The contractors knew in July that the Obamacare website would crash. Unbelievable!

The Story:

(Reuters) – Almost three months before the botched launch of HealthCare.gov, a U.S. health official expressed frustration with a main contractor working on the website, fearing quality assurance issues could “crash the plane at take-off,” according to government documents obtained by Reuters.

The documents were released by Republican investigators with the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. Republican lawmakers, who have consistently sought to undermine President Barack Obama’s signature health system overhaul, are probing the law’s disastrous rollout.

Two series of internal emails in July between officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), including HealthCare.gov project manager Henry Chao, describe struggles with contractors, staff shortages and software problems long before the federal healthcare website crashed on its October 1 launch and threw the rollout of Obamacare into political turmoil.

via Exclusive: U.S. official in July feared HealthCare.gov ‘crash’ | Reuters.

James O’Keefe is on the case again, with even more fraud.

Video: (H/T Ace of Spades HQ)

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The Story:

Project Veritas caught Obamacare Navigators counseling applicants to lie on their applications, which is cheating the federal government, the American taxpayer, and the countless families who truly need quality health care.

But critics are saying the video wasn’t in context and it was just an isolated incident. Certainly, our encounters might have been isolated, so we decided to visit with even more Navigators (who are funded by your hard-earned tax dollars).

via Obamacare Navigator Fraud Continues | James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas.

Ouch.

The Story: (H/T Breitbart.com)

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama won the presidency by exploiting a political environment that devoured George W. Bush in a second term plagued by sinking credibility, failed legislative battles, fractured world relations and revolts inside his own party.

Mr. Obama is now threatened by a similar toxic mix. The disastrous rollout of his health care law not only threatens the rest of his agenda but also raises questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency.

But unlike Mr. Bush, who faced confrontational but occasionally cooperative Democrats, Mr. Obama has a Republican opposition that has refused to open the door to any legislative fixes to his health care law and has blocked him at virtually every other turn.

A contrite-sounding Mr. Obama repeatedly blamed himself on Thursday for the failed health care rollout, which he acknowledged had thrust difficult burdens on his political allies and had deeply undermined Americans’ trust in him.

“It’s legitimate for them to expect me to have to win back some credibility on this health care law in particular and on a whole range of these issues in general,” Mr. Obama said.

But earning back the confidence of Americans, as he pledged to do, will require Mr. Obama to right more than just the health care program. At home, his immigration overhaul is headed for indefinite delay, even as new budget and debt fights loom. And abroad, N.S.A. spying revelations have dragged down the country’s standing, even as negotiations over Iran’s nuclear arsenal have set off bipartisan criticism.

And for the first time in his presidency, surveys suggest that his reserve of good will among the public is running dry. Two polls in recent weeks have reported that a majority of Americans no longer trust the president or believe that he is being honest with them.

“When you start losing the trust and confidence, not only of Congress, but the American people, that makes it even more difficult,” said Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia. “You can work yourself out. But you have to be sincere, and you have to be honest.”

via Obama’s Flawed Health Law Rollout Draws Parallels to Bush’s Troubles – NYTimes.com.

That is seriously going to leave a mark. 😯 But, we on the right can simply say, “we told you so!”  (over and over and over.)

Twitchy is sharing the following:

http://youtu.be/N6oFQfuFp4k

Now this was promoted as some sort of “awesome smackdown!” I disagree. The President said, “It’s on us, we messed up” and you know what? I believe him. While this blog holds to a paleoconservative political position. I do not consider myself to be a partisan blogger. At the same time, I am not going to sit here and run defense for him either. This is because the Obamacare idea, in itself was a very stupid idea. Government has never been able to do anything like this at all, without some sort of screw up.

Let this be a lesson to the President; this is what happens when you run an advisor-ran administration. Obama simply was not interested in the fine details of writing this healthcare bill. It was written by his advisors and by lobbyists from the healthcare industry. This is why it is awful and why now the President is having to do the “mea culpa” dance.

Maybe next time, the President will be a bit more involved with what happens in his administration.