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Posted on 10/23/2013 10:30:26 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Bob Herbert, a former New York Times columnist and current fellow at the left-wing Demos think tank, warned that the failures of Obamacare online exchanges could negatively affect the current administration as Hurricane Katrina did the Bush administration. Herbert called the rollout “a real disaster” and said that it made “the administration look incompetent.”......
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He's incompetent!
He's doing a CYA now!
He's lying about this.
I bet Bob has already been taken to the woodshed.
He may never be heard from again.
Oh, boo-hoo and sniffle-sniffle.
Never start vast projects with half-vast ideas.
And they did not even trouble to have “low-bidder” on this deal. Crony capitalism (actually, “entrepreneurism”) at its best.
Some 95% of the personal woe in this world is self-induced. The other five percent or so is due to getting in the way of somebody else’s tantrum.
A response to a natural disaster is in no way similar to a multiyear project that completely fails to function. Obamaware is an EPIC failure.
Remarks by the President Before Meeting with Cabinet Members
Cabinet Room11:17 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Well, obviously we’re missing a few members of our Cabinet here today. In particular, John Kerry is overseas meeting on a topic that we’ve been spending a lot of time on over the last several weeks -- the situation in Syria and how we can make sure that chemical weapons are not used against innocent people.
I am hopeful that the discussions that Secretary Kerry had with Foreign Minister Lavrov as well as some of the other players in this can yield a concrete result. And I know that he is going to be working very hard over the next several days to see what the possibilities are there.
But even as we have been spending a lot of time on the Syria issue and making sure that international attention is focused on the horrible tragedy that occurred there, it is still important to recognize that we’ve got a lot more stuff to do here in this government.
The American people are still interested in making sure that our kids are getting the kind of education they deserve; that we’re putting people back to work; that we are dealing properly with a federal budget; that bills are getting paid on time; that the full faith and credit of the United States is preserved; and that the federal government itself is, in every single agency, running the way it should and making sure that our constituents and the American people are getting a good deal.
So we’re going to spend some time here today talking about all the efforts that have been made by many of these Cabinet secretaries to streamline operations, to cut out waste, to improve performance, to improve customer satisfaction. We’re going to focus on some specific issues, including managing some of the budget debates that are going to be taking place over the next several weeks.
We’re going to be talking about the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, where we’ve seen some tremendous progress over the last several months and are confident that starting at the beginning of next month, people are going to be able to start signing up for health care -- in many cases, for the first time. And we’re going to spend some time talking about issues like comprehensive immigration reform that are still of enormous importance to ensure that America grows.
So I appreciate all the great work that people have done. Some of the Cabinet members here are still relatively new, but thanks to their confirmations and the great teams they put around them, I know that they’re hitting the ground running.
Thank you very much, everybody.
END
11:20 A.M. EDT
Somebody should ask Obama EXACTLY what was discussed about the ObamaCare roll-out during this Cabinet meeting last month, and why he's frustrated and surprised about it now? What did Secretary Sebelius say to him then? Did she mislead the President in front of all the other Cabinet Secretaries? What does Obama plan to do about it now that he knows that he and his Cabinet were lied to by one of his Secretaries?
-PJ
NO ONE believes he didn’t know this turkey wouldn’t fly.
It’s his signature crash and burn.
:) :)
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As a good progressive Hebert doesn't have any concern for the American people who are being harmed terribly by this monstrosity of a program.
Exactly.
It’s always about THEM! Always.
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