Traumahawk
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Here was an interesting article about Obamacare....
Chaos and Corruption in Obama's Washington
How many people signed up for Obamacare after "the great reveal" last week? Simple question, yes? One that the Obama administration should be able to answer quite easily, given its technical sophistication and unprecedented ability to collect and analyze data of all kinds.
But the "most transparent administration in history" says we'll get no data until November. And Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew tap-danced to the point of exhaustion when asked about the data during his interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. Check out the frustrating exchange courtesy of CNSNews.com.
http://newstracking.judicialwatch.org/l/a/74i/eh/8-oi/fbk/prfi/click.emaildirect
How many actually signed up, sir?" Wallace asked Lew.
"You know, they have six months to sign up. This is a big decision. We never-"
"How many signed up?" Wallace asked again.
"I don't have the exact number, but the question isn't how many -- the question --
"Do you have any number?" Wallace asked. "Because the government has refused to tell us how many."
"It's the wrong question. It's the wrong question," Lew said.
"No it isn't," Wallace replied.
"The right question--" Lew said, but again, Wallace cut him off.
"The question is, how many people have actually signed up?" Wallace asked.
"Chris, we know that people take time to make important decisions like this. They go on(line), they compare their options. The fact that so many millions of people rushed to get information is a very good sign."
"The answer is they couldn't," Wallace said.
I'll spare you the rest as it went on like this for some time. It took a newspaper based in another country to get the answer about how many signed up. London's Daily Mail broke the news that only 51,000 were able to "apply" for insurance on the failing Obamacare government web sites.
Some in the liberal press did their best to provide cover. The Washington Post called the effort to track the data "tricky business." While Mother Jones said it doesn't even matter how many people signed up, but then parroted the Post's excuse: "...getting lots of uninsured people into private health plans...is maddeningly difficult and time-consuming," writer Stephanie Mencimer complained.
The only reason the number "doesn't matter" to the Left is because the number is embarrassingly low. You can bet if the number represented good news for the president, it would have been on the tip of the tongue of every Obama administration spokesperson throughout the federal leviathan - and page-one material for the liberal press.
But that wasn't the big news during the Obamacare launch. No, the headline was the fact that people couldn't sign up even if they wanted to due to a massive breakdown in the system: a problem that has yet to be fixed! "The second week of Obamacare enrollment started a lot like the first: with error messages," reported Politico.
Glitches continued crippling online enrollment in new Obamacare exchanges on Monday, despite assurances by the White House that the consumer experience would markedly improve this week.
The Obama administration deployed senior officials over the weekend to emphasize that problems on the enrollment site, HealthCare.gov, were primarily the result of intense interest from prospective enrollees. But their claims were undercut by a Sunday evening Wall Street Journal report claiming serious design flaws in the system's infrastructure.
According to The Associated Press, the system was "drawing lots of rotten tomatoes" with only 1 in 10 reported successes on the system. CBS This Morning reported that media outlets are having a difficult time finding anyone who has actually been successful (and I'm sure it's not for lack of trying). One computer programmer summed it up: "It wasn't designed well, it wasn't implemented well, and it looks like nobody tested it." (Digital Trends called the system a "befuddled beast" noting that the website alone cost $634 million. By way of comparison it took Facebook six years to receive $600 million in operating funds.)
Even liberal political activist John Stewart, typically an apologist for all things Obama, made a mockery of the Obamacare launch during a "cringeworthy" interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week: "I'm gonna try and download every movie ever made," The Daily Show host quipped, "and you're gonna try and sign up for Obamacare-and we'll see which happens first."
We already know that Obamacare makes a mockery of the rule of law. See, for instance, our lawsuit for Dr. Larry Kawa's Kawa Orthodontics, LLP trying to get Obama to follow his own darn healthcare law.
Now it is clear Obama isn't following his own law because he can't make it work. This is no surprise to constitutional conservatives who understand that the markets for health care are exceedingly complex and can't be managed by socialists in Washington.
While Obamacare was busy tanking, the National Park Service (NPS) continued its oppressive blockades - even shutting down enterprises not run by the government. It all started last week when World War II heroes were denied access - from seeing their own memorial - by National Park Service personnel because, they were told, of the government shut down.
But here's the thing. There is no basis for the memorial to be shut down. And it cost the Obama administration more money to keep the memorials closed than to keep them open, as required, 24 hours a day!
One might think that the National Park Service would shrink in embarrassment, especially after the veterans moved past the blockades to complete their mission, leading to major national news coverage. But what did the NPS do? They doubled down!
There's the Claude Moore Colonial Home in McLean, Virginia, closed by the NPS even though the service hasn't operated that site since 1980. When the farm resisted, noting that it was operated with private donations and volunteers, the NPS caved and allowed it to reopen.
The Park Service doesn't own Mount Vernon either, but that didn't stop the NPS from closing that facility. And Mt. Rushmore? The NPS "went the extra mile and put out orange cones to block the little scenic overlook areas on the roads near Mount Rushmore. You know, just to make sure no taxpayers could catch a glimpse of it," writes The Weekly Standard in an editorial.
"Think about that for a minute," the editorial continues. "The Park Service, which is supposed to serve the public by administering parks, is now in the business of forcing parks they don't administer to close."
Unless, of course, a group of leftists would like to use the "closed" federal parks to conduct a protest. Which is exactly what happened this week.
Just days after World War II veterans were denied access to their memorial, a large group of illegal alien amnesty activists began setting up for a national demonstration (Camino Americano) on the "closed" mall area adjacent to Capitol Hill.
"Rally organizers said that they would be allowed by the NPS to carry out their protest under their First Amendment rights," The Washington Examiner reported.
Only a corrupted presidential administration, completely out of touch with the Constitution and all reason, could justify denying military veterans an opportunity to visit a memorial built in their honor while defending the rights of the illegal immigration lobby to have its say.
Unlike most Washington politicians, we won't let these scandals lie. We have filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests to try to expose the truth about the Obamacare debacle. And we have a filed a half-dozen document requests to expose the full facts about the National Park Service desecration of our nation's war memorials and parks. We'll keep watch for you and the other patriotic Americans who are horrified at the chaos and corruption here in DC. With vigilance and diligence, we can begin to get this town back under control.
Chaos and Corruption in Obama's Washington
How many people signed up for Obamacare after "the great reveal" last week? Simple question, yes? One that the Obama administration should be able to answer quite easily, given its technical sophistication and unprecedented ability to collect and analyze data of all kinds.
But the "most transparent administration in history" says we'll get no data until November. And Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew tap-danced to the point of exhaustion when asked about the data during his interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. Check out the frustrating exchange courtesy of CNSNews.com.
http://newstracking.judicialwatch.org/l/a/74i/eh/8-oi/fbk/prfi/click.emaildirect
How many actually signed up, sir?" Wallace asked Lew.
"You know, they have six months to sign up. This is a big decision. We never-"
"How many signed up?" Wallace asked again.
"I don't have the exact number, but the question isn't how many -- the question --
"Do you have any number?" Wallace asked. "Because the government has refused to tell us how many."
"It's the wrong question. It's the wrong question," Lew said.
"No it isn't," Wallace replied.
"The right question--" Lew said, but again, Wallace cut him off.
"The question is, how many people have actually signed up?" Wallace asked.
"Chris, we know that people take time to make important decisions like this. They go on(line), they compare their options. The fact that so many millions of people rushed to get information is a very good sign."
"The answer is they couldn't," Wallace said.
I'll spare you the rest as it went on like this for some time. It took a newspaper based in another country to get the answer about how many signed up. London's Daily Mail broke the news that only 51,000 were able to "apply" for insurance on the failing Obamacare government web sites.
Some in the liberal press did their best to provide cover. The Washington Post called the effort to track the data "tricky business." While Mother Jones said it doesn't even matter how many people signed up, but then parroted the Post's excuse: "...getting lots of uninsured people into private health plans...is maddeningly difficult and time-consuming," writer Stephanie Mencimer complained.
The only reason the number "doesn't matter" to the Left is because the number is embarrassingly low. You can bet if the number represented good news for the president, it would have been on the tip of the tongue of every Obama administration spokesperson throughout the federal leviathan - and page-one material for the liberal press.
But that wasn't the big news during the Obamacare launch. No, the headline was the fact that people couldn't sign up even if they wanted to due to a massive breakdown in the system: a problem that has yet to be fixed! "The second week of Obamacare enrollment started a lot like the first: with error messages," reported Politico.
Glitches continued crippling online enrollment in new Obamacare exchanges on Monday, despite assurances by the White House that the consumer experience would markedly improve this week.
The Obama administration deployed senior officials over the weekend to emphasize that problems on the enrollment site, HealthCare.gov, were primarily the result of intense interest from prospective enrollees. But their claims were undercut by a Sunday evening Wall Street Journal report claiming serious design flaws in the system's infrastructure.
According to The Associated Press, the system was "drawing lots of rotten tomatoes" with only 1 in 10 reported successes on the system. CBS This Morning reported that media outlets are having a difficult time finding anyone who has actually been successful (and I'm sure it's not for lack of trying). One computer programmer summed it up: "It wasn't designed well, it wasn't implemented well, and it looks like nobody tested it." (Digital Trends called the system a "befuddled beast" noting that the website alone cost $634 million. By way of comparison it took Facebook six years to receive $600 million in operating funds.)
Even liberal political activist John Stewart, typically an apologist for all things Obama, made a mockery of the Obamacare launch during a "cringeworthy" interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week: "I'm gonna try and download every movie ever made," The Daily Show host quipped, "and you're gonna try and sign up for Obamacare-and we'll see which happens first."
We already know that Obamacare makes a mockery of the rule of law. See, for instance, our lawsuit for Dr. Larry Kawa's Kawa Orthodontics, LLP trying to get Obama to follow his own darn healthcare law.
Now it is clear Obama isn't following his own law because he can't make it work. This is no surprise to constitutional conservatives who understand that the markets for health care are exceedingly complex and can't be managed by socialists in Washington.
While Obamacare was busy tanking, the National Park Service (NPS) continued its oppressive blockades - even shutting down enterprises not run by the government. It all started last week when World War II heroes were denied access - from seeing their own memorial - by National Park Service personnel because, they were told, of the government shut down.
But here's the thing. There is no basis for the memorial to be shut down. And it cost the Obama administration more money to keep the memorials closed than to keep them open, as required, 24 hours a day!
One might think that the National Park Service would shrink in embarrassment, especially after the veterans moved past the blockades to complete their mission, leading to major national news coverage. But what did the NPS do? They doubled down!
There's the Claude Moore Colonial Home in McLean, Virginia, closed by the NPS even though the service hasn't operated that site since 1980. When the farm resisted, noting that it was operated with private donations and volunteers, the NPS caved and allowed it to reopen.
The Park Service doesn't own Mount Vernon either, but that didn't stop the NPS from closing that facility. And Mt. Rushmore? The NPS "went the extra mile and put out orange cones to block the little scenic overlook areas on the roads near Mount Rushmore. You know, just to make sure no taxpayers could catch a glimpse of it," writes The Weekly Standard in an editorial.
"Think about that for a minute," the editorial continues. "The Park Service, which is supposed to serve the public by administering parks, is now in the business of forcing parks they don't administer to close."
Unless, of course, a group of leftists would like to use the "closed" federal parks to conduct a protest. Which is exactly what happened this week.
Just days after World War II veterans were denied access to their memorial, a large group of illegal alien amnesty activists began setting up for a national demonstration (Camino Americano) on the "closed" mall area adjacent to Capitol Hill.
"Rally organizers said that they would be allowed by the NPS to carry out their protest under their First Amendment rights," The Washington Examiner reported.
Only a corrupted presidential administration, completely out of touch with the Constitution and all reason, could justify denying military veterans an opportunity to visit a memorial built in their honor while defending the rights of the illegal immigration lobby to have its say.
Unlike most Washington politicians, we won't let these scandals lie. We have filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests to try to expose the truth about the Obamacare debacle. And we have a filed a half-dozen document requests to expose the full facts about the National Park Service desecration of our nation's war memorials and parks. We'll keep watch for you and the other patriotic Americans who are horrified at the chaos and corruption here in DC. With vigilance and diligence, we can begin to get this town back under control.
