVi+)

17 Martial law? That should go well. You fire the first shot, Sheila.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (lVPtV)

18 Thing is, they know the "experts" in other fields, such as climate science, are completely full of crap, so they figure, these experts are equally as ignorant. Plus they probably figure that as long as they tell the public that everything is fine and the media go along, then the mass of people will be tricked into believing them, just like global warming.

Posted by: BuckIV at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (gedHR)

Levin is on fire. Some douche GOP senator.

Ron Johnson.

Posted by: Infidel at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (O/fK8)

20 Socialist Elves should stick to what they're good at, cobbling together Hydox.

Posted by: mugiwara at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (hpYnL)

21 I am concerned that if too many applicants go to the Obamacare website, it might tip over into cyberspace.

Posted by: Hank Johnson, D-Smartsville at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (HzhBE)

22 I wonder how many Obamaphones are in Sheila's district?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (lVPtV)

23 I told you they msm would start turning on Obama when he did things that they were unable to cover up.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (g1DWB)

24 with the individual mandate and pay the penalty when it is near impossible to ^buy^ the product?

Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (r2PLg)

25 A steely-eyed, hard-drinking bastard.

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (6WVi+)

26 Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee should be sitting in a holding cell for a few hours -- martial law? Between her and Reid's lie or stupidity on the Power of the Purse, is it any wonder our government is as fucked up as it is?

We're surrounded by idiots and demagogues.

Posted by: acethepug at October 09, 2013 02:56 PM (jvn8r)

Given that SJL has a law degree from an Ivy League school, I would think that more families would be trying to distance themselves from an "institution" which would confer one of the highest degrees on a person who possesses such weapons-grade stupidity.

But no.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at October 09, 2013 02:57 PM (PZ6/M)

28 Eh, Sheila Jackson Lee has LOTS of ideas, pretty much on a daily basis. On the SJL Stupidity Scale, this is like a 3.

Posted by: Ktgreat: at October 09, 2013 02:57 PM (Bl4dy)

29 5 Martial Law. Who they gonna call on to enforce that? The park rangers?

Posted by: mama winger at October 09, 2013 06:52 PM (P6QsQ)

What.??? you didn't hear about the new All Gay Airborne Unit???

The Rainbow Rangers? They are FAHBULOUS!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 09, 2013 02:57 PM (lZBBB)

30 Sheila, Maxine, Debbie, Nancy, Babs the punch drunk Boxer, Diane, and the list goes on and on as the left takes the cake for the dumbest women in politics.

Posted by: angel with a sword at October 09, 2013 02:57 PM (hpgw1)

31 She's just doing her part to help the economy by increasing gun sales.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at October 09, 2013 02:58 PM (b9K4P)

32 Silly rabbi. When we said 'appeal to authority' we didn't mean THAT authority!

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 02:58 PM (N/Sup)

33 I'd like to ask SJL which staffer prepared that speech for her?

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas also hands out nicknames to the people who work for her. The Houston Democrat addressed one of her employees as Â“you stupid motherf**ker.Â” And not just once, but Â“constantly,Â” recalls the staffer, Â“like, all the time.Â”

Quoted from PJ Media.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 02:58 PM (wNF3N)

34 And why does Drudge have a picture of Ben Franklin at the top of his site?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 02:58 PM (g1DWB)

Of course, martial law is exactly what they want. Sheila Jackson Lee is just the only one (at this time) stupid enough to say it out loud.

Posted by: EROWMER at October 09, 2013 06:55 PM (OONaw)

You know she is just parroting what the smart set is telling her. Who is telling her this would be an interesting question?

Posted by: rd at October 09, 2013 02:58 PM (D+lxs)

36 Damn socialist elves rearranged my sock drawer. I think they redistributed my underwear too.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 02:59 PM (N/Sup)

37 "Its like the Debt... there is NO way we can ever get out of debt... there is no plan... yet they continue to pile on MORE debt... hoping some miracle will come and save them....

But reality does not work that way.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 09, 2013 06:55 PM (lZBBB)"

Yeah, it's amazing that Krugman, and I'm sure many others, keep saying don't worry about the debt because at some point we'll be so rich that the debt is a mere drop in the bucket to pay off.

And just how in the fuck is that going to happen when you same assholes who keep piling on debt ALSO keep raising the costs of doing business and cutting the benefits of risk-taking, meaning that it's going to take us much longer to get rich enough to pay off the debt without major pain?

Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at October 09, 2013 02:59 PM (57n+4)

38 23 I told you they msm would start turning on Obama when he did things that they were unable to cover up. Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 06:56 PM (g1DWB) ******** Eh--if you could "measure" this it would be relatively insignificant . Sure The Washington Post had this at their website on their front page and I got all excited. But guess what--it was at about 7 pm Pacific time maybe even later when I noticed it --and-- it was not there this morning--when most people read the news.

Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 02:59 PM (r2PLg)

39 34 And why does Drudge have a picture of Ben Franklin at the top of his site?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 06:58 PM (g1DWB)

Heh. Lib wimmin apparently don't own mirrors. Or have hair stylists. Or know where to buy decent cosmetics.

Does look like a dude in drag.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 03:00 PM (lVPtV)

40 Just spend half an hour arguing on Twitter with Greg Sargent. What a limp-dicked idiot.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at October 09, 2013 03:00 PM (azHfB)

41 25 A steely-eyed, hard-drinking bastard. Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at October 09, 2013 06:56 PM (6WVi+) Wrong guy....this Marshall Law terrorizes busloads of tourists at parks....they fear him.

Posted by: BignJames at October 09, 2013 03:00 PM (ZNQKl)

42 34 And why does Drudge have a picture of Ben Franklin at the top of his site? Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 06:58 PM (g1DWB) BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at October 09, 2013 03:00 PM (bCEmE)

43 from today's email...

"Here's something else Hillary said: "Because of the government shutdown, nearly nine million women and children will soon be unable to buy healthy food and baby formula." "

[is she full of crap or only half full of crap..? no one knows... wooooo...]

Posted by: mallfly at October 09, 2013 03:00 PM (bJm7W)

44 So much for government by experts. They've stopped listening to the experts, even.

Posted by: RiverC at October 09, 2013 03:00 PM (9hUiB)

45 Sheila Jackson Lee: too dumbn and ugly to make it as a crackwhore. It was congressional stooge or nothing.

Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2013 03:00 PM (HzhBE)

46 Benjamin fucking Franklin, yes. I couldn't put my finger on it.

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at October 09, 2013 03:00 PM (6WVi+)

47 We're surrounded by idiots and demagogues.

Posted by: acethepug at October 09, 2013 06:56 PM (jvn8r)

I read that as synagogues and thought, "Where the fuck does he live?"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 03:01 PM (/kU/5)

48 Looks like Greta is at Arlington Cemetery. And God bless her, she's fired up.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 03:01 PM (lVPtV)

49 23 I told you they msm would start turning on Obama when he did things that they were unable to cover up. Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 06:56 PM (g1DWB) That must be why they hammered him with hard questions yesterday.

Posted by: Buzzion at October 09, 2013 03:01 PM (yj1r4)

"You were right. I'm sorry for calling you names."

--Words you will never hear from disillusioned former Obamacare supporters.

Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2013 03:02 PM (HzhBE)

51 "They simply said there was no cause for alarm; the strange gods of the left would just sort everything out."

Those were the same strange gods of the left who were supposed to fix the economy and balance the budget _just like that_. And the same strange gods of the left who were going to make everyone in the rest of the world who viscerally hates us suddenly adore us.

They never showed.

Oddly, the gods who showed up in their place were a bunch who call themselves The Gods Of The Copybook Headings.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 09, 2013 03:02 PM (gqT4g)

52

They have to at the very least delay the individual mandate due to their Democrat incompetence.

Please no. I think the GOP should cave on this. Give everyone a year to get a good snoot full of Obamacare. Let them rediscover that initial sticker shock each and every month. Let them ruminate on their $12k deductibles. Let em rattle around in their slave chains for a while.

This will not be 'old news'. It will be every day pain, every day making do with less.

The GOP has made their point. Give in now before King Putt wises up, and accepts a delay.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 03:02 PM (0IhFx)

53 It's a total screw up, yes, but it was somebody elses fault-not President Obama or his administration or the people they paid 645 million for it. Just give is single payer and all problems will cease/sarc

Posted by: LocalLefty at October 09, 2013 03:02 PM (a4Omg)

54 Good report. Anyone who has ever worked on a technology project in the private sector would tell you that they'd have been fired for allowing this mess to roll-out to customers. I've managed a number of technology projects and have said in the comments the same thing the fella in vid said: This would NEVER have passed testing. Not the first round, and damn sure not the final round. If only there were technology czar to oversee such projects.... Oh. Wait! http://t.co/XqUceDGONq

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 09, 2013 03:02 PM (DmNpO)

55 48 Looks like Greta is at Arlington Cemetery. And God bless her, she's fired up. Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 07:01 PM (lVPtV) *********** Ugh the government didn't fly the families to Dover AFB?

Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 03:03 PM (r2PLg)

56 >>Eh--if you could "measure" this it would be relatively insignificant . Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, CBS .. A crack here, a crack there. Pretty soon you got .. well a lot of cracks.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 03:03 PM (g1DWB)

57 The Odeathpanelcare rollout is failing because we just don't believe in it hard enough.

We are disappointing our dear leader.

Posted by: Marmo from Iowa, the only state that elects our presidents at October 09, 2013 03:03 PM (pcgW1)

58 34 >> And why does Drudge have a picture of Ben Franklin at the top of his site?

Biographers have it that ole Ben was a bit of a cooter hound.

That's just a hound.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 09, 2013 03:03 PM (wNF3N)

59 North Korea is threatening that America will suffer a disaster. We are only days away from them taking credit for Obamacare.

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 03:03 PM (SzAZ7)

34 And why does Drudge have a picture of Ben Franklin at the top of his site?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 06:58 PM (g1DWB)

*******************

Why do every single one of these lickspittles look like a poorly drawn cartoon?

Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2013 03:04 PM (HzhBE)

61 And how many have actually enrolled in the boondoggle? "Hundreds." "I've seen varying statistics with regard to overall viewership so far, but all agree that in excess of 8 million unique people have viewed the health exchanges. The end result for major insurers such as CIGNA (NYSE: CI ) , Aetna (NYSE: AET ) , and WellPoint (NYSE: WLP ) has been less than encouraging, with each reporting sign-ups in the hundreds on federally run exchanges due to the ongoing glitches" Link (to slobbering love fest) in sig.

Posted by: Lauren at October 09, 2013 03:04 PM (ELdpj)

62
Also...who the hell is that woman on Drudge? Looks like Ben Franklin in drag.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 09, 2013 03:04 PM (0IhFx)

63 "18 Thing is, they know the "experts" in other fields, such as climate science, are completely full of crap, so they figure, these experts are equally as ignorant. Plus they probably figure that as long as they tell the public that everything is fine and the media go along, then the mass of people will be tricked into believing them, just like global warming.

Posted by: BuckIV at October 09, 2013 06:56 PM (gedHR)"

The only thing the Left is expert in is "goal-post moving". They'd have been great before the invention of writing and other technologies that enable the rest of us to check their historical comments against what they are saying in whatever present it is in which they've once again failed to deliver what they had promised.

Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at October 09, 2013 03:04 PM (57n+4)

64 56 >>Eh--if you could "measure" this it would be relatively insignificant . Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News, CBS .. A crack here, a crack there. Pretty soon you got .. well a lot of cracks. Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 07:03 PM (g1DWB) ********** Ha--for some reason you said cracks so many times and the media that- ass popped up in my mind. A whole lotta asses.

Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 03:04 PM (r2PLg)

Land of the Misfit Marxists

Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2013 03:04 PM (HzhBE)

66 She has no idea what she is even saying. Declare Martial Law to force congress vote on the Senate bill? And yes she was elected by a majority of her constituents.

Posted by: Registered Voter at October 09, 2013 03:04 PM (xqjwP)

67 Ugh the government didn't fly the families to Dover AFB?

Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 07:03 PM (r2PLg)

No. Fisher House picked up the tab. May Hagel and Obama find a nice, toasty place next to Teddy Kennedy some day.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 03:05 PM (lVPtV)

68 Its like the Debt... there is NO way we can ever get out of debt... there is no plan... yet they continue to pile on MORE debt... hoping some miracle will come and save them.... Romeo13, The miracle they're actually hoping for is massive inflation. Think Zimbabwe at the extreme - if it takes $50 billion Obama FunBux(TM) to buy what is currently $1's worth of food, then $17 trillion isn't such big deal now is it. Once Obama was elected, his financial advisors actually used to talk about inflating the currency on places like NPR circa late 2008, early 2009 till they figured out that wasn't such a popular idea. The plan's still there they just aren't talking about it. New Head of the Fed's all about printing worthless Obama FunBux and calling it stimulus.

Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 03:05 PM (0cMkb)

69 ObamaCare hasn't even been rolled out yet. All we've seen so far is what a disaster the sign-up process is. The insurance disaster is itself yet to come. The delivery of medical services, by the unhappily enslaved medical profession to the cowed citizenry (whose health history will be used to make sure everybody behaves themselves) will also be an Eastern European level nightmare, circa 1956. This is like a volcano of hot molten crap, and its going to erupt for months and years to come. Unless we can get rid of it. Nuke it. Bulldoze it over.

Posted by: MTF at October 09, 2013 03:05 PM (xqauy)

70 43 nearly nine million women and children will soon be unable to buy healthy food HRC is full of herself. They already don't buy healthy food, that's why they are fat and firlting with diabetes.

Posted by: angel with a sword at October 09, 2013 03:05 PM (hpgw1)

71 Looks like they spent most of their time designing the icons and coming up with clever names for the exchanges, but not much else.

Posted by: Tutu at October 09, 2013 03:06 PM (CpWI4)

72 Nothing like having the Underpants Gnomes as your business mentors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2013 03:07 PM (8Fl6F)

73 If you like your Obamacare password, you can keep your Obamacare password.

Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2013 03:07 PM (HzhBE)

Sheila Jackson Lee knows how to end this shutdown.

I see what happened here. I think Ms. Lee meant "Martian Law". Martian law is similar to Unicorn law. Her colleagues know what it means.

Posted by: Liberty Lover at October 09, 2013 03:07 PM (2DgBs)

75 Chill everyone. Smoke a little weed. Listen to some music. It'll all be just fine. Now, bend over and grab your ankles. Doctor Uncle Sam has to check a few things.

Posted by: President For Life Obama at October 09, 2013 03:08 PM (xqauy)

76 >>Does look like a dude in drag. Posted by: Jane D'oh On a really bad hair day.

Posted by: Aviator at October 09, 2013 03:08 PM (DI+ja)

77 They already don't buy healthy food, that's why they are fat and firlting with diabetes.

Posted by: angel with a sword at October 09, 2013 07:05 PM (hpgw1)

This is a question of choice, which apparently is perfectly okay if you choose to kill your baby, but beyond the pale if it means buying a second bag of Tostitos and a 2 Liter Coke to wash it down.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 03:08 PM (/kU/5)

78 Jan Crawford is obviously another racist cunt who hates our President. She is a disgrace to her profession and to the feminist cause, which is clearly allied to a greater progressive movement. She deserves to be hounded from the profession for this breach in ideology.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at October 09, 2013 03:08 PM (/I/Y7)

79 Posted by: Tutu at October 09, 2013 07:06 PM (CpWI4) slogans too, I'd bet....gotta have slogans

Posted by: BignJames at October 09, 2013 03:08 PM (ZNQKl)

80 Sheila Jackson Lee's martial law solution makes no sense (because she never makes any sense), but didn't she graduate from Yale Law School????
Geez.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2013 03:09 PM (JRmiD)

81 13 The Left believes in the Deux Ex Machina .... In Medieval plays, there would be a number of horrible problems throughout the play... but at the end, a Godlike Great Voice would come in from offstage, and make everything OK.... this device was called the Great Machine... Posted by: Romeo13 Close, but not quite. The phrase "Deus ex Machina" actually dates MUCH further back than that, to the Greek plays of Menander and the Roman plays of Plautus (among many others), who, as you noted, wrote plots that became ever-increasingly more complex and irresolvable at the play's climax approached. However, it wasn't merely an offstage voice which resolved things, but an actual "machine" (most likely a crane or a platform hanging from ropes) in which an actor portraying Zeus or Athena or Jupiter would descend from the rafters and, totally illogically, simply declared that all dilemmas were resolved, and all unsolvable problems fixed. "Thus it is so! And they al lived happily ever after." Audiences got so POed at this cop-out device even back then that the phrase "Deus ex machina" ("God from a machine") developed.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 03:09 PM (+cx5n)

82 You know, if I were a President rolling out a healthcare law that has become synonymous with my name, which has faced staunch legislative and popular opposition since the day it was signed into law, I'd make fucking sure that the geniuses designing the - WEBSITE, in 2013 - made a workable product so as not to invite even more criticism of my already-falling-apart policy. But, you know, that would just make too much sense.

Posted by: LP at October 09, 2013 03:09 PM (VqXoN)

83 I'd suggest that Sheila Jackson Lee seriously re-think ...how declaring martial law might affect her personally. Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2013 06:51 PM If it happened...she and her cohorts would be out of business....

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 09, 2013 03:09 PM (MhA4j)

84 Looks like they spent most of their time designing the icons and coming up with clever names for the exchanges, but not much else. Posted by: Tutu at October 09, 2013 07:06 PM (CpWI4) Bingo! I bet they've been fapping it for months over their "Adorable health care" cute animal messaging. Actual hard work programing the hellish thing? Eh, let some donor's kid or brother-in-law handle that shit.

Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 03:09 PM (0cMkb)

85 New Head of the Fed's all about printing worthless Obama FunBux and calling it stimulus.

Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 07:05 PM (0cMkb)

Dude....lighten up. It's only $83 Billion/month. And has been for a few years.

That won't cause inflation. In fact, it's good for the economy.

Paul Krugman said so.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 03:10 PM (/kU/5)

86 Oops - Yale undergraduate, Virginia School of Law.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2013 03:10 PM (JRmiD)

87 As far as Sheila Jackson, can't congress just deem her passed?

Posted by: Eton Cox at October 09, 2013 03:10 PM (q177U)

88 Posted by: Lizzy at October 09, 2013 07:09 PM (JRmiD)

Yale undergrad, UVA Law.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 03:10 PM (/kU/5)

89 This expertise is from the gang who thought that they could provide insurance coverage to more people and cover pre-existing conditions while adding a new layer of federal bureaucracy and (wait for it)...

still reduce premiums for everyone.

They were going to find some way to mash that big ol' square peg into the tiny little round hole, because government and stuff.

These idiot Leftards live in a world that is completely divorced from reality. And they're driving the bus.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 03:11 PM (8ZskC)

90 67 Ugh the government didn't fly the families to Dover AFB? Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 07:03 PM (r2PLg) No. Fisher House picked up the tab. May Hagel and Obama find a nice, toasty place next to Teddy Kennedy some day. Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 07:05 PM (lVPtV) ********** Okay so they made it to Dover AFB. I thought TAPS covered that. Either way TAPS and Fisher House--aren't the usual ones to pay. I think they are charities--or non-profits--not "government:. I think the usual process is the families buy the airfare and DOD reimburses. The story yesterday was the families had to call TAPS becasue they were scrambling trying to figure it out. Might be that the first shirt had to direct them to TAPS. --btw never heard of TAPS before-- Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors. I guess now Greta is saying an un-named organization paid. Probably because of the same legal entanglement which did not allow them to reveal the name of the organization that helped pay for the AF football to fly out for the Navy Air Force game.

Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 03:11 PM (r2PLg)

91 With all due respect to Ace and other sensible lawyers on this site, I've said in the past that the Dems are the lawyer party. They think the universe operates on lawyer principles, IOW there are no real truths, it's all about who can craft the most beguiling words to persuade others.

Physical reality is not interested in beguiling words.

Posted by: pep at October 09, 2013 03:11 PM (6TB1Z)

92 UVA Law. Uvula?

Posted by: Waterhouse at October 09, 2013 03:11 PM (jYi2f)

93 "
The miracle they're actually hoping for is massive inflation.

Think Zimbabwe at the extreme - if it takes $50 billion Obama FunBux(TM) to buy what is currently $1's worth of food, then $17 trillion isn't such big deal now is it.

Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 07:05 PM (0cMkb)"

While that might do something for the official debt, the unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security are almost all tied to inflation. What good does it to to inflate the currency when doctors will raise their sticker prices for Medicare services right along with the inflation?

Not saying that I have any confidence in Medicare or Social Security, but at least nominally the program structures would undermine any attempt to inflate them away.

Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at October 09, 2013 03:11 PM (57n+4)

Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 07:05 PM (0cMkb)

Which destroys any reason to save, and invest.

Due to interest rates being lower than Inflation, its already a net negative to save money.... and as banks Play with money in derivatives instead of investing in companies that actually MAKE stuff????

Economy is going down... because once hyper inflation hits, it kills investment AND the government will still be forced to maintain an unrealistic amount of spending, because too many will depend on the Government for basic subsistence.

Note that the average household income has DROPPED... even though inflation has risen...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 09, 2013 03:12 PM (lZBBB)

After the Obamacare rollout the progressive pixies probably need a boost to their elf-esteem.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 03:12 PM (N/Sup)

96 Or perhaps engage in some elf-flagellation.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 03:12 PM (N/Sup)

97 Yale undergrad, UVA Law.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at

**********************

AmishDude, phone call for you on line one. AmishDude, please pickup line one.

Posted by: Warden at October 09, 2013 03:12 PM (HzhBE)

98 Audiences got so POed at this cop-out device even back then that the phrase "Deus ex machina" ("God from a machine") developed.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 07:09 PM (+cx5n)

Today we call that Obamacare.

Posted by: Retread at October 09, 2013 03:12 PM (Oz+LZ)

99 Wow Even a dumb CBS twat can see the sun up there in the sky

Posted by: TexasJew at October 09, 2013 03:13 PM (6+4TJ)

100

Not to be confused with the phrase "God doing a line dance"*

*(Deus ex Macarena)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 03:15 PM (N/Sup)

101 Sheila Jackson Lee knows how to end this shutdown. I see what happened here. I think Ms. Lee meant "Martian Law". Martian law is similar to Unicorn law. Her colleagues know what it means. You beat me to it. After all, she's the one who thought our spacemen planted a flag on Mars, and wondered if the Pathfinder had taken a photo.

Posted by: jakeman at October 09, 2013 03:15 PM (vH4YP)

102 91 With all due respect to Ace and other sensible lawyers on this site, I've said in the past that the Dems are the lawyer party. They think the universe operates on lawyer principles, IOW there are no real truths, it's all about who can craft the most beguiling words to persuade others. Physical reality is not interested in beguiling words. Posted by: pep at October 09, 2013 07:11 PM (6TB1Z) ********** Ya it's the gawd damn "loop hole" party. They probably stayed up for weeks thinking up that Reconciliation Two Step. And now we are suppose to trust Obama when he says he will allow the House to solve this via-- "process".

Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 03:16 PM (r2PLg)

103 *(Deus ex Macarena)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 07:15 PM (N/Sup)

Yes.... I much prefer the forbidden dance of love...

Lambada Time!

Posted by: Satan at October 09, 2013 03:16 PM (lZBBB)

104 President Beta.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 03:18 PM (+cx5n)

105 Yes.... I much prefer the forbidden dance of love...

Lambada Time!

'70s rock, baby.

Posted by: Deus ex My Sharona at October 09, 2013 03:18 PM (8ZskC)

106

So how do they come back from this? I mean would you ever trust your information to them? Like in 6 months?

I think Obama has not negotiated his signature policy into blessed nothingness. He should have taken the out the Republicans tried to give him.

You only get one chance at launching a brand. One first impression.

Posted by: petunia at October 09, 2013 03:18 PM (DAcBA)

107 CharlieBrown'sDildo, I have no problem with people making choices, bad or otherwise. I do have a problem with people who make choices with other people's dimes. And, I have a problem with harridans like HRC posturing over the village raising the children at my expense. My family raised me, I raised my children, and now my children are raising their children. We need to burn down the village to save the village.

Posted by: angel with a sword at October 09, 2013 03:18 PM (hpgw1)

108 Levin has Ron Johnson in a bit of a bind, and the sumbitch can't stop talking in circles. (Johnnson, not Levin).

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 09, 2013 03:18 PM (QdOC1)

109 57 The Odeathpanelcare rollout is failing because we just don't believe in it hard enough. We are disappointing our dear leader. That's why I call him President Tinkerbell. At the end of the play Peter Pan, Tinkerbell is dying and the audience is supposed to say "I do believe in fairies, I do believe in fairies." After they do, she comes back to life. Libs really do believe that lack of sufficient faith in Obama is part of his failure. Of course, everything with them is "more cowbell."

Posted by: AmishDude at October 09, 2013 03:19 PM (T0NGe)

110

Yes.... I much prefer the forbidden dance of love...

Lambada Time!

Posted by: Satan at October 09, 2013 07:16 PM (lZBBB)

*****

Hey Satan, I notice your hash is an anagram of Beelzebub- coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 03:19 PM (N/Sup)

111 >>Virginia School of Law More like "Virginia Cloggenstein"s* School of Law and Screen Door Store" *Mary's sister

Posted by: Aviator at October 09, 2013 03:19 PM (DI+ja)

112 Not to be confused with the phrase "God doing a line dance"*
*(Deus ex Macarena)

Nor the God from Florence (Deus Ex Macaroni)

Posted by: pep at October 09, 2013 03:20 PM (6TB1Z)

113 This mess doesn't surprise me a bit, given it's been brought to life by the same clowns that created the "Office of the President-Elect." All show-ponies, the lot of them.

Posted by: chuckinseattle at October 09, 2013 03:20 PM (EZU5/)

114 Sheila Jackson Lee knows how to end this shutdown.

That's right, you guessed it -- by the declaration of martial law.

I say go for it, you commie whore!

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 09, 2013 03:20 PM (ooEwf)

115 We need to burn down the village to save the village.

Posted by: angel with a sword at October 09, 2013 07:18 PM (hpgw1)

I agree. My point was that progressives believe in unfettered free will when it comes to abortion, but don't trust the people to decide what food they should buy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 03:21 PM (/kU/5)

116

Posted by: Barky "O at October 09, 2013 03:21 PM (Oi60j)

117 As far as Sheila Jackson, can't congress just deem her passed?

I had a motion like that once. Deeming didn't help. It took a full vegetarian vindaloo that evening to get rid of it

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:21 PM (d7tB2)

118 Yale undergrad, UVA Law. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at ********************** AmishDude, phone call for you on line one. AmishDude, please pickup line one. I'll admit, it's hard being right EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Posted by: AmishDude at October 09, 2013 03:21 PM (T0NGe)

119 82

But that would require careful and deliberate planning and execution of a complicated system. Idiot King doesn't have that in him, it's also not a skill he values so he doesn't surround himself with people who know how to do this.

He's bomb-thrower who, through a quirk in time, was able to rise up to the Presidency. He's always been in way way over his head and the media knows this, that is one reason why they protect and cocoon him in their warm embrace.

The country is screwed though.

Posted by: BuckIV at October 09, 2013 03:21 PM (gedHR)

120 102 91 With all due respect to Ace and other sensible lawyers on this site, I've said in the past that the Dems are the lawyer party. They think the universe operates on lawyer principles, IOW there are no real truths, it's all about who can craft the most beguiling words to persuade others. Physical reality is not interested in beguiling words. Posted by: pep at October 09, 2013 07:11 PM (6TB1Z) ********** Ya it's the gawd damn "loop hole" party. They probably stayed up for weeks thinking up that Reconciliation Two Step. And now we are suppose to trust Obama when he says he will allow the House to solve this via-- "process". Posted by: tasker at October 09, 2013 07:16 PM (r2PLg) About EVERY. SINGLE. DAMNED. THING.

Posted by: AmishDude at October 09, 2013 03:21 PM (T0NGe)

121

Then out of nowhere, a giant hand came down and stuck a feather in my cap...

...and called it Deus ex Macaroni

Posted by: Yankee Doodle at October 09, 2013 03:21 PM (N/Sup)

122 Sheila Jackson Lee

She should be out here, not me.

Posted by: Maetenloch's Corn Field Inmates Local 999 at October 09, 2013 03:22 PM (Cs2tJ)

123 I've managed a number of technology projects and have said in the comments the same thing the fella in vid said: This would NEVER have passed testing. Not the first round, and damn sure not the final round. Absolutely! First day tests: Create an account. Verify account is created. Verify information in created account is correct. Login with correct information. Verify login succeeded. Login with incorrect information. Verify login denied. So far I've got four of six first day off the top of my head test cases that would have failed.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2013 03:22 PM (yETln)

124 Not to be confused with the phrase "God doing a line dance"* *(Deus ex Macarena) Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 07:15 PM (N/Sup) I prefer the "God in a Cookie"* *Deux ex Macaroon

Posted by: Not the KGB at October 09, 2013 03:22 PM (0cMkb)

125 We're in the hunnerts, so a quick OT: I am seeing a lot of people on FB giving both barrels to Dems, calling them out on their B.S. It's pretty interesting, even if anecdotal. I think people are getting pissed, and feeling more free to become vocal about it. It just took them longer than those of us in the Moronosphere. Because smart military blog.

Posted by: jakeman at October 09, 2013 03:23 PM (vH4YP)

126 Wait till ya get a load of my new Dental take over plan.

Posted by: Barky O' Bammycare at October 09, 2013 03:23 PM (Oi60j)

127 We had to crash the Web site in order to beta test the Web site.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 03:24 PM (+cx5n)

128 "'People were pulling out their hair,' he said."

Did you know we cover hair implants? Now, understand that the implants are from imported Chinese nutria, the provider a premed student in junior college, the wait three months after the Apocalypse, and the fee contingent on a $5,000 deductible.

But you will have coverage.

You should be thanking me.

Posted by: ObamaCare Bronze Plan at October 09, 2013 03:24 PM (eHIJJ)

129 Who was that skeezy crabbing senator Levin was skewering?

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 09, 2013 03:24 PM (MhA4j)

130 ...is that like a frontal labotomy or a bottle in front of me ?

Posted by: hobo kelley at October 09, 2013 03:24 PM (YpjaN)

131 Absolutely! First day tests: Create an account. >> Took 3 days Verify account is created. >>Took 6 days Verify information in created account is correct. >>nope Login with correct information. >>nope Verify login succeeded. >>nope Login with incorrect information. >>nope Verify login denied.>>nope

Posted by: Lauren at October 09, 2013 03:25 PM (ELdpj)

132 Deux ex Macaroon Posted by: Not the KGB Obama might racistly (but accurately) be called Deus ex Octoroon

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 03:25 PM (+cx5n)

133 What good does it to to inflate the currency when doctors will raise their sticker prices for Medicare services right along with the inflation?
________________________

Do doctors have any control over Medicare reimbursement rates? I really don't know.

Posted by: BuckIV at October 09, 2013 03:25 PM (gedHR)

134 We had to crash the Web site in order to beta test the Web site.

Which is absolutely what beta testing is for. Where I have a problem is in treating the prod system like a beta environment

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:25 PM (d7tB2)

135 Who wants to bet the big enormous central to everything "Data Hub" is even more buggy? That's the hidden nightmare lurking behind this current set of bugs.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2013 03:26 PM (yETln)

136 *(Deus ex Macarena)

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 07:15 PM (N/Sup)

You started this shit with no plans on how to end it.

This is the fucking Moron Horde!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 03:26 PM (/kU/5)

137 I hate Comcast with the heat of a billion suns.

Every fucking day the WiFi goes out, at least twice.

Just re-booted for the second time today. Yay me.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 03:26 PM (lVPtV)

138

Do doctors have any control over Medicare reimbursement rates? I really don't know.

Posted by: BuckIV at October 09, 2013 07:25 PM (gedHR)

****

Short answer- no.

Longer answer- hell, no.

Posted by: Yankee Doodle at October 09, 2013 03:26 PM (N/Sup)

139 Wait till ya get a load of my new Dental take over plan. When we lived in Canada, the richest guy in town was an orthodonist. Cash only, FTW. Which brought me to another thought of our experience there: I can't wait until doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers start going on strike. Because that is our future.

Posted by: jakeman at October 09, 2013 03:27 PM (vH4YP)

140 someone doesn't like Maety

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:27 PM (d7tB2)

141

Did anyone actually take one for the team and listen to SJLs rant? I wonder in what crazy way she thinks (feels? randomly says?) martial law will end the shutdown.

Or does she just want to declare martial law because shut up?

Posted by: lgw at October 09, 2013 03:27 PM (gVKxQ)

142 124 We're in the hunnerts, so a quick OT: I am seeing a lot of people on FB giving both barrels to Dems, calling them out on their B.S. It's pretty interesting, even if anecdotal. I think people are getting pissed, and feeling more free to become vocal about it. It just took them longer than those of us in the Moronosphere. Because smart military blog. Posted by: jakeman at October 09, 2013 07:23 PM (vH4YP) Ironclad rule of American politics: When polls say "a pox on both their houses" is winning it means people are dissatisfied with Democrats. It's too PC to be anti-Democrat so they have to pretend the blame should be spread evenly.

Posted by: AmishDude at October 09, 2013 03:27 PM (T0NGe)

143 Oops. off doodling yankee sock.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 03:27 PM (N/Sup)

144 Yeah I post on a sports recreational site that gets a lot of trolls from both political spectrum's. When they started fining and banning people from national parks for no reason. A lot of fellow runners were pointing out there still at these parks to patrol but not to keep open. Also Ted Cruz has become the new Koch Brother or Booosh meme. It's been pretty interesting watching the back and forth.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at October 09, 2013 03:27 PM (b9K4P)

145 Which is absolutely what beta testing is for. Where I have a problem is in treating the prod system like a beta environment This website isn't even ready for beta. It's pre-alpha.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2013 03:27 PM (yETln)

146 Obama is the only beta male who was never beta tested.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 03:29 PM (+cx5n)

147 not "president beta"

President Lambda Lambda Lambda

Posted by: Major _______ de Coverly at October 09, 2013 03:29 PM (omBWL)

148 We've been asking these questions from the beginning.

Well, not me, per se, but MS/NBC. OK, not MS/NBC, but people. Um, not really asking now that you mention it; more sort of suggesting things in the hypothetical. Misspoke there. We've done nothing but change the subject. But they were very interesting subjects, I CAN ASSURE YOU!

Posted by: Andrea Mitchell at October 09, 2013 03:29 PM (eHIJJ)

149 Whem medical device and insurance insiders start selling that'll trigger the next crash. They may have stuxnetted the govt's feeble takeover attempt. Think about it. 1-800-f1ukyou was a hint.

Posted by: pc at October 09, 2013 03:29 PM (zeWyX)

150 131 Deux ex Macaroon
Posted by: Not the KGB

Obama might racistly (but accurately) be called

Deus ex Octoroon

No, that would be Deus ex Maroon, or the God who is a Moron.

Posted by: pep at October 09, 2013 03:29 PM (6TB1Z)

151 Here come the screws....gotta run.

Posted by: Maetenloch's Corn Field Inmates Local 999 at October 09, 2013 03:29 PM (Cs2tJ)

152

I see SJL is wearing her 'down with the struggle'' doo. Hmm that is uncharacteristic of her as she is usually well coiffed in her elaborate weaves. Things must have come 'full circle' since the sixties at least in her mind..

Posted by: Regular Guy at October 09, 2013 03:29 PM (N3Al8)

153 I hate Comcast with the heat of a billion suns. Every fucking day the WiFi goes out, at least twice. Just re-booted for the second time today. Yay me. Are you renting the WiFi device from Comcast? Is it just the WiFi going offline, or are wired devices losing connectivity too?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2013 03:30 PM (yETln)

154 Shelia Jackson 5 Lee misread her talking points. She meant to support the imposition Marital Law based on the common law concept of "Ready yourself Wife because you're gonna get a humping tonight."

Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at October 09, 2013 03:30 PM (SzAZ7)

155

You started this shit with no plans on how to end it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 07:26 PM (/kU/5)

****

For better or worse, this is what I do. It is either a personality flaw or a stroke of humor genius. Probably the former.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at October 09, 2013 03:30 PM (N/Sup)

156 If I were to say what SJL wants, that would be deemed racist. That is because what SJL says she wants - and I have seen her speak in person - is, itself, racist.

And no, she's not going to be primaried out anytime soon. That's a racist observation too of course.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:30 PM (d7tB2)

157

Why didn't O just write the program himself, since he is better than anyone else at their jobs?

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2013 03:31 PM (9JxIc)

158 When polls say "a pox on both their houses" is winning it means people are dissatisfied with Democrats. Agreed. And I firmly believe that a lot of conservatives who are pissed at the GOP is because they're not jamming it up the Dems' squeakholes when they have the chance. That's my feeling towards my idiot senator (McLame), and that's what I tell every poor sap from the RNC that calls me begging for money.

Posted by: jakeman at October 09, 2013 03:32 PM (vH4YP)

159 Yeah, beta sites are operational. A tweak here and there but essentially functional.

404Care is simply not functional. It's the non-functional frontend to a dysfunctional scheme.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 09, 2013 03:32 PM (eHIJJ)

160 "It wasn't designed well. It wasn't implemented well and it has major design flaws."

Was that guy talking about the web site or the law.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 09, 2013 03:33 PM (fvV0D)

161 If it happened...she and her cohorts would be out of business....

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 09, 2013 07:09 PM (MhA4j)

Not merely out of business. Try "out of existence". Doesn't matter which scenario you posit, Obama declaring himself Preezy For Life, and getting enough military to back him up; or some Pinochet type staging a Constitutionalist coup. One way or the other, she gets a cigarette and a blindfold. In the first case, she's no longer necessary, and becomes something of a threat to Caudillo Obama, because she may know where some bodies are buried, and because she is (inexplicably) a popular Rep, and might form a nucleus for resistance. And in the second case, because of treason for being part of the O'gime, and for the chance that again, somehow, she might become a counter-revolutionary leader.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2013 03:33 PM (8Fl6F)

162 This attempted takeover by ssri whacked out characters like Pelosi and Rangel and the boy king o was so feeble and weak you had to figure there were people in irreplaceable positions secretly working to slow it down with software and bureaucratic cumbersauce.

Posted by: pc at October 09, 2013 03:34 PM (zeWyX)

163

@ 126 We had to crash the Web site in order to beta test the Web site.

--------------

Heh. Sounds like the original launch of Final Fantasy XIV. But at least you could log into that and play something. It took them three years (two years adjusting the original release, and one year with everything shut down to finalize the changes and replace the engine) before they could roll out the current - successful - version of the game.

With Obamacare, on the other hand, you can't even log in. Who knows how many other issues there are still lurking under the surface that no one even knows about because so few people have been able to log in? The only one that we know about to date is the insurance companies not getting enough information to sign people up.

Posted by: junior at October 09, 2013 03:34 PM (UWFpX)

164 >>>Sheila Jackson Lee knows how to end this shutdown.
That's right, you guessed it -- by the declaration of martial law.

I've got my popcorn and lawn chair ready. Go ahead, cross the Rubicon. I wanna see what happens when the Constitution burns for real. I want to see if men will demand freedom in the face of an undeniable long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evincing a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism

Or if they will lick the feet of their new overlords and proclaim loudly the tyrants divine right to rule by decree bestowed by the new papacy of academia.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Laughing Maniacally While Throwing Matches. at October 09, 2013 03:34 PM (0q2P7)

165 Quick, everyone! Clap if you *believe* in Obamacare and we can bring the healthcare.gov back to life! CLAP IF YOU BELIEVE!!!!

Posted by: Dancing Queen at October 09, 2013 03:35 PM (FDGeg)

166 If I was a prog I would say that SJL statement is an embarrassment to african american women everywhere. But since I'm not a prog, I won't judge an entire group of people by one person's ridiculous comment.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at October 09, 2013 03:35 PM (b9K4P)

167 Yay howdy, Trey Gowdy!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 09, 2013 03:35 PM (lVPtV)

168 I was one of the beta testers on a company-wide program that controlled every facet of trailer and package car movement for UPS. It also connected the scanning number on every package to the trailer or package car or air-freight container. It also did simulations and a lot of other stuff, including planning tools that pulled data from everywhere.

Just think about the database needed for that.
Every trailer. Every tractor. Every package car. Every air container. Every package.

The first night it ran. Badly, but it ran. The next night the programmers had fixed about 75% of the problems. They stayed for a long, long time, but it worked.

That's how private enterprise does this stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 03:36 PM (/kU/5)

169 i can do a little refactoring but no integration testing because SHUTDOWN

Posted by: Strange Code Cobbling Leftist God at October 09, 2013 03:37 PM (MtCwV)

170 I posted this in the previous thread, but it bears repeating here. The democrats and their allies in the media are desperate to get the GOP to cave on the shutdown before the general public puts two and two together and realizes that the GOP is using the only weapon it has - the shutdown - to try and stop this cluster#%$#

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 09, 2013 03:37 PM (/i3Yt)

171 128 Who was that skeezy crabbing senator Levin was skewering?

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 09, 2013 07:24 PM (MhA4j)

Ron Johnson (R-WI). Sounded like a big pussy to me.

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 09, 2013 03:37 PM (QdOC1)

172 Levin has been pegged at eleven for quite an extended period of time. I hope he won't have to visit the Cleveland Clinic anytime soon. He and Tammy Bruce supply my red meat for the day.

Posted by: Captain Hate on his iPhone at October 09, 2013 03:37 PM (f7RT6)

173 But they don't listen to facts. They make decisions based upon their partisan hopes and ideological dreams. The thing will work, because it must work, because the Cause of the Left is noble and good, and because the left's strange gods will come in at night, like socialist elves, to cobble the Administration's code together. The Emo Agenda only results in persuasion. It cannot get intelligent, hard work done.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 09, 2013 03:38 PM (IXrOn)

174 Obamacare roll-out? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at October 09, 2013 03:38 PM (SzAZ7)

175 Let It Turn.

(not that we have an option, the country's already bit)

Posted by: The Governor at October 09, 2013 03:39 PM (Tlix5)

176 Sheila Jackson Lee knows how to end this shutdown.
That's right, you guessed it -- by the declaration of martial law.

*****

She might be the dumbest person ever. I know they didn't keep good records back in the day but today we can measure that shit right?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 09, 2013 03:39 PM (fvV0D)

177 It's a bizarre system, designed by Vogons, consumed by the Bugblatter Beast of Trall, and then deposited in peat moss, and that's when it works,

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at October 09, 2013 03:40 PM (Jsiw/)

178 I love the GOP's argument on this.

Obamacare was even more popular then they predicted and the website couldn't cope with the demand on day one.

This is the argument you want to run with?

And you wonder why the GOP is polling lower than any party in the history of polling.

Posted by: Fact Man at October 09, 2013 03:40 PM (VkK2v)

179 Posted by: Captain Hate on his iPhone at October 09, 2013 07:37 PM (f7RT6)

How can you tell? He probably screams when his socks are mismatched.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 09, 2013 03:40 PM (/kU/5)

180 Hey, remember that software which was supposed to smooth out all that weather data and come up with a climate model? Remember how the source code was leaked? If I recall, the programmer who was hired to fix the code sprinkled thousands of comments in there about how his legacy base sucked.

And o boy did that code ever suck:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11 /crus_source_code_climategate_r.html

Hmm. I may as well disclose that on one of the projects I was assigned to, back in Texas, I was called in to help fix a Section 8 signup system. Guess why I quit and moved out of state?

I'm guessing the s00p3r 3133+ ObamaCare code-base, as being (also) written by political hacks, is likewise an absolute dog's breakfast. And I'm guessing that they (also) pulled in code monkeys like me from the private sector to fix the mess, and that their turnover-rate was... high.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:41 PM (d7tB2)

181 I would love to see Clint come out, dressed in his cowboy suit and spurs, onto a desert-like, hot and dry set*, and topple over a fake White House facade, only to find a fake Oval Office facade, only to find a fake, empty Oval Office chair - that he, you guessed it, topples over. *must have real tumblweeds

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 09, 2013 03:41 PM (IXrOn)

182 "Do doctors have any control over Medicare reimbursement rates? I really don't know.

Posted by: BuckIV at October 09, 2013 07:25 PM (gedHR)"

No, but they can let Congress know that they won't be seeing any Medicare patients if Congress sets the reimbursement rates too low. In any kind of hyperinflation, we could end up in a scenario where Congress needs to raise reimbursement rates weekly in order to keep access to doctors available for Medicare members.

At that point, any benefit of inflating away the debt is pretty much nullified by the consequences of trying to inflate it away. Social Security is a little easier to inflate away because it's just a cash payment, but there are still cost of living adjustments.

Anyway, this is why it seems to me that hyperinflation won't take care of the debts like it would have in the old days. Doesn't mean hyperinflation won't happen, though.

Posted by: Sudden Clarity Clarence at October 09, 2013 03:42 PM (57n+4)

183 138 When we lived in Canada, the richest guy in town was an orthodonist. Cash only, FTW. Posted by: jakeman at October 09, 2013 07:27 PM (vH4YP) I spoke to my primary care physician last month and she said she would accept cash, and adjust the price accordingly. That was good to hear. I really like her. If push comes to shove, I'll start paying cash for routine visits, lab tests, etc. As for more serious procedures, I'll have to cross that bridge when I come to it.

Posted by: rickl at October 09, 2013 03:42 PM (sdi6R)

184 Okay, okay, okay the rollout was a complete clusterfark but the rest of Obamacare is totes well thought out. Trust us.

Posted by: Neal Marx, Newsman at October 09, 2013 03:42 PM (SzAZ7)

185 Ron Johnson (R-WI). Sounded like a big pussy to me.

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 09, 2013 07:37 PM (QdOC1)

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Ron Johnson is the Tea Party candidate from Wisconsin that defeated Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WisconsinForever) using a brilliant campaign relying on his CPA knowledge and a white board. I like him a lot.

Posted by: mama winger at October 09, 2013 03:43 PM (P6QsQ)

186 >>Obamacare was even more popular then they predicted and the website couldn't cope with the demand on day one. That isn't the Republican position, Fart Man. Thats the donkey's position.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 09, 2013 03:43 PM (g1DWB)

187 Don't give Lee too much credit. She's obviously too profoundly stupid to have any idea what "martial law" really is.

Posted by: packsoldier at October 09, 2013 03:43 PM (MM3d9)

188 Posted by: Fact Man at October 09, 2013 07:40 PM (VkK2v)
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Andrea Mitchell, is that you?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 09, 2013 03:45 PM (/i3Yt)

189 I think the Dems' master strategy was this:

1) Force a shutdown over Obamacare
2) Paint the Republicans as obsolete, bigoted, and intransigent opponents to Progress
3) Pester the living hell out the American people so that they'd swarm like angry hornets on the hapless House leaders
4) Roll out Obamacare with the fanfare of media trumpets, bringing peace and bounty to the American people. Political balm and boon for all.

But things didn't turn out that way ...

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2013 03:45 PM (HjPtV)

190 Haven't read all of you morons, just most of them, but has anyone asked "declare martial law on WHAT?" Republicans? The budget? Money itself? What the fuck are we living through if not martial law in the national parks? They are enforcing exclusions with force of arms (and I'm just pointing out, for no particular reason, that these places often have extremely long lines of sight and excellent natural cover). What or who exactly is this brain surgeon wanting to point a gun at to get the other 17% of the federal workforce back?

Posted by: imp at October 09, 2013 03:46 PM (L9AnB)

191 Martial law implies that your local government county is run by, or at least answers to, people like Jane D'oh's son. I'm sure SJL would love that for Harris County.

I wouldn't entirely mind it for Boulder County, come to think of it, but then I'm not SJL.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:46 PM (d7tB2)

192 This web site is just a taste of how shitty the whole Obamacare crap sandwhich is.

MESSAGE TO PEOPLE: GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOOD AT ANYTHING. DO NOT TRUST THEM WITH YOUR HEALTH/LIFE

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 09, 2013 03:46 PM (fvV0D)

193 Don't give Lee too much credit. She's obviously too profoundly stupid to have any idea what "martial law" really is.

HINT: It's what makes the American flag stand up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 03:46 PM (8ZskC)

194 Vashta Nerada: "The democrats and their allies in the media are desperate to get the GOP to cave on the shutdown before the general public puts two and two together and realizes that the GOP is using the only weapon it has - the shutdown - to try and stop this cluster#%$#"

I've been saying that for days. It's Alinsky's Rules.

It's imperative that the Progressives/New Party use Blitzkrieg and momentum to make it appear as if their support is larger than it actually is and to keep the battle short enough that its most partisan don't abandon the generals.

If the target stands up, doesn't acquiesce, and remains uncowed by the charges, the non-targets (observers) will have time to understand the countercharge and be less likely to side with the progressive.

It's essential to elongate the conflict here, especially when the radicals cannot help but become more shrill and desperate as any perceived early momentum is lost.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at October 09, 2013 03:46 PM (eHIJJ)

195 Don't give Lee too much credit. She's obviously too profoundly stupid to have any idea what "martial law" really is. How did that insane woman get into, let along graduate from Yale and UVA. Are those institutions really so hard up they accept the bottom of the barrel, as long as their skin color is correct? Seriously! The woman is truly a moron. And I'm not just saying that because we disagree politically. She's profoundly and deeply stupid. Was she brighter back in the day? Is this just creaky age related dementia?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 09, 2013 03:47 PM (yETln)

196 Obamacare is the new government cheese

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 09, 2013 03:47 PM (fvV0D)

197 How did that insane woman get into, let along graduate from Yale and UVA. Are those institutions really so hard up they accept the bottom of the barrel, as long as their skin color is correct?

Yes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 03:47 PM (8ZskC)

198 Free the Cliff House !!

Free the National Parks !!

Free the National Monuments. Down with Government Thuggery !!

Posted by: dissent555 at October 09, 2013 03:48 PM (zg32F)

199 #177 Fine with me. I want somebody pissed off as Hell at the ass raping this country has endured by those cocksucking grifters. I don't want boring Bill Bennett to tell me nighty night stories or Gee Whillikers Hannity sucking up to the likes of Rove. Fuck that shit. I draw the line at Savage though. Sweet Jesus he creeps me out.

Posted by: Captain Hate on his iPhone at October 09, 2013 03:48 PM (f7RT6)

200 How did that insane woman get into, let along graduate from Yale and UVA.

"I'm an affirmative-action baby. And proud of it!" -- SJL, speaking to us Rice University students in 1996

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:48 PM (d7tB2)

201 Ron Johnson is the Tea Party candidate from Wisconsin that defeated Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WisconsinForever) using a brilliant campaign relying on his CPA knowledge and a white board. I like him a lot.

Posted by: mama winger at October 09, 2013 07:43 PM (P6QsQ)

I certainly hope he is much better than he sounded. He couldn't (or wouldn't) answer Levin's relatively simple question: "What is the Senate Republican's strategy?" Instead, he danced around and avoided a straight answer. It smacked (and smelled) of typical politician bullshit.

ANYWAY, I'm sure he in INFINITELY better than the my two douchebag Senators - Stabenow and the evil (Carl) Levin...

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 09, 2013 03:49 PM (QdOC1)

202 176 I love the GOP's argument on this. Obamacare was even more popular then they predicted and the website couldn't cope with the demand on day one. This is the argument you want to run with? And you wonder why the GOP is polling lower than any party in the history of polling. Posted by: Fact Man I agree -- to an extent. The GOP foolishly argued four points simultaneously: 1. Obamacare will bankrupt the nation eventually, even if it does get some uninsured to be insured. A poison gift. 2. Obamacare won't even help most people -- in fact, it will cause most people to have their rates raised. It's flawed. 3. No one will sign up for it, anyway. 4. It's so popular that it broke the Internet. Now, in fact, at least three out of those four arguments are true. But when presented en masse, they are a confusing morass. Is the problem that Obamacare hurts us as a nation -- or that it hurts us individually - - or that everyone hates it -- or that the government is incompetent in implementing it? Well, kinda sorta all of those are true. But the problem for the GOP is that the problems seemingly conflict with other, message-wise. They haven't sorted out how to simplify and streamline narratives.

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 03:50 PM (+cx5n)

203 Biggest surprise of this thread: Speaker Boner says something I agree with. Damn skippy! How do you enforce a tax (penalty) for non compliance with a system that doesn't work? Come and get me bitches! Send Queen Sheila (aka CBC nominee for DHS Secretary) over with her "martial law" while you're at it. Abandon the mask! Let the public see who you are! Bunch of socialist, jack booted thugs (minus the knowledge, skill or spin to put your threats into practice). Come pry your $95 dollars from my cold, dead hands and see if it funds the single payor system that Sebellius finally admitted you all really want.

Posted by: Damiano at October 09, 2013 03:50 PM (j0wOO)

204 Who is actually a subject expert in the WH? I want names. I believe they are all incompetent ideologues. No confidence!

Posted by: Feh at October 09, 2013 03:50 PM (g/zj9)

205 can i haz marshall's law? just think of the bargains one can lay hands on!

Posted by: adams discount porn at October 09, 2013 03:50 PM (gQKHE)

206 The Dems want martial law, but what they're gonna get is Marshal Matt Dillon.

Posted by: mrp at October 09, 2013 03:52 PM (HjPtV)

207 Instead, he danced around and avoided a straight answer. It smacked (and smelled) of typical politician bullshit.

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He's pretty inexperienced in doing political-type interviews. He's never held public office before he was elected in 2010 and wasn't all that interested in political stuff till Obama was elected. He started going to Tea Party rallies here in Wisconsin and wound up on the ballot and miraculously beat Feingold. He's a CPA and small business owner. Not real slick, for sure, but I like him.

Posted by: mama winger at October 09, 2013 03:52 PM (P6QsQ)

208 The term martial law has been used before in congressional context as refers to handling govt business during a shutdown. Read it somewhere today.

Posted by: pc at October 09, 2013 03:52 PM (zeWyX)

209 Our morning drivetime Clear Channel station, is two varieties of blancmange,
who notably gave a pass to that weasel McGuinness, our afternoon offering was a host who went on the bashing Christine bandwagon, but was ok on global warming, now we have Rich Sanchez, what Pandora's box did we crack open,

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at October 09, 2013 03:53 PM (Jsiw/)

210 You just know they are going to fold shortly

http://tinyurl.com/m45gkh4

It really is too funny. Destroy their brand with the average middle of the road voter and then fold anyway.

I particularly love how the Koch brothers who were a big part in bringing this on are now distancing themselves from it as they realize the potential disaster they've created.

The US Chamber of commerce have come out publicly and said they will fund the primaries of any Republican member that votes to end the shutdown. What are you TeaParty morons going to use for funding when business tells you all to go jump?

Posted by: Fact Man at October 09, 2013 03:54 PM (VkK2v)

211 208 Fact Man So I take it you enjoy the feeling of bureaucrats exploring your colon?

Posted by: zombie at October 09, 2013 03:55 PM (+cx5n)

212 Fat man is here to skool us in politics

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 09, 2013 03:56 PM (8ZskC)

213 >>208 Fact Man So I take it you enjoy the feeling of bureaucrats exploring your colon? Posted by: zombie Pretty sure that's a given. (Doesn't have to be a bureaucrat either.)

Posted by: Aviator at October 09, 2013 03:57 PM (DI+ja)

214 He's a CPA and small business owner. Not real slick, for sure, but I like him.

Posted by: mama winger at October 09, 2013 07:52 PM (P6QsQ)

Thanks for the info. If he's anything like my "neighboring congressional district House hero Justin Amash" (who explains each and every vote he makes on his FB page, by the way) then I will love him too!

Posted by: Ian Galt at October 09, 2013 03:58 PM (QdOC1)

215 Fact Man, even your posted (NYT) article has the Koch spokesman accusing Reid of "false information" and then saying this: "Koch believes that Obamacare will increase deficits, lead to an overall lowering of the standard of health care and raise taxes".

So you are spinning even harder than the NYT. Perhaps you should call yourself Talking Points Man.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:59 PM (d7tB2)

216 i lurves transparency, diplomacy, and normalcy, but expediency's gots ahold of me!

Posted by: adams 2008+ porn at October 09, 2013 03:59 PM (gQKHE)

217 Fact Man's getting paid to write this drivel, one way or another. Count on it.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 03:59 PM (d7tB2)

218 Shelia, WTF is an Idear? Is that the deer that is going to tip over Guam?

Posted by: John Smith at October 09, 2013 04:00 PM (wR+pz)

219 Remember, Average Joe sucks cock by choice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 09, 2013 04:01 PM (8Fl6F)

220 I'm convinced that the commentors here are right--ObamaCare was designed to tank, right out of the box, so the Democrats could say, "Oh, too bad, but we tried. Guess we need single payer!"

Posted by: Null at October 09, 2013 04:03 PM (xjpRj)

221 I love how trolls always, always, use names like "fact man" or "reality" or "the truth". Hey fuckfaces, we're not the ones who believe in underwear gnomes.

Posted by: Lauren at October 09, 2013 04:12 PM (ELdpj)

222 Also...who the hell is that woman on Drudge? Looks like Ben Franklin in drag. "Early to bed and early to rise lets you try on your missus' stuff, before she gets wise." ---Stuff Ben Franklin Said

Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at October 09, 2013 04:13 PM (m9V0o)

223 It's expensive insurance with no benefits for the lower classes.

Posted by: Dept. Of Acuracy at October 09, 2013 04:15 PM (MhA4j)

224 Lauren: I think it's the same troll. Hector. (And not Average Joe this time)

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at October 09, 2013 04:16 PM (d7tB2)

225 He Black.

Posted by: THEE OPRAH at October 09, 2013 04:18 PM (yL0v8)

226 Are those institutions really so hard up they accept the bottom of the barrel, as long as their skin color is correct? Yes.

Posted by: THEE OPRAH at October 09, 2013 04:19 PM (yL0v8)

227 I'm not sure the left is all that worried about Obamacare in it's current form looking like a clusterf^ck. At some point someone's going to say, "wouldn't it be simpler to have a single payer system?" *wink* *wink*

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2013 04:28 PM (9eDbm)

228 Fact Man loves him some Koch IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: cool arrow at October 09, 2013 04:29 PM (WMsq+)

229 Ron Johnson is trying to argue with Mark Levin?

For his next act, dick, weewhacker, some assembly required...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at October 09, 2013 04:35 PM (qvify)

230 weewhacker = weedwhacker but shit, close enough for gummint work

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at October 09, 2013 04:37 PM (qvify)

231 they dont care if it works or not because they dont want it to work because if it doesnt work then they get their single payer system WHICH IS WHAT THEYVE WANTED THE WHOLE TIME JUST LIKE KATHLEEN SEBELIUS TOLD JON STEWART

Posted by: sound awake at October 09, 2013 04:43 PM (wKPt0)

232 >>>Did anyone actually take one for the team and listen to SJLs rant? I wonder in what crazy way she thinks (feels? randomly says?) martial law will end the shutdown.<<<

This goofy bitch calls for martial law every year. It's just a symptom of her bipolar pendulum swinging back the other way.

Posted by: Fritz at October 09, 2013 04:47 PM (x2W/k)

233 Sheila Jackson Lee's shoe size is higher than her IQ. She should ask her Obamacare provider to ensure that she has a mental health aide by her side at all times, to keep her from falling down.

Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at October 09, 2013 04:55 PM (/sohm)

234 I'm not sure the left is all that worried about Obamacare in it's current form looking like a clusterf^ck. At some point someone's going to say, "wouldn't it be simpler to have a single payer system?" *wink* *wink* Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 09, 2013 08:28 PM (9eDbm) ********************* Yes, except that the "single payer" in their dreamed of "single payer system" is the very same payer who just f*cked up Obamacare -- despite having had years to set it up. After seeing how badly the government messed up the Obamacare roll-out, how many Americans are going to be eager to give the government even more control over their healthcare?

Posted by: Trivial Pursuer at October 09, 2013 05:00 PM (/sohm)

235 "After seeing how badly the government messed up the Obamacare roll-out, how many Americans are going to be eager to give the government even more control over their healthcare?" not only would they fuck up single payer like they fucked up the aca, they would politicize the FUCK out of it like they did the irs, epa, osha, etc. it would be a double whammy of the highest order anyone who owns a gun or goes to church or votes republican would see "mistakes" and "anomolies" start to happen with their health care delivery

Posted by: sound awake at October 09, 2013 05:24 PM (wKPt0)

236 Ironically, she is on the Judiciary subcommittee on "Intellectual Property"....and Border Security.....(sigh..)

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at October 09, 2013 06:35 PM (Wi8QK)

237 Ok OK It's an ObamaDisaster

.. and you probably can't keep your old coverage

There, I said it

Posted by: Pres**ent Barack “Lying Bastard” Obama at October 09, 2013 07:00 PM (e8kgV)

238 The biggest tell is no numbers from the admin on completed signups and actual coverage. *snort*

Posted by: eureka! at October 09, 2013 08:09 PM (AtKPC)

239 3 As for Socialist Elves, however -- those just give me the willies.
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A Socialist Elf who looks like Liv Tyler, on the other hand . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 10, 2013 06:06 AM (BDU/a)

240 Right-wing reporter is right-wing. Yawn.

Posted by: Steve M. at October 10, 2013 06:46 AM (Rywie)

241 Socialist Elves. Are they anything like fleas? Or bedbugs?

Posted by: RebeccaH at October 10, 2013 08:12 AM (Xt3nO)

242

Is anyone suing based on the illegal and fickle waivers being given?

Where is (are) he lawsuit(s)?

We need them now.

Posted by: JAL at October 10, 2013 11:44 AM (9Y2yR)

243 re: "71 Looks like they spent most of their time designing the icons and coming up with clever names for the exchanges, but not much else"--

Let's think about it: Newly enlarged department with lots of money to spend and lots of middle managers; people who have zero experience in analyzing requirements for large enterprise computing systems and managing a really large contract with the programmers who have to really design & code this system; answering to a bunch of politicians who _still_ haven't "read it so they'll know what's in it", so everybody's fighting over the details of how it should work, let alone how it should look; little if any realistic planning for worst cases (more states leaving it to the Fed exchanges, way more looky-loo visitors than serious shoppers the first few days, etc.); and a totally rigid delivery date. How it could it NOT be untested and horribly full of business logic and code defects?

Posted by: Alan at October 10, 2013 11:59 AM (gyNYk)

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