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December 20, 2013

Head Of Oregon Obamacare Exchange Resigns For Personal Reasons And Because The 160 Million Dollar Website Didn't Successfully Sign Up A Single Person, But Mainly Because Of The Failed Website.
— Open Blogger

The head of the Oregon Obamacare exchange resigned just this week. The state spent $160 million dollars on the website and didn't hit their targeted numbers, assuming their targeted numbers were greater than zero.

It was Lawson, chief information officer at the Oregon Health Authority, who decided the state could manage the complex exchange project itself, rather than hire a private-sector systems integrator, a decision since criticized by her superiors. Lawson also was close to Oracle Corp., the California technology giant that has been blamed for doing shoddy work and repeatedly missing deadlines.
Nearly three months after the federal deadline for a functional health exchange website, OregonÂ’s exchange has emerged as a technological train wreck and a PR nightmare. The state has paid more than $160 million and a fully functional site remains weeks Â— perhaps months Â— away.
State officials have been forced to spend even more money gearing up a massive system of temporary employees and contractors to manually process paper applications for health insurance.

Oh and she made $178,992 a year. Everyone should work for the government, they over pay and don't expect results.

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1 Ahhhh....ye olde X and Y, but mostly X makes a return!

Posted by: EC at December 20, 2013 05:04 AM (doBIb)

2 And first, bitches!

Posted by: EC at December 20, 2013 05:05 AM (doBIb)

3 "Okay for government work" taken to its logical extreme.

Posted by: joncelli at December 20, 2013 05:05 AM (RD7QR)

It was Lawson, chief information officer at the Oregon Health Authority, who decided the state could manage the complex exchange project itself, rather than hire a private-sector systems integrator, a decision since criticized by her superiors.

If she hired an outside firm, it would be much harder to hide the graft.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 20, 2013 05:06 AM (gJyfA)

5 Man....think of how much money ace could make running a state gov blog!

Posted by: EC at December 20, 2013 05:06 AM (doBIb)

6 How nice that he wants to spend more time with his family.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 20, 2013 05:07 AM (xkljI)

7 I've *worked* in the private sector. They expect *results*.

Posted by: Dr. Ray Stantz at December 20, 2013 05:08 AM (gXRIG)

8 Eh, good enough for government work. /s

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 20, 2013 05:08 AM (Zswg6)

9 HAA HAA !!! thanks, Nelson.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 20, 2013 05:08 AM (SwHqo)

10 OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 20, 2013 05:09 AM (9U1OG)

11 1 Ahhhh....ye olde X and Y, but mostly X makes a return! Posted by: EC at December 20, 2013 09:04 AM (doBIb) My favorite non-AoSHQ X and Y, but mostly X is by far the running gag in the Fairly Oddparents episode on the Dimmsdale sewer gator. "It's violent AND education, but mostly violent! Yay violence!"

Posted by: AMDG at December 20, 2013 05:10 AM (t7OO0)

12 Sure those $800 toilets seats were expensive, but at least they worked.

Posted by: the Navy at December 20, 2013 05:11 AM (Zswg6)

13 10 OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. Posted by: Jaimo at December 20, 2013 09:09 AM (9U1OG) Slightly ironic, considering I think Drudge had a link up saying he was planning on being senate leader until 2021.

Posted by: AMDG at December 20, 2013 05:11 AM (t7OO0)

14 On topic: I'm sure the Oregon exchange was just gearing up to run ads when the Ducks were in the title game.

Posted by: AMDG at December 20, 2013 05:12 AM (t7OO0)

15 If something happens to Reid ,the next Dem will be just as bad or worse.Remember how happy we were when his predecessor got ousted?

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2013 05:13 AM (zqvg6)

16 Not enough contrast is being drawn to highlight the the advantages of free market capitalism, where competence and convenience brings financial reward, vs government dominant statism, where lack of performance incentive brings predictable results. Obamacide is the residue of one party statism crowding out free markets. There's another name for that type of ism, Â…Â….it'll come to meÂ…Â….

Posted by: ontherocks at December 20, 2013 05:13 AM (wSTd4)

17 The Searchlight Stalker takes I'll, well I hope he gets the same care as he has made available to all of us.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 20, 2013 05:14 AM (Zswg6)

18 If I may quote (with slight emendation) Dr Ray Stantz, founder of Ghostbusters: "Personally, I liked the government health care exchange. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of government! You don't know what it's like out there! I've heard about people who work in the private sector. They expect results."

Posted by: D1St at December 20, 2013 05:15 AM (fIkHQ)

19 Farking autocorrect, that should be ill, not I'll.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 20, 2013 05:15 AM (Zswg6)

20 I wonder if Reid remembered to sign up for health care on the DC exchange?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 20, 2013 05:16 AM (xZQaE)

21 I'M SENDING HARRY A GET WELL DUCK CALL

Posted by: QUACK BACK at December 20, 2013 05:16 AM (Cs2tJ)

22 She'll probably land a gig at OFA as a creative consultant.

Posted by: MacGruber at December 20, 2013 05:17 AM (S+el1)

23 I don't get it. Jamie Gorelick said she'd be totes perfect for the job.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sammich at December 20, 2013 05:18 AM (3ZtZW)

24 About the "brain drain" under which we'd suffer if public sector employees weren't paid enough? Yeah, no evidence for it; none whatsoever.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars [/i] [/b] [/s] at December 20, 2013 05:19 AM (HsTG8)

25 Wish, meet reality. Hope, meet results. Hope & wish, you're fired.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:19 AM (GjYxB)

26 Well, everyone knows women make the best programers and scientist.

Posted by: Larry Summers at December 20, 2013 05:19 AM (0FSuD)

27 I love headlines like this. "Five terrorists assuming room temperature due to well-placed Hellfire and a rising income gap, but mostly a well-placed Hellfire"

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at December 20, 2013 05:20 AM (fwARV)

28 I like the way way the Chinese handle their crooked failures. Not honest failures but the ones like this where I am sure there have been some kick backs. They take them out behind the factory and shoot them in the head.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at December 20, 2013 05:20 AM (XIxXP)

29 >>If something happens to Reid ,the next Dem will be just as bad or worse.Remember how happy we were when his predecessor got ousted? Would probably be either Schumer or Durbin. Oy.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2013 05:21 AM (g1DWB)

30 They take them out behind the factory and shoot them in the head. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at December 20, 2013 09:20 AM (XIxXP) AND make their family pay for the bullet.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2013 05:21 AM (0FSuD)

31 OMG, is she going to have to sell her matched set of unicorns?

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Weary and Wary at December 20, 2013 05:22 AM (kXoT0)

32 [Immensely tasteless comment about The Searchlight Strangler deleted]

I'm trying to be a good boy for Christmas.

Posted by: joncelli at December 20, 2013 05:22 AM (RD7QR)

33 The head of the Oregon Obamacare exchange resigned just this week.

God
Damn
It

Heads should be rolling over this lunacy. Duh!1 is still a dunce.
At best.

Posted by: backhoe at December 20, 2013 05:22 AM (ULH4o)

34 So we have a big meeting with some State people in about a half hour and, geez, no cake! WTF is wrong with these people?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sammich at December 20, 2013 05:23 AM (3ZtZW)

35 AND make their family pay for the bullet. Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2013 09:21 AM (0FSuD) Forgot about that, thanks.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at December 20, 2013 05:23 AM (XIxXP)

36 10 OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. Posted by: Jaimo at December 20, 2013 09:09 AM (9U1OG) Â–--------------- Did he ask to be taken to Children's Hospital?

Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at December 20, 2013 05:24 AM (7Y+gf)

37 I care not a whit for Harry Reid or his affliction for which he has been hospitalized. But who, who will care for all the young children he has imprisoned in his "playpen" while he is incapacitated?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars [/i] [/b] [/s] at December 20, 2013 05:24 AM (HsTG8)

38 So that's Oregon and Minnesota both saying "buh-bye" to their Obammycare administrators. Which state will be next, boys and girls? Let's spin the wheel and find out!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/s][/u][/b] at December 20, 2013 05:25 AM (4df7R)

39 How many states spent $160 million on websites? In addition to the $650 million or whatever the feds spent?

Posted by: Canuckistan at December 20, 2013 05:26 AM (S3mpu)

40 >>So that's Oregon and Minnesota both saying "buh-bye" to their Obammycare administrators. Which state will be next, boys and girls? Let's spin the wheel and find out! Maryland is a strong contender.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2013 05:26 AM (g1DWB)

41 OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 20, 2013 09:09 AM (9U1OG)

*trying to dredge up an ounce of sympathy, empathy or simple compassion*

*failing*

Yeah, I officially don't give a shit. Say hi to Teddy K. when you see him, Hairy!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/s][/u][/b] at December 20, 2013 05:27 AM (4df7R)

42 BEN! Please check your email.

Posted by: lauraw at December 20, 2013 05:27 AM (yGblt)

10: " OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized."

It is both unkind and un-Christian of me, but for some reason, I am unable to muster any sympathy or bad feelings over this.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 20, 2013 05:27 AM (v6cwT)

44 I'm trying to be a good boy for Christmas.

Posted by: joncelli at December 20, 2013 09:22 AM (RD7QR)

It's a bit late for that, don't you think?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2013 05:28 AM (DrWcr)

45 Sometimes history teaches itself.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 20, 2013 05:28 AM (SUKHu)

46 Well rons, in this Christmas season I have had some challenges I must address. The TV died and the one we bough only plays in mono. Repairman coming out today. AND the cherry on the to of the sunday, my McMansion has sprung a leak. I have a water stain on the ceiling of the master bath in the water closet. That makes the savings account tremble. I must climb up into the ceiling spaces and find it. I must go. Have a great day my friends, later.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at December 20, 2013 05:28 AM (XIxXP)

47 Ahhh yes. Because Government *always* knows better. These exchanges were presented with the Herculean task of functionally replicating the selectquote website...with a few lookups to verify income and stuff. The number of wheels that have eben recreated from scratch (incorrectly) because some progressive somewhere thought he or she knew better than human nature...it's simply mindboggling. Now you have consultants tripping over contractors while they're trying to backstab asskissers. Everyone's fighting to stay in or stay out of the crosshairs of the limelight...and occasionally the Governor shows up. Remember when they were describing the asteroid in Armageddon...and they just settled on "worst environment imaginable". From an IT perspective, I'm not entirely sure how one would make it much worse if they actually tried.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 05:28 AM (EiDLD)

48 "Uncle" Harry is in the hospital and he asked be to come over for a "visit". Going to wear my plaid PJ's.

Posted by: Little Johnny at December 20, 2013 05:28 AM (0FSuD)

49 Web site worked fine. It's function was to move $150M from the public treasury to some dear close friends of the DNC who started software companies for just this site.

Same as the billion for the national site, but funnier 'cause of the Zero.

Posted by: Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder at December 20, 2013 05:29 AM (6iOjB)

50 These are the people that tell us it will be MORE expensive to repeal.

Uh, huh. Right. And also, they'll stop getting their sweet, sweet government for doing...not that much at all, really.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2013 05:29 AM (ruxvM)

51 Let the bodies drop and the heads roll

In fact let Red Shetland sort out their problems.
http://youtu.be/a8tLpntpQOc

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 20, 2013 05:30 AM (Zm0GY)

52 Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. No comment.

Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 05:30 AM (MMC8r)

53 OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 20, 2013 09:09 AM (9U1OG)

Harry Reid: Those young rascals are wearing me out chasing after them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 20, 2013 05:30 AM (1Jaio)

>>>It is both unkind and un-Christian of me, but for some reason, I am unable to muster any sympathy or bad feelings over this.

Given that if it were, say, Dubya, the Lefties would be out in the streets dancing? I'm alright with passively not giving a damn, either. I'd muster up more hate-squared but life's too short to wallow in that crap.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sammich at December 20, 2013 05:30 AM (3ZtZW)

55 "Everyone should work for the government, they over pay and don't expect results." Results are racist.

Posted by: Bronco Bama at December 20, 2013 05:31 AM (Qt/d2)

56 Hey guys, I'm applying for one of those government Obama Website Admin jobs. IT, no problem. I will just hire some Pajama Boy clones, get them out of mama's basement and Get 'R' done. It couldn't turn out any worse than the crap sandwich King Barry and his minions have cooked up.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_Bean at December 20, 2013 05:31 AM (Oxi7U)

57 So that's Oregon and Minnesota both saying "buh-bye" to their Obammycare administrators. Which state will be next, boys and girls? Let's spin the wheel and find out! Maryland is a strong contender. Already did. MN's went to Bahama's(?). Maryland's vacay'd in the Caymans. Resigned also.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:31 AM (GjYxB)

58 Quick, somebody find a hipster douchebag, stuff him into a flannel onesie, and make an ad that will resonate with Reed College students. That'll fix the problem!

Posted by: PabloD at December 20, 2013 05:31 AM (TM5Op)

59 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 05:31 AM (PYAXX)

60 . Lawson also was close to Oracle Corp., Suck it Ellison! You ask for a clusterfuck? I give you the A . . . C . . . A.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 05:32 AM (VtjlW)

61 44 I'm trying to be a good boy for Christmas.
Posted by: joncelli at December 20, 2013 09:22 AM (RD7QR)

It's a bit late for that, don't you think?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2013 09:28 AM (DrWcr)

Shhhhhh. I still want a BB gun.

Posted by: joncelli at December 20, 2013 05:32 AM (RD7QR)

62 >> Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. We won't try to pass anything every again. Now will you stop saying we're heartless??

Posted by: Republicans at December 20, 2013 05:32 AM (SUKHu)

63 But... but... I thought we were supposed to "look to the States" for Exchanges that were working properly. You mean that was a lie, too?!? More seriously- if SCOAMT told me that water was wet, I'd double check first just to make sure he wasn't lying.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 05:33 AM (PYAXX)

64 This country is run by people too incompetent to do the job done by IT professionals EVERY DAY. Our 'best and brightest.' No wonder we're fucked at every level.

Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 05:33 AM (MMC8r)

>>>Quick, somebody find a hipster douchebag, stuff him into a flannel onesie, and make an ad that will resonate with Reed College students. That'll fix the problem!

No! A fat hispanic baby! Everybody loves fat hispanic babies!

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sammich at December 20, 2013 05:33 AM (3ZtZW)

66 It's a shame he didn't fall ill on Jan1st, when everyone is going to be a bit confused over who's covered, which hospitals and doctors are included, etc.
I know, probably won't affect Congress, just us serfs.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2013 05:34 AM (ruxvM)

67 Yeah, Maryland's resigned right a week or two back. The blame here should have been pointed elsewhere, of course.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 05:34 AM (EiDLD)

68 10 OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 20, 2013 09:09 AM (9U1OG)

Well, let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Posted by: Basil Fawlty at December 20, 2013 05:34 AM (e4elg)

69 OK so what was he hospitalized for, anyhow? Really.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sammich at December 20, 2013 05:35 AM (3ZtZW)

70 Enrollment numbers are surging - could we get folks in the media to start asking about *actually effectuated coverage* please? That will get the train moving quite a bit faster down the tracks.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 05:35 AM (EiDLD)

71 Government has utterly failed at accomplishing what Priceline did 20 years ago.

Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 05:35 AM (MMC8r)

72 Is it okay to pray for him to get well, just not well enough to return to being in the senate anymore?

Posted by: Dandolo at December 20, 2013 05:36 AM (0XBx+)

73 I'm trying to be a good boy for Christmas.

Posted by: joncelli at December 20, 2013 09:22 AM (RD7QR)

Nonsense! I live by this: "What do bad girls get for Christmas?"

Answer: "Anything they want."

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Weary and Wary at December 20, 2013 05:36 AM (kXoT0)

74 41 OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized.
Posted by: Jaimo at December 20, 2013 09:09 AM (9U1OG)

*trying to dredge up an ounce of sympathy, empathy or simple compassion*

*failing*

Yeah, I officially don't give a shit. Say hi to Teddy K. when you see him, Hairy! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit

I'm with you. As we used to say down South when a speeder roared by us on the road?

"Go faster, Brother- Hell ain't half full...."

Posted by: backhoe at December 20, 2013 05:36 AM (ULH4o)

Everyone should work for the government, they over pay and don't expect results.

Truer words were never spoken.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2013 05:36 AM (zF6Iw)

76 OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. ***** Did he leave a key to the basement with a helpful neighbor?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 20, 2013 05:37 AM (N/Sup)

77 It's a shame he didn't fall ill on Jan1st, when everyone is going to be a bit confused over who's covered, which hospitals and doctors are included, etc. Assuming Congress would be affected (they won't be- they gave themselves an explicit exemption, remember?), then this is actually much better schadenfreude. I've seen how f'd up it can get going from one policy to another in the middle of a hospitalization in normal circumstances. Seeing it happen to the Searchlight Strangler during the 404Care debacle? Priceless.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 05:37 AM (PYAXX)

78 Is it okay to pray for him to get well, just not well enough to return to being in the senate anymore? Democrats never resign. They kept a guy in office after a massive stroke recently. Gabby Giffords, too.

Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 05:37 AM (MMC8r)

79 OK so what was he hospitalized for, anyhow? Really.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sammich at December 20, 2013 09:35 AM (3ZtZW)

All I can find are reports that he wasn't feeling well. I guess chasing little boys finally wore him out.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2013 05:37 AM (DrWcr)

OT, Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized.

Good.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2013 05:38 AM (zF6Iw)

81 WTH? How the heck can they spend that much just for one state website (or one website, period)? That is insane. On a per capita basis, that makes HealthCare.gov seem like a bargain.

Posted by: Baldy at December 20, 2013 05:38 AM (2bql3)

82 Democrats never resign. They kept a guy in office after a massive stroke recently. Gabby Giffords, too. Sometimes even being dead isn't enough to get them removed from office.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 05:38 AM (PYAXX)

83 Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. His gift to all the little boys and girls, two weeks without a "visit".

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2013 05:38 AM (0FSuD)

84 Reminder: the one federal person who has been fired so far was fired for saying there was a problem.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 20, 2013 05:39 AM (SUKHu)

85 Is Harry on Obamacare?

Posted by: Votermom at December 20, 2013 05:39 AM (GSIDW)

86 OK so what was he hospitalized for, anyhow? Really.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sammich at December 20, 2013 09:35 AM (3ZtZW)

The story at Drudge says it was for "not feeling well." Yeah, okay.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/s][/u][/b] at December 20, 2013 05:39 AM (4df7R)

87 "Democrats never resign."

True Dat! Robert KKK Byrd was the most notable example, with Teddy K a close second.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Weary and Wary at December 20, 2013 05:39 AM (kXoT0)

88 Speaking of clusterfuckery, I'm working on something right now where, Because Reasons, there are five separate actions involving the same set of parties. Are the same sets of parties always the plaintiffs and/or defendants in those five actions? Ahahahahahahahahaha no. Guess who got tasked by everyone from both sides to sort out just what the hell is going on? *headdesks forever* My suggestion of kill it with fire did not go over quite as well as I had hoped.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 05:39 AM (VtjlW)

89 How the heck can they spend that much just for one state website (or one website, period)? Really? Embezzlement. On a per capita basis, that makes HealthCare.gov seem like a bargain. We haven't seen the final price-tag on Healthcare.gov, yet. I wouldn't make any large wagers on that remaining the case.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 05:40 AM (PYAXX)

90 Why is it reading about Harry Reid makes me think of Acts 12:20-23?

Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 05:40 AM (MMC8r)

91 Everyone should work for the government, they over pay and don't expect results. Truer words were never spoken. Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2013 09:36 AM (zF6Iw) ***** Hey, now, I work for the government and... ...well, I guess you have a valid point.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 20, 2013 05:40 AM (N/Sup)

92 49 Web site worked fine. It's function was to move $150M from the public treasury to some dear close friends of the DNC who started software companies for just this site.

Same as the billion for the national site, but funnier 'cause of the Zero.

Posted by: Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder at December 20, 2013 09:29 AM (6iOjB)

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

^^ this. Just like every renewable energy or electric car project funded by DOE.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 20, 2013 05:41 AM (HubSo)

93 "They took the rabbit! So what happens now, Sir Lawson-Bedevere?"

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 20, 2013 05:41 AM (BAS5M)

94 Another thing I have in common with Alexthechick, my first thought was also "suck it Ellison"

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at December 20, 2013 05:41 AM (RZ8pf)

95 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 09:39 AM (VtjlW) Here. {shoves piece of his birthday cake through USB port} Seems like you need it.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 05:41 AM (PYAXX)

96 Nonsense! I live by this: "What do bad girls get for Christmas?" Answer: "Anything they want." Posted by: Sherry McEvil How YOU[i/] doin'?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:41 AM (GjYxB)

97 Just like every renewable energy or electric car project funded by DOE.

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

And don't get me started on high-speed rail.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 20, 2013 05:42 AM (HubSo)

98 Hmmmm. Does that $160 million include the advertising budget, or is there actually more that was wasted on this absolute failure in Oregon?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2013 05:42 AM (ruxvM)

99 Also- what happens to the Senate (which still has business pending, IIRC) while Reid is indisposed? Is it still in session just w/o the Majority leader?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 05:42 AM (PYAXX)

100 I'm just going to put this here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjzC1Dgh17A

Posted by: Emperor Norton II at December 20, 2013 05:42 AM (MlqTY)

101 >>My suggestion of kill it with fire did not go over quite as well as I had hoped. Go on...

Posted by: Oregon Obamacare Exchange at December 20, 2013 05:43 AM (SUKHu)

102 Wait...if Oracle "messed up the project" how is that "not hiring outside consultants". Oracle is a data management consulting company. They have an army of data and IT consultants. $160 million over 3 years should get you a working website from Oracle. (I'm not being snarky here...I'm 100% serious). I see what happened, the Obama Administration delayed key regulations until after the 2012 elections, which screwed up their development and testing timelines.

Posted by: Xmas at December 20, 2013 05:43 AM (JoscM)

103 "Oh and she made $178,992 a year." She's only in the government out of sense of patriotic duty. She could make 5 times that in the private sector doing the exact same job.

Posted by: Typical GS 1 million pain in the ass civilian at December 20, 2013 05:43 AM (G7Yr9)

104 No![i/]

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:43 AM (GjYxB)

105 Why is it reading about Harry Reid makes me think of Acts 12:20-23?

Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 09:40 AM (MMC8r)

Herod Reid?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2013 05:44 AM (DrWcr)

106 WTF?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:44 AM (GjYxB)

107 Maybe he just wanted to spend more time at home with his failure.

Posted by: Dang at December 20, 2013 05:44 AM (MNq6o)

108 102 Wait...if Oracle "messed up the project" how is that "not hiring outside consultants". Someone has to *manage* the project. Sounds like the Oregon State Government thought it could do a better job than anyone in the industry at this somewhat critical task.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 05:44 AM (EiDLD)

109 Don't worry folks, $59 million of the money was Federal money, so that doesn't really count.

http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/10/cover_oregon_health_exchange_m.html

Posted by: Xmas at December 20, 2013 05:45 AM (JoscM)

110 71 Governmenthas utterly failed ataccomplishing what Priceline did 20 years ago. Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 09:35 AM (MMC8r) Have you... Signed up for... Your healthcare?

Posted by: William Shatner at December 20, 2013 05:45 AM (ePQIH)

111 Guess who got tasked by everyone from both sides to sort out just what the hell is going on?

*headdesks forever*

My suggestion of kill it with fire did not go over quite as well as I had hoped.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 09:39 AM (VtjlW)

** Pushes Moet and Godiva through the USB port to ATC....you need it more, my liege. **

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Weary and Wary at December 20, 2013 05:45 AM (kXoT0)

112 97 Just like every renewable energy or electric car project funded by DOE.

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And don't get me started on high-speed rail.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

You rang?
( It's actually The Heavy Equipment Guy- backhoe. A sock....

Posted by: Hi! Speed! Rail! at December 20, 2013 05:45 AM (ULH4o)

113 Someone has to *manage* the project. Sounds like the Oregon State Government thought it could do a better job than anyone in the industry at this somewhat critical task.

Posted by: akula51 at December 20, 2013 09:44 AM (EiDLD)

Same mindset as King Barry XIV.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2013 05:45 AM (DrWcr)

114 113 Same mindset as King Barry XIV. Good leadership. Bad leadership. Both trickle down through an identical pathway, yep.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 05:46 AM (EiDLD)

115 Sometimes even being dead isn't enough to get them removed from office. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 09:38 AM (PYAXX) True. Never stops 'em from voting either.

Posted by: Dandolo at December 20, 2013 05:46 AM (0XBx+)

116 For $178,992 a year, I could fuck up a $130 million website. Just show me where to sign up!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2013 05:46 AM (DrWcr)

117 Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. **** It turns out that spilled hot chocolate will scald you right through flannel PJ's.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 20, 2013 05:46 AM (N/Sup)

118 Also... on the delayed Individual Mandate thing... 1st- TEA Party Republicans should start running "We told you so!" ads immediately. 2nd- How does that not violate the 14th Amendment? nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 05:46 AM (PYAXX)

119 ** Pushes Moet and Godiva through the USB port to ATC....you need it more, my liege. ** Posted by: Sherry McEvil Push her an 8 ball & syringe for her eye.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:46 AM (GjYxB)

120 *Ahem*
We offered to do this for free. Obama and HHS declined.

Posted by: IBM at December 20, 2013 05:47 AM (ruxvM)

121 This must be the story Attkisson was referring to yesterday (?).... CBS: Top ObamaCare official wanted site shut down over security risks Â– and was overruled http://tinyurl.com/lepbzed

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 20, 2013 05:47 AM (bCEmE)

122 Someone has to *manage* the project. Sounds like the Oregon State Government thought it could do a better job than anyone in the industry at this somewhat critical task. A customer who knows everything and nothing screws up everything. Take the hubris of a government official managing something they know nothing about and you're asking for trouble.

Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 05:47 AM (MMC8r)

123 116 Just show me where to sign up! This was one where it was definitely best to avoid the initial implementations and focus on the clean-up work. Thankfully that was obvious to many of us ANSI X12 SMEs very early in the process. It honestly made for a surprisingly lean 2013 - but 2014 is looking pretty bright...lol

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 05:48 AM (EiDLD)

124 For $178,992 a year, I could fuck up a $130 million website. Just show me where to sign up! I'll save Oregon taxpayers money & do it for half!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:48 AM (GjYxB)

125 Is it okay to pray for him to get well, just not well enough to return to being in the senate anymore?

Posted by: Dandolo at December 20, 2013 09:36 AM (0XBx+)

You are welcome to pray however your conscience dictates. ^_^

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/s][/u][/b] at December 20, 2013 05:48 AM (4df7R)

126 Anna, how in the name of all that is Holy in this life and the next did you find THAT!?!? A huge-titted sword-fighting Shetland pony set to the song "Valley Girl"? I thought MY intertube searches were weird, but . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at December 20, 2013 05:48 AM (8+xjO)

127 If something happens to Reid ,the next Dem will be just as bad or worse.Remember how happy we were when his predecessor got ousted?

Would probably be either Schumer or Durbin. Oy.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2013 09:21 AM (g1DWB)

They could prop Reid's lifeless carcass up in the Senate and he'd be just as effective in getting a budget passed. Plus he probably wouldn't smell any worse.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 20, 2013 05:49 AM (LNl4P)

128 We offered to do this for free. Obama and HHS declined. 'Free' disrupts the flow of graft.

Posted by: --- at December 20, 2013 05:49 AM (MMC8r)

129 Are there different courses of action, in each case?

Posted by: jeffrey pelt at December 20, 2013 05:49 AM (VYGs9)

130 They could prop Reid's lifeless carcass up in the Senate and he'd be just as effective in getting a budget passed. Plus he probably wouldn't smell any worse. Posted by: Captain Hate at December 20, 2013 09:49 AM (LNl4P) Yeah, and we would be much safer.

Posted by: Congressional Pages at December 20, 2013 05:50 AM (0XBx+)

131 OT: BREAKING - Harry Reid hospitalized. May he get Obamacare good and hard.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2013 05:51 AM (olDqf)

132 The sad part about this story is that people, even our people, think this is unusual. A government employee making $180K spends $150 million on something that doesn't work? Happens every day.

Posted by: jwest at December 20, 2013 05:51 AM (u2a4R)

133 Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. ***** Probably just needed a big injection of penisillin.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 20, 2013 05:51 AM (N/Sup)

134 Is it okay to pray for him to get well, just not well enough to return to being in the senate anymore? Posted by: Dandolo at December 20, 2013 09:36 AM (0XBx+) You are welcome to pray however your conscience dictates. ^_^ Dear God, Please strike the pederast down. Amen.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:51 AM (GjYxB)

135 What does hater Phil Robertson have to say about this?

Posted by: The Perpetually Offended (TPO) at December 20, 2013 05:52 AM (nsOJa)

136 I remember reading an article about how the contractors for the federal exchange created flowcharts for how the state exchanges need to work. But Obama, in his infallible wisdom, decided that they shouldn't send the flowcharts to the states because if it ever got out how complicated it was, he would be ridiculed.

So the states did not get any kind of overall framework for how their exchanges needed to work. Brilliant, huh?

Posted by: Marmo at December 20, 2013 05:52 AM (QW+AD)

137

It is both unkind and un-Christian of me, but for some reason, I am unable to muster any sympathy or bad feelings over this.

Me too, only I seem to be able to muster quite of bit of happy, happy, happy.

I think I'll go pray. Seriously, these people are causing me to put my immortal soul in danger.

Posted by: FITP at December 20, 2013 05:52 AM (e4i/A)

138 Guess who got tasked by everyone from both sides to sort out just what the hell is going on?

*headdesks forever*

My suggestion of kill it with fire did not go over quite as well as I had hoped.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 09:39 AM (VtjlW)

That sounds very much like the grant I've been roped in to help with. It's apparently a superbigimportantawesome grant that we absolutely HAVE to apply for. There doesn't appear to be anybody who's actually in charge of the whole thing, no one knows who's responsible for what, and when I ask for clarification I keep getting, "Just guess," as an answer. That does not make MWR a happy little camper. It's like I'm one arm of a flailing octopus that's missing a body.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/i][/s][/u][/b] at December 20, 2013 05:52 AM (4df7R)

139 You rang?

Posted by: Arne Duncan - Secretary of Education at December 20, 2013 05:52 AM (0XBx+)

140 Govt workers are the USA's equivalent of the USSR's "Party Members" They are paid big money, receive benefits like insurance and pensions that nobody else receives, and they get all these goodies by taking them from the rest of us by force. I'm waiting for when those "special stores" open up that are only for the government workers, just like in the old USSR. The People's Cube website is looking more and more like a roadmap every day. Sheesh....

Posted by: whyme at December 20, 2013 05:53 AM (l9mF2)

141 >>This must be the story Attkisson was referring to yesterday (?).... >>CBS: Top ObamaCare official wanted site shut down over security risks Â– and was overruled I'd say this was stunning but nothing this administration does shocks me anymore. They knowingly encouraged citizens to put their confidential information on a site they designed knowing it was full of security risks and then lied about knowing about the security issues repeatedly before Congress. It used to be that shit was illegal.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2013 05:53 AM (g1DWB)

142 131

OT: BREAKING -

Harry Reid hospitalized.

May he get Obamacare good and hard.

Posted by: J.J. Sefto

Shut 'er down- thread winner right there.

Posted by: backhoe at December 20, 2013 05:53 AM (ULH4o)

143 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2013 05:53 AM (GjYxB)

144 A government employee making $180K spends $150 million on something that doesn't work? Happens every day. Posted by: jwest at December 20, 2013 09:51 AM (u2a4R) You rang?

Posted by: Arne Duncan - Secretary of Education at December 20, 2013 05:53 AM (0XBx+)

145 It honestly made for a surprisingly lean 2013 - but 2014 is looking pretty bright...lol Posted by: akula51 at December 20, 2013 09:48 AM (EiDLD)

Oh yeah. If you can spell SQL, there is full employment in the health care space for as far as the eye can see--because the vast majority Americans are used to having health insurance, so things are going to done over and over again until folks are at least minimally satisfied. I know this is very cynical, but, wait until the bodies start piling up--real middle class people are going to die due to 404Care and then the excrement will truly hit the whirling air movement systems.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Weary and Wary at December 20, 2013 05:54 AM (kXoT0)

146 136 So the states did not get any kind of overall framework for how their exchanges needed to work. Brilliant, huh? True story. In many cases, specs (where they even exist) still aren't finalized. Folks are coding to pre-clearance drafts and what-not. It's insanity - but worse than that, it's insanity FULL SPEED AHEAD!

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 05:54 AM (EiDLD)

147 ** Pushes Moet and Godiva through the USB port to ATC....you need it more, my liege. ** Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Weary and Wary at December 20, 2013 09:45 AM (kXoT0) Thank you. *guzzles and noms* Allen, did I miss your birthday? Happy happy! Honestly, if Oracle managed this and FUBAR'd it this badly, that's a huge black eye for Oracle. After all, Oracle presents itself as the gold standard data management company. I'm going to take a few guesses here and say that this project wasn't given the highest priority. Why? Because the private sector expects results. Miss those deadlines and you get sued. Miss the one for the state? Why, that's an extension to the contract!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 05:54 AM (VtjlW)

148 If accused pederast Harry Reid got a penicillin shot, his whole body would be destroyed, since he's one big virus.

Posted by: Marmo at December 20, 2013 05:54 AM (QW+AD)

149
Harry "Tiberius" Reid: The nurse asked if she could bring me anything. I said, some of my "minnows" would make me feel better

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 20, 2013 05:54 AM (1Jaio)

150 According to the Weekly Standard in an article which detailed what a miserable fuck he was over a year ago, the Searchlight Pederast has had a series of small strokes.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 20, 2013 05:55 AM (LNl4P)

151 Tests have been conducted and everything is normal. He is alert, resting and feeling better,Â” Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson said. Â“Doctors have asked that he remain in the hospital for observation so he will not be working today.Â”

The Senate has been pulling a series of all-nighters the last two weeks as Republicans force Democrats to run out the clock on dozens of nominations, retaliation for Reid triggering the so-called Â“nuclear optionÂ” and changing the filibuster rules on some nominations in November. Such sessions can be tough on an aged Senate. Reid is 74.

time.com

Posted by: willow at December 20, 2013 05:56 AM (nqBYe)

152 While the passing of Reid would be a much appreciated Christmas gift, don't get your hopes up. They'll just reanimate the corpse. Hope instead for a long painful debilitating illness. Preferably an embarrassing one with lots of incontinency.

Posted by: toby928© Of Crazy Toby's Health-arama at December 20, 2013 05:57 AM (QupBk)

153

So I take it this post is in place of the dump?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2013 05:58 AM (zF6Iw)

154 Dingy Harry the Pederast Reid has been hospitalized. **** ALLOW ME TO TRANSLATE FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED: Tap two fingers in palm three times, finger over lips in 'shushing' gesture, up twinkles, 'wax on, wax off, clap twice, cupped hand into armpit while flapping the other arm, jazz hands to the right, jazz hands to the left, Hook 'em Horns, two fingers up bunny hopping from left to right, tap two fingers in palm three times again, draw imaginary "smiley face" in mid air with index finger.

Posted by: Seamus "fake sign language guy" Muldoon at December 20, 2013 05:58 AM (N/Sup)

155

"Oh and she made $178,992 a year. Everyone should work for the government, they over pay and don't expect results."

That which cannot go on forever, will not go on forever.

Posted by: Sam In VA at December 20, 2013 06:00 AM (Q52VH)

156 While the passing of Reid would be a much appreciated Christmas gift, don't get your hopes up. They'll just reanimate the corpse. Hope instead for a long painful debilitating illness. Preferably an embarrassing one with lots of incontinency.

Posted by: toby928Â© Of Crazy Toby's Health-arama at December 20, 2013 09:57 AM (QupBk)

Can you imagine the hospital staff that would have to clean up that miserable compost heap? As if their existence hadn't been made more difficult by him and his fellow commiecrats. Hopefully they strap his disgusting body to a gurney and roll him through a car wash.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 20, 2013 06:00 AM (LNl4P)

157 138 My suggestion of kill it with fire did not go over quite as well as I had hoped. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 09:39 AM (VtjlW) You weren't wearing Stompy boots, were you, when you suggested this? Stompy boots command, nay, demand, respect!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars [/i] [/b] [/s] at December 20, 2013 06:00 AM (HsTG8)

158 alex tea.

The Senate has been pulling a series of all-nighters the last two
weeks as Republicans force Democrats to run out the clock.---
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as republicans force.. well republicans fault i guess.

Posted by: willow at December 20, 2013 06:00 AM (nqBYe)

159 ...everything is normal. He is alert... ***** Wait. What? This is Harry Reid we're talking about, right?

Posted by: Seamus at December 20, 2013 06:00 AM (N/Sup)

160 That sounds very much like the grant I've been roped in to help with. It's apparently a superbigimportantawesome grant that we absolutely HAVE to apply for. There doesn't appear to be anybody who's actually in charge of the whole thing, no one knows who's responsible for what, and when I ask for clarification I keep getting, "Just guess," as an answer. That does not make MWR a happy little camper. It's like I'm one arm of a flailing octopus that's missing a body. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at December 20, 2013 09:52 AM (4df7R) *shoves scuba diver through USB port for you* Earlier this year we had this superbigimportant thing to do and part of it required that we send the other side a substantial number of documents. The guy in charge on the other side sent this long email that had a handy numbered list of all the documents. I got the documents together, printed out the email, then put the documents in order by the list with a handy little ticky mark next to each one to make sure I had them all. Scan, email, bingo bango done. Other guy sent this very nice email to my boss about how he'd done hundreds of these things and how my package was one of the best organized he'd ever seen. I boggled at that. I mean, yay compliment to me, but how the hell else would you do it? As I told my boss, I didn't put it in order for him, I put it in order for me so that I could ticky that I sent everything. It never crossed my mind to do it any other way.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 06:01 AM (VtjlW)

161 Seamus, well He is always alert to kicking the Country s ass.

Posted by: willow at December 20, 2013 06:01 AM (nqBYe)

162 Oh oh. Now you did it. Dear Reader is going to give us a press conference today, per Drudge (doesn't say when or if about anus/vagina, PJs, South Sudan, or his golf score)

Posted by: Baldy at December 20, 2013 06:02 AM (2bql3)

163 It never crossed my mind to do it any other way.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at December 20, 2013 10:01 AM (VtjlW)

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

The curse of being competent is that you get more to do.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 20, 2013 06:02 AM (HubSo)

164 ...everything is normal. He is alert... ***** Will he be able to play the violin after the surgery?

Posted by: Seamus "obscure joke references R Us" Muldoon at December 20, 2013 06:02 AM (N/Sup)

165 2nd- How does that not violate the 14th Amendment? nor shall anyState deprive anyperson of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at December 20, 2013 I'm beginning to wonder when I see comments like this on conservative sites. The pattern has gone on long enough to be considered a Law of Nature at this point: These people do not give one single, solitary fuck about "legal". The only way they factor it in at all is in the context of its being an obstacle to be worked around. Imagine walking down the aisle of your local grocery store, and some idiot has left a cart parked in the middle of it. You step around and keep walking. When we hear a story on the news about people getting hacked to death with machetes in a sub Saharan African hellhole, we don't ask, "Don't the machete men know that's wrong?". At this point, we're so far past that question, you might as well not bother asking. Is it legal? No. But if the opposition party has no teeth and the legal system has no balls to stop any of it, the question stops being, "What are THEY going to do about this?" and becomes "What am *I* going to do about this?"

Posted by: William Shatner at December 20, 2013 06:03 AM (ePQIH)

166 akula51,

Oracle can manage a project of this size. I don't think another layer of outside consultants would fix the root of the problem: politically driven over-optimistic timelines tied to purposefully overcomplicated and/or delayed politically driven functional requirements. That Oracle only took $160 million from state shows remarkable foresight and restraint on their part.

Posted by: Xmas at December 20, 2013 06:03 AM (JoscM)

167 Off, Shatner sock.

Posted by: Secundus at December 20, 2013 06:04 AM (ePQIH)

168 by hospital they likely meant a day resort with all the trimmings.
I hope they do take care of his smelly foot problem.

Posted by: willow at December 20, 2013 06:05 AM (nqBYe)

169 167 Oracle can manage a project of this size. Of course they can. If it's in their contract to do so. It wasn't based on what i'm reading - the State managed the PMO. That contract was written by someone in Oregon. That's where the problem lies.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 06:05 AM (EiDLD)

170 If you give me a task order that says "go write this code", I'm going to go write some code. If you give me a task order that places my organization in charge of the entire software development life cycle for a system this complex, I'm going to do a fuck-ton more than write some code.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 20, 2013 06:07 AM (EiDLD)

171 It never crossed my mind to do it any other way.>>

I quite often get called over to a piece of lab equipment that one of my co workers will say is broken. Step through the normal start up procedure and it works just fine. They think I'm magic.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 20, 2013 06:07 AM (tf9Ne)

172 Mr. Reid was hospitalized because he was feeling poorly.

Posted by: Little boy named "Poorly". at December 20, 2013 06:07 AM (N/Sup)

173 I'm trying really hard not to wish the worst for Reid. It is hard to have compassion on those that have actively worked to harm my family and me.

Posted by: dogfish at December 20, 2013 06:08 AM (nsOJa)

174 New one

Posted by: Seamus at December 20, 2013 06:11 AM (N/Sup)

175 I wonder if the stress of losing the Senate is getting to Harry

Posted by: Jean at December 20, 2013 06:23 AM (4JkHl)

176 Good thing having a big ol' gap in insurance coverage isn't important or anything. I mean, who gets sick these days?

Posted by: ULTRAMARINE at December 20, 2013 06:39 AM (yhJhK)

177 I work for the government. I have been shunned and cut out of meetings for producing results lately. You can't make the highers feel threatened by your talent or knowledge. You must sit quietly and take it and keep providing the product for them to claim. I love the people at the agency, but it may be time to head out for my own sanity.

Posted by: hazchic at December 20, 2013 08:16 AM (vDgKz)

178 ...and repeatedly missing deadlines. Given the circumstances, they probably couldn't have been met anyway, regardless of how much money was spent.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 20, 2013 08:21 AM (MPG6L)

179 Quick, someone send Dingy Harry a bouquet and get-well card signed by the Tea Party.

Posted by: bill sometimes bill from canada at December 20, 2013 08:24 AM (orgxw)

180 Most governments, local, state, federal, have a complete disdain for those that know how to do things. Oregon is not an outlier. Oregon proves the rule that pols and their minions never got out of the university with an adult brain. Pols and their minions are simply sycophants, feeding their respective egos, and nothing more. It is what they developed at university. I am surprised, really surprised, that Oracle, the be-all and end-all of database development is reported to have failed in Oregon. They failed, likely, because they were being micro-managed by the unable, dictatorially.

Posted by: Quaoar at December 20, 2013 12:24 PM (huV3N)

181 "Everyone should work for the government, they over pay and don't expect results."

The government sounds a lot like a taxpayer...

Posted by: jbspry at December 20, 2013 06:07 PM (vZrwS)

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