‘O, what a tangled web we weave when we practice to decieve …’, Sir Walter Scott
George Rebane
Yesterday’s House Oversight Committee hearing into Obamacare’s disastrous launch revealed documented evidence that months ago low level code jockeys already told their bosses healthcare.gov would not fly, and could not be made to fly by 1 October 2013 (Fox News). These bosses then confirmed the conclusions and communicated the warnings up the organizational ladder. And from previous testimony by people like Henry Chao and Todd Park, it is clear that this process continued over the summer months up the bureaucratic organizational ladder until it mysteriously stopped before reaching the White House.
In his latest ‘duck and cover’ from responsibility (actually culpability), we recall that our Chief Community Organizer just told us that he isn’t “so stupid” as to have allowed the crash and burn to take place had he known the sad state of affairs at healthcare.com.
People – even those in Congress and on Fox News – have trouble connecting the dots here, so let me offer my humble services. To start, we are here dealing with three distinct messages – two of them voiced and a matter of record, and the third staring us in the face but mysteriously absent. And no one yet appears smart enough to put their finger on it, and ask the HHS’s Sebelius to explain the obvious. OK, here are the messages –
1. ‘Omigosh, the damn thing won’t work and is beyond repair in the time remaining. If we continue on the present launch schedule the administration will be embarrassed and millions of Americans will be hurt. I am telling my boss about this.’
2. ‘All is well, the launch is a go.’ (based on ‘Oh shit! the damn thing won’t work and is beyond repair in the time remaining. If we continue on the present launch schedule the White House along with Democrats in Congress and across the country will be embarrassed, and millions of Americans will be hurt. But I’m not going to tell anyone, and hope that no one discovers it was me who screwed up and didn’t pass the word.’)
3. ‘Well hell, would you look at that! Whouda thought? What a mess! But hey, it wasn’t my fault or the fault of anyone in the White House. Nobody told us.’
We now know that Message1 was passed up the line from contractors to the HHS bosses who so testified. And, of course, we’ve been hearing Message3 from the White House and the Democrats for the last six weeks. But we know for certain that if Message3 is not Obamacare’s BIG LIE continued, then someone near (or at) Secretary Sebelius had to relay Message2.
So what do you think are the chances that Message2 actually went through someone’s head just below the level of the White House as claimed by Jay Carney? Who at HHS was so stupid as to let things proceed to this level of denial, and think that no one would subsequently connect the dots at a much greater political cost to Obama and the Dems?
Well students, get out your pencils and a clean sheet of paper. This is a multiple choice test with two possible answers – A: Obama lied, and B: Obama lied and is still lying. Think hard now.
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