Posted on 10/23/2013 7:19:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Juan Williams has a clear grip on responsibility for the failure of a program that got passed in Congress with no Republican votes, and implemented with no Republican management in a Democratic administration. Williams claims that the White House would have delayed the rollout of ObamaCare’s exchanges except for the opposition of the GOP to the program as a whole. As a result, Williams argues, Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius had no choice but to lie about the exchanges and let it unfold.
Come on — you knew the media would eventually get around to this argument. You just didn’t expect to hear it first on Fox (via Twitchy):
Stephen Hayes was amazed … and not in a good way:
The look on Steven Hayes face while Juan Williams tried to explain why Sebelius is not to blame was priceless #tcot
— Eric Powers (@PowersMisterE) October 22, 2013
Follow the link back to Twitchy to catch the screencap.
My Townhall colleague Dan Doherty scoffs:
The idea that Obama refused to enact a sweeping delay of his signature legislative achievement because of Republicans is an obvious red herring. The reason The One won’t delay Obamacare is quite simple: He feels he’s “won” this battle — in other words, he defeated Governor Mitt Romney in 2012 and the ACA was ruled constitutional by the High Court. Case closed. Therefore, any attempt by Republicans to amend or delay or defund his Big Government achievement is a non-starter. He’s made that quite clear.
By the way, the Obama administration knew full well that the website did not and would not work. They tested it and (surprise!) there were all sorts of problems with it.
And actually, the issue came up even earlier than that, as Jeff Dunetz reminds us today. In early August, the Inspector General warned that the system testing had been insufficient, and that the “margin for error” had disappeared:
The federal government is months behind in testing data security for the main pillar of Obamacare: allowing Americans to buy health insurance on state exchanges due to open by October 1
The missed deadlines have pushed the government’s decision on whether information technology security is up to snuff to exactly one day before that crucial date, the Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general said in a report.
As a result, experts say, the exchanges might open with security flaws or, possibly but less likely, be delayed.
“They’ve removed their margin for error,” said Deven McGraw, director of the health privacy project at the non-profit Center for Democracy & Technology. “There is huge pressure to get (the exchanges) up and running on time, but if there is a security incident they are done. It would be a complete disaster from a PR viewpoint.”
We’re still not sure whether those bugs still exist. The performance of the website hasn’t provided any basis for confidence in the competence in any other area.
I would laugh if I weren’t so depressed.
Quote: “Williams claims that the White House would have delayed the rollout of ObamaCare’s exchanges except for the opposition of the GOP to the program as a whole. As a result, Williams argues, Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius had no choice but to lie about the exchanges and let it unfold.”
We can all scoff at this as much as we want but John Sidney McCain will validate (if he has not already) this line of thinking in a heartbeat.
Juan Willams, ever the progressive tool.
So, if I have this right, the Zer0 was going to delay implementation (sure he was, and by the way I have this bridge for sale in New York City), but he didn’t delay because the Republicans were already calling for delay, and he couldn’t be seen to agree with them?
Juan has reverted so far up --- no sunshine
It’s the Kool Aide effect.
It seems their jobs are based on how much disinformation they can spew.
They will sport five lies in ten seconds knowing there's only twenty
seconds left in the segment. And Fox calls this fair and balanced?
Fox news is turning into the turd channel that MSNBC has become.
juan is just one of many examples of why I no longer watch faux news.
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I don’t watch much Fox News either but when I do and Juan Williams is on the show I utilize My Famous FFTJW Technique.
You’ve never heard of FFTJW? I’m amazed. You may recognize it as a method that works with DirectTV where it is possible to record shows for later viewing or pause, rewind and fast forward a live show.
If you have such a system you simply Fast Forward Through Juan Williams and life will become good again.
Wouldn’t it be fun if someone hacked the site, released confidential data and killed 0bamacare for all time.
Te GOP has had absolutely nothing to do with Obamacare yet somehow it is their fault that it is failing to live up to the hype. Yep, typical Rat response.
watched the video,
Juan says it was GOP opposition that kept Sebelius from getting that website working.
He said that with all the GOP opposition her only choice was to release the untested not-working website for Americans use, ‘....and see what happens’
Theres logic for ya.
Good grief...all these people do is spit out the lines that the White House tells them to.
“We had to release it, to find out what’s in it.”
Typical government process. Its not like a Iphone because we are mandated to participate even if it fails.
This is a ‘teachable moment’ as the libs used to say about Obama lecturing us endlessly.
This is exactly why you should not sign up and put your personal info on a joke web site.
I would guess that Mr. Ailes brought Juan(don’t play Mexican Music)Williams to Fox News for”Comedy Relief”???
For “balance” I would assume.
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