Hope and Change and Expensive Failure

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“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
— Barack Obama, June 3, 2008

This was the moment when our ObamaCare began not working:

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.

Did somebody say, “not working”?

WE PAID $634 MILLION FOR THE OBAMACARE
SITES AND ALL WE GOT WAS THIS LOUSY 404

As if no one possibly could have foreseen this:

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.

Democrats insisted on shutting down the government in order to implement this expensive failure, while Republicans were willing to become less popular than chlamydia in order to spare Americans from the pain of re-learning that Democrat policies don’t work.

Democrats haven’t turned the whole country into Detroit yet.

We must be patient . . .

 

 

63 comments

  1. Shirley Sherrod once said the Breitbart wants to bring back slavery. Why doesn’t his window countersue for libel?

  2. I suppose, before June 3, 2008 we were in a sorry state of affairs, and obeyme brought us out of Turd World Nation status? Wow.Just.Wow.
    I wonder if obammy really believes his hyperbole, or does he laugh up his sleeve every night, secure in the knowledge that there are enough shrill sycophants voting (and a slobbering, compliant msm) to further support his “cause”.
    That “cause” is a straight line march to totalitarianism.

  3. According to some, they want this to fail because their ultimate goal is for the government to take over. If that’s the case, then i suppose they consider this failure a success.

  5. Did you every hear the saying: He doesn’t know shit from Shinola? That’s Obama. So he probably “really believes his hyperbole”.

  9. I agree, they are very delusional, and very deeply, and dangerously, in denial. Truth escapes their thought process.

  10. It gets bettter. According to one of Ace’s morons, a big chunk of 404care source cide was posted on an open programmer’s forum by a code minkey looking for advice on the mess.

  11. I seem to recall during the debates back in ’09 or so, that someone actually got one or more someones on tape as saying that they really wanted Single Payer, but that this would move us in that direction. I know that Barney Frank was one, but I think Pelosi said it flat out also. I guess no one wanted to believe that this would be how they wanted to move us to single payer, total gov’t control, health care delivery.

  12. Yep. There were others, as well. That’s why this thing must be fought at every turn. The goal is not providing health insurance. The goal is to destroy the current health delivery system as it exists in this country in order to allow government greater access to our money, which it can then siphon off for other programs while providing us with the proverbial “take two aspirin.”

  13. What thought process? Seriously, just look at them! Every impulse is acted upon, temper tantrums are frequent and prolonged, magical thinking dominates. If this doesn’t prove that progressives are sociopathic idiots, nothing does!

  18. I note that lost in all the shut-down/O-care theater is something that is rarely mentioned anymore, if at all: the Senate’s willful refusal to do it’s constitutional duty and pass a budget. It has not even bothered to send compromises back to the House during this entire administration. Rather, Reid and company have simply let all budgets die. Thus, only now are we learning the cost of this fiasco, when it should have been determined years ago. We’ve been told for years we need CRs to fund this wonderful feast for January 1, 2014 and we’re now sitting at the table to see that our money has bought us a bowl of Cheerios with skim milk.

    And no spoon.

  19. The Senate cannot pass a budget or Senators will go to jail, for the same reason you cannot just stop ANY Ponzi scheme. The minute they jump off the continuing resolution rollercoaster they are screwed.

  20. Which is why, if I were in charge of the House, the mantra would be, “No more CRs. A budget gets passed and signed, or this thing really shuts down.”

  21. That’s good.

    Really. The changes are great that that will provide better code than what they’re trying to do.

    The *code* isn’t the problem (unless it exposes an attack vector, and being public would actually be better for closing that). Well, traditionally. i think that’s going to demonstrate how badly architected this mess is.

    But it’s the data and business logic that are confidential (and you can argue the logic SHOULDN’T be, but they’ll hold tightly to it, because if we find out how it’s set up…)

    But that’s not that bad, actually. They need a lot more public help, if it’s ever going to work, much less on this kind of a deadline.

  22. Only sort of related:

    ‘It’s ridiculous, of course, for anyone to make a big deal over who the “Avenger” is. Certainly I never paid attention to that, and if anyone did, they did so without asking me about it. About two or three days into this story, back in May 2012, I realized that trying to figure out which actual person was behind any particular online “persona” was a fool’s errand. Neal Rauhauser loves to play that childish “you-can’t-prove-it” game: Bait people into making accusations that he is behind a certain sockpuppet account and then, quicker than you can say “plausible deniability,” Neal turns that into “evidence” that the person who makes the accusation is a paranoid conspiracy theorist, an unserious person with no credibility. So I don’t play that game, just like I never respond to any of Bill Schmalfeldt’s “evidence” against Kimberlin’s enemies, myself included. I know the motive for that game, and I don’t play it.’

  24. That’s some of their goal. I wouldn’t even say most.

    Most people supportive of Obamacare quite simply don’t understand what we’ve been doing with the money for the last 40 years and what will be coming. It’s always better, there’s always credit, and so on and so forth.

    There are of course, some, who want single-payer and see this as a stepping stone. A few who wouldn’t mind single-payer, and if this is what it takes, fine.

    But most are just clueless, useful idiots who want something for nothing and for things to be “fair” (outcome, not opportunity), regardless of your personal preparation and planning.

  25. 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.

    The younger crowd won’t remember this, but you can largely sum up IT work and especially how pols and management plan for it by quoting Mayor Burnside.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075489/

    “Handle it, Roy, Handle it.”

  27. DoD does it better: they buy whatever from the latest favored corporation, and then requires its analysts and engineers to reverse engineer the item to determine the justification for buying it in the first place (usually tied to the buyer’s future employment).
    HHS was looking for the right people, but science, engineering and IT are anti-thetical to the politics of HHS.

  28. In the 70’s DOD paid $450 for a hammer, $500 for a toilet seat and had 28 pages of regulations for vendors suppling the PX with chocolate donuts. Now with phony negro farmers extorting $13 million because God didn’t make them phony white farmers one longs for them good ol’ days..

  33. Precisely.

    Today’s liberalism seem to be about half marxist ideology and half reactionary counter-Western psychology.

  35. It could be “Bingo”… The locals call Binghamton, New York “Bingo” or “BANGhamton… I spent a month there one day and wasn’t shot at!

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