Obama Claims Ignorance of Failure Despite IG’s Clear Warnings in August

Posted on | October 23, 2013 | 50 Comments

Evidently, the administration has chosen Kathleen Sebellius as the designated scapegoat for the ObamaCare fiasco:

President Barack Obama didn’t know of problems with the Affordable Care Act’s website — despite insurance companies’ complaints and the site’s crashing during a test run — until after its now well-documented abysmal launch, the nation’s health chief told CNN on Tuesday.
In an exclusive interview with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked when the President first learned about the considerable issues with the Obamacare website. Sebelius responded that it was in “the first couple of days” after the site went live October 1.
“But not before that?” Gupta followed up.
To which Sebelius replied, “No, sir.”

Let’s call this what it is: A deliberate lie. Jeff Dunetz points out that concerns with the ObamaCare site made headlines in August:

Back in August the Health and Human Services Inspector General issued a report dealing concerns that the Obamacare website was months behind in testing. . . .
As reported by Reuters on August 6th:
. . . “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.”

Read the whole thing and be sure to hit Jeff’s tip jar. The entire ethos of Obama is about blame-shifting to avoid responsibility.

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care, Yid With Lid

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50 Responses to “Obama Claims Ignorance of Failure Despite IG’s Clear Warnings in August”

MrEvilMatt
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:21 am

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October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:21 am

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DavidD
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:25 am

I dunno; I can believe Sebelius on this one. The guy has no intellectual curiosity and there’s nobody who’d tell the emperor that he has no clothes.
Jillybob
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:27 am

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DavidD
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:28 am

All hat no cattle; all vision, no execution.
gmardre
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:33 am

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Pqlyur1
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:38 am

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rsmccain
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:40 am

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PensativeGuy
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:42 am

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darthlevin
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:47 am

It’s hard to work for somebody whose management style is, “So let it be written, so let it be done!”
NeoWayland
October 23rd, 2013 @ 9:01 am

All hail the Imperious Leader.

He’s the same guy who issued “guidelines” from the Office of the President Elect while faux Roman temples were built to reveal his glory on television.

I was laughing then.

There is a good chance that Obamacare will collapse and become the national joke at the same time. And it’s going to be done without Congress or elected political leaders.

It’s the American way to ignore dumb laws whenever possible.
yidwithlid
October 23rd, 2013 @ 9:19 am

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BettinaVLA
October 23rd, 2013 @ 9:20 am

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InpatientMed
October 23rd, 2013 @ 9:23 am

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rsmccain
October 23rd, 2013 @ 9:26 am

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MarkReardon
October 23rd, 2013 @ 9:37 am

So, obviously Obama does not read the newspapers. Wasn’t that a meme about Palin? She’s an idiot since she doesn’t read the Times on a daily basis!
JeffS
October 23rd, 2013 @ 10:06 am

If Obama was not aware of this matter, it’s either because he is literally not paying attention, or it’s because messengers with bad news always get shot in his administration.

Me, I think President Jug Ears knew all about this, and Sebellius is his next speed bump.

Obamacare is his freakin’ legacy, people. This is the one thing that, literally, has his name on it, and will be passed on into history. Everything else that he’s touched was a miserable failure, not only because he touched it, but because Obama didn’t control it.

Needless to say, Obamacare is a miserable failure as well, at least as far as America is concerned. The idea that Obamacare was designed to destroy our economy has some validity, but I think it’s more due to incompetence and failed ideology. IMHO, of course.

But with Obamacare, Obama can at least attempt to control the information. That’s failing miserably as well, of course, but Obama does love his facades, especially when they “enhance” his image.

Nope, this fits the pattern Obama has followed before:

1. Come up with a brilliant plan (on paper) to change the nation.

2. Implement the plan amidst fanfair and (pre-mature) celebration of success.

3. Something Goes Wrong™.

4. Throw scapegoat under the bus.

5. Success!
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M. Thompson
October 23rd, 2013 @ 10:18 am

Tell me again how brilliant this guy is, I’m just saying tge people who voted for him deserve this.

The feckless incompetence can only be taken for so long.
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RS
October 23rd, 2013 @ 10:56 am

Sadly, the LIVs will believe this. It’s the “if only the Czar knew . . .” mindset rewritten for the 21st Century.
Lemuel Vargas
October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:09 am

Maybe he is “playing cards” with Reggie Love again? 😉
Aijadaina
October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:19 am

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OldmanRick
October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:25 am

Well, that actually understandable since he never attends any briefings.
MikeRumbo66
October 23rd, 2013 @ 11:34 am

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LN_Smithee
October 23rd, 2013 @ 12:14 pm

The entire ethos of Obama is about blame-shifting to avoid responsibility.

I sincerely believe that when the definitive historical accounts of the Obamastration will finally be written (in the same matter as historians still obsess over Nixon and Kennedy), the consensus will be that Obama’s actions from day one have always been calculated so as never to damage his preconceived legacy. Every public statement, every talking point, every leak appears to have the purpose of either being a building block to a monument to himself, or a counterpoint to any criticism of his actions.
Kyle Kiernan
October 23rd, 2013 @ 12:15 pm

Is there a solid concrete anything that he “does” know?
KayTaylor3
October 23rd, 2013 @ 12:16 pm

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October 23rd, 2013 @ 12:18 pm

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Quartermaster
October 23rd, 2013 @ 12:20 pm

He knows his lusts quite well. Outside of that? Meh.
Dana
October 23rd, 2013 @ 12:42 pm

The mark of a liar is that he lies even when the truth would serve him just as well. Unless the President thinks that he can issue an executive order suspending the 22nd Amendment, he can’t run again, so the acceptance of responsibility can’t hurt him. The truth wouldn’t have hurt him because it couldn’t have hurt him.

Heck, he could have said, “Yeah, I knew about it, but I didn’t want to give those scumbag Republicans any extra ammunition, and we kicked their sorry butts, didn’t we,” and half of the country — the dumber half, but that’s the Democrats’ base — would have cheered.
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October 23rd, 2013 @ 1:25 pm

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Finrod Felagund
October 23rd, 2013 @ 1:39 pm

I’m really hoping that Obamacare ends up in the same bin as the national 55mph speed limit, except for not lasting near as long.
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gates of vienna
October 23rd, 2013 @ 3:29 pm

“his preconceived legacy”
Make that his IMMACULATE preconception. No thoughts went into making this one – it was all attitude, arrogance and a pre-determination to redistribute.
I wish you were right about the historians’ future obsessions, but I’m afraid it’ll be another FDR hagiography. Notice the sliming & smearing of Diana West for daring to talk dirty about FDR’s opinion re the “convergence” of the US political system and that of the USSR. The other mccain was one of a handful of critics who lauded her work. The Bigs? Usual- hiding-behind-the-door as she was repeatedly caned.
In BHO’s case, the academy (where the ONLY canonical versions of history are allowed to be written, It will be Saint BHO for generations.
Just like Saint Franklin Delano…
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La Pucelle
October 23rd, 2013 @ 7:00 pm

I’m not convinced he could tell the truth, even if he wanted to. Everything about him declares textbook sociopathic pathological liar.
Bob Belvedere
October 23rd, 2013 @ 8:13 pm

Nothing is ever Comrade Stalin’s fault!
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October 24th, 2013 @ 12:14 am

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