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Posted on October 23, 2013 11:05:02 PM EDT by tobyhill
A top executive with CGI Federal, one of the contractors paid millions to create the ObamaCare website, says “no amount of testing” could have prevented the site’s problem-plagued start.
Senior Vice President Cheryl Campbell’s remarks are part of prepared testimony she will give before a Republican-led House hearing Thursday on the insurance-marketplace site. They also appear to challenge new claims by the administration that a lack of adequate testing was part of the problem.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing is the first since the site’s disastrous Oct. 1 launch -- marked by crashes, slow response times and its inability to let customers make purchases.
Several contractors are set to testify Thursday, and will likely face tough questioning from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, though prepared testimony indicates the witnesses may try to spread the blame around -- including to government officials overseeing the project.
Prepared testimony from contractor Optum/QSSI blamed in part a "late decision" to require customers to register before browsing for insurance, which could have helped overwhelm the registration system.
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so first it was "to much traffic on the website" and now we find out it was a number of things including a last minute switch by the admin to prevent people from seeing the prices without creating an account.
and guess what folks? Obama "heard about it the same time everyone else did"
LMFAO this admin is the most incompetent bunch of retards there is, LOL
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It's not incompetence, he's following Rules for radicals to a tee.
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It's not incompetence, he's following Rules for radicals to a tee.
AGREED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Over the past decades, we've seen so much shady bullshit from the govt blamed on "incompetence".
Those in govt are way smarter and shrewder than we give them credit for.
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If he did not have a corrupt puppet media to prop his administration up he would literally be sitting in the vicinity of a 20 something approval rating.
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You're a weird little shit, Obama, and I don't get you. So wake up and face what they call reality.
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If he did not have a corrupt puppet media to prop his administration up he would literally be sitting in the vicinity of a 20 something approval rating.
I dunno... We live in the information age. People LOVE that 'gotcha' moment. People LOVE when Miley is embarrassed. People LOVE a sex scandal. Was the media eating out of Clinton's hand? SURE! Until he got a BJ and they had a fun story. Did the media eat out of Bush's hand in 2003 in the leadup to war? Oh YOU BETCHA they did. MSNBC was on its own little warfest along with FOX, yall remember that? Some might be too young or didn't watch msnbc back then, but they were on this "Countdown to Iraq" thing nonstop for months, it was so fun and exciting, almost like the buildup to the damn Super Bowl.
So yes, the media also loved them some Obama - BUT - He fcks an intern or does something big, and YES, they will turn on him vicious. The PROBLEM?? THe reason they wont? Cause there's no Ken Starr to yell about the BJ. There's no Dennis Kuscinich to yell about the war. The repubs DO NOT have an attack dog, an adversary for Obama. They try with Palin, with Cruz... but until the bulk of the GOP actually speaks up, nothing will change. A LOT of the repubs were screaming about the the BJ - Newt was the John Boehnner of that time, and he lectured Clinton for a BJ - WHy isn't Boehnner screaming about F&F, Benghazi, impeachment every single day like that?? Same with Bush - Pelosi was suddenly the loud, anti-war voice that mobilized the media against Bush.
John Boehnner and the Gop leadership of 2013? Eh, they're not very vocal about obama, so the media isn't getting on board. BUT i betcha... if they ever grow a set of balls like Newt did against Clinton, like Pelosi did against Bush... LOOK OUT cause the media will eat him up. But will Boehnner ever go there? I dunno...
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/24/health-insurance-cancellation-notices-soar-above-obamacare-enrollment-rates
We warned you stupid fucks how many times?
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57609210/did-white-house-obamacare-guidance-stop-ahead-of-2012-election
Unreal
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-edit-obamacare-1025-jm-20131025,0,3836534.story
LMFAO at the democrat officials in sheer denial despite the fact that people like myself have warned of this for years now.
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http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/10/24/beware-insurance-pitches-disguised-as-obamacare
LOL - incompetence x 10
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/washington-inside-out/buck-stops-with-obama-on-rocky-rollout-of-health-care-plan-20131023
LOL - still in sheer denial
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and guess what folks? Obama "heard about it the same time everyone else did"
Hard to believe that he did not know beforehand. How could he not know when this is his "signature legislation"?
He makes it clear that the reform is very important to him, but yet they claim he didn't know about the glitches. Which means, if it's true, then he wasn't interested in any aspect of its implementation. He couldn't care less.
Either he is incompetent or utterly stupid.
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Hard to believe that he did not know beforehand. How could he not know when this is his "signature legislation"?
He makes it clear that the reform is very important to him, but yet they claim he didn't know about the glitches. Which means, if it's true, then he wasn't interested in any aspect of its implementation. He couldn't care less.
Either he is incompetent or utterly stupid.
CBS completely blows the lid off the Obama lie he did not know what a mess this was before the election.
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CBS completely blows the lid off the Obama lie he did not know what a mess this was before the election.
And did you hear the recent talking point by the democrats?
The Republicans sabotaged crapcare!!!! That's news to me. If they had sabotaged it, then it wouldn't have become a law. It wouldn't have made it out of the partial shutdown.
That is what you are going to hear more and more now from the left. They have no answers. The only thing they know is to point and blame others when EVERYTHING they do DOESN'T WORK.
The reason the website is crap, people can't see their premiums and people are losing the insurance plans they liked is because the GOP sabotaged obamacrapcare.
Can the democratic party get any more stupid?
And the sad thing is that the idiots, leeches, fags with white man's guilt, lesbos, emotional vaginas and illegal immigrants that commit fraud to vote, who make up 54% of the nation that keeps voting democrat, will believe this nonsense.
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Yup - that is why Romeny never had a chance - the parasites of society who want free stuff
And did you hear the recent talking point by the democrats?
The Republicans sabotaged crapcare!!!! That's news to me. If they had sabotaged it, then it wouldn't have become a law. It wouldn't have made it out of the partial shutdown.
That is what you are going to hear more and more now from the left. They have no answers. The only thing they know is to point and blame others when EVERYTHING they do DOESN'T WORK.
The reason the website is crap, people can't see their premiums and people are losing the insurance plans they liked is because the GOP sabotaged obamacrapcare.
Can the democratic party get any more stupid?
And the sad thing is that the idiots, leeches, fags with white man's guilt, lesbos, emmotional vaginas and illegal immigrants that commit fraud to vote, who make up 54% of the nation that keeps voting democrat, will believe this nonsense.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/24/obamacare-glitches-perfectly-reflect-president-arrogance-and-incompetence
Incompetence
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http://nypost.com/2013/10/25/developers-blast-administration-for-obamacare-web-failures
LOL
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The thing is falling apart completely on its own and the democrats shoved it down everyone's throat with something like a 60 to 0 vote. This is 100% on them.
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If he did not have a corrupt puppet media to prop his administration up he would literally be sitting in the vicinity of a 20 something approval rating.
So true..
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NOW they are trying to get the "best and brightest" in the computer/tech industry to fix the website.
Why didn't they do that BEFORE making the website?
Answer: INCOMPETENCE! That's why.
Do you know what is the most hilarious phrase I ever heard or read?
Answer: This is the smartest president and the most intelligent administration EVER!!!
That still cracks me up.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/31/curl-with-islamic-state-911-anniversary-obamas-inc/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
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A Culture of Incompetence
American Thinker ^ | 10/6/2014 | Bruce Walker
Posted on October 6, 2014 6:52:23 AM EDT by markomalley
Obama’s left never accepts responsibility for anything. Weaned on the sour milk of thuggish, tenured academicians and marinated in the surreal stew of lawyer-land, the odd creatures that infest our White House have no notion of work or honor or duty. This manifests itself in different ways.
Mendacity has been elevated almost to a secular religion. Obama, his officials, his armies of minor minions prevaricate with such aplomb that one wonders if they truly know when they are lying or telling the truth. The disgraceful trail of obfuscations, dissimulations, and quarter-truths are invariably defended by the administration’s flacks with the mantra “we have seen no evidence.” Of course we have not! The evidence has been destroyed or hidden or lied about.
Politicians lie, of course, and have as long as government has been around, but the sheer audacity of fabrications (the video that “caused” the Benghazi attack) rise to the level of Orwellian thought control, compounded by the utter indifference of the establishment media to calling out these lies.
Profound isolation from the governed is also a hallmark of our pathetic president and his hapless helpers. How could Obama, with a straight face, adopt Reagan’s “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” line and assume that ordinary folk would yip for joy?
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Trusting This Administration On Ebola, Or Anything Else, Is Insanity
Townhall.com ^ | October 20, 2014 | Kurt Schlichter
Posted on 10/20/2014 9:00:05 AM by Kaslin
Maybe the White House could organize a coherent response to the myriad problems exploding all over the place if this was an amorphous “community” instead of an actual country. We are seeing a real-life PowerPoint demonstration explaining exactly what happens when you turn the Executive Branch over to people who have never executed anything more complex than a sit-in at the local welfare office.
Since everything they touch turns to failure, their response is to lie. And everyone sees it. Everyone except Chet. Chet is my unicorn.
I’m a lawyer and get paid to watch equivocating weasels twist in the wind – in fact, one of the best parts of my job is doing the huffing and puffing. I have to give credit to the director of the Centers for Disease Control – rarely have I disbelieved someone so thoroughly so quickly. I don’t even believe his punctuation.
Instead of a rational, authoritative scientist calmly explaining what we do and don’t know, and exactly what commonsense steps his agency is taking to battle the Ebola outbreak, we get Dr. Kevin Bacon being flattened under a stampede of exposed medics running rampant across the country as he shrieks, “Remain Calm! All is well!”
Dude, all is not well. Everyone knows it. And that’s why people aren’t remaining calm.
When you tell us that you and your crack squad of pathogen professionals have got this, it would be infinitely better if you actually had this. Instead, after weeks of chaos, you finally announce that, “Yeah, we’ve decided that when Ebola pops up somewhere we’re going to send a big team in to make sure it’s contained.” Oh, you think?
I majored in communications, not communicable diseases, and I figured out that tactic weeks ago. Instead of studying, maybe you should have been drinking Coors Light and scamming hotties like me, because what you’re doing sure as hell isn’t containing the infection or reassuring the public.
Why hasn’t Barack Obama fired this guy? Well, that would be an admission of imperfection and that’s never going to happen. Instead of getting busy searching for a replacement, the White House is busy searching for a way to blame the GOP. Of course, in a nation dominated by failing unionized public schools, plenty of people will fall for the idea that the government is run by the party that has held one half of one branch of government for four of the last six years. Apparently evil genius John Boehner reigns over our nation from inside his extinct volcano lair.
Oh, in a totally unrelated story, the President recently played his 200th round of golf.
It’s no surprise that things go poorly when there’s no accountability. Leadership sometimes means pour encourager les autres by making an example of a non-hacker who can’t cut it. But if you take accountability off the table, you kind of limit your management options pretty much to just sitting back and watching yourself fail.
Of course, while placing the responsibility for nonperformance on specific individuals within the administration is not an option, generalized slander of elements of the government not generally associated with liberalism is just fine. Take the ISIS, or ISIL, or IS, or whatever’s conquest of Iraq – that was the fault of the intelligence community’s negligent failure to put the President in a half-nelson and force him to read the daily intel briefs that warned him for months that the junior varsity team was heading into the Super Bowl with a very favorable point spread.
It’s remarkable how this administration stumbles from disaster to disaster, each new day a surprise, each new challenge an utter shock. Putin in Ukraine? Who would have thought a revanchist Russian autocrat might try to reconquer the breadbasket of the Old USSR? What’s up with that? And that a wave of unaccompanied children might crest over our non-existent border after the administration practically sent them an engraved invitation? Who could have seen that coming?
Sure, we all understand that the essence of progressivism is the rejection of objective truth in favor of politically useful lies, but this is something more. When an administration is so unbelievably incompetent that it can’t even manage to perform the most basic functions of a government – like defeating our enemies, securing our borders, and not letting the country live out the plot of a Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow movie – there is no alternative. It has to lie. There’s literally nothing else it can do.
No wonder the Democrats’ favorable/unfavorable poll numbers are tanking. People, even the stupid ones who put this freak show in control, dislike being lied to. And they tend to stop believing people who lie to them all the time.
Yet this phenomenon baffles our would-be liberal overlords. For instance, they are in a perpetual tizzy because the American people laughed at John Kerry’s recent announcement that climate change was America’s greatest security threat and refuse to give up their cars and move into caves because of global warming. Or climate change. Or whatever they are calling it this week.
It’s remarkable that the American people resist shoveling heaps of money and much of their sovereignty over to a bunch of liberal elitists whose argument seems to consist of shouting, “SCIENCE!” They cite to the same scientific community that recently assured us that they had this whole Ebola transmission thing totally figured out. In the 70s, the liberals’ pet eggheads assured us that right now we’d be in an ice age.
Perhaps we might understand the evidence better if they shouted “SCIENCE!” at us a few more times.
We liked our health plans, and we got to keep them. Obama was furious that his IRS oppressed his political enemies. The Benghazi video did it.
It’s sheer insanity to believe anything anyone in this administration says, and everyone knows it. Everyone except Chet the Unicorn.
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Obama, the Virtuoso Manager-Why criticism of the president’s “incompetence” is wrong.
Frontpagemagazine ^ | 10-21-14 | Caroline Glick
Posted on 10/21/2014 8:05:40 AM by SJackson
Since he assumed office nearly six years ago, US President Barack Obama has been dogged by allegations of managerial incompetence. Obama, his critics allege, had no managerial experience before he was elected. His lack of such experience, they claim, is reflected in what they see as his incompetent handling of the challenges of the presidency.
In everything from dealing with the Congress, to reining in radical ideologues at the IRS, to handling the chaos at the Mexican border, to putting together coordinated strategies for dealing with everything from Ebola to Islamic State (IS), Obama’s critics claim that he is out of his league. That he is incompetent.
But if Israel’s experience with him is any guide, then his critics are the ones who are out to sea. Because at least in his handling of US relations with the Jewish state, Obama has exhibited a mastery of the tools of the executive branch unmatched by most of his predecessors.
Consider two stories reported in last Friday’s papers.
First, in an article published in The Jerusalem Post, terrorism analyst and investigative reporter Steven Emerson revealed how the highest echelons of the administration blocked the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office from assisting Israel in finding the remains of IDF soldier Oron Shaul.
Shaul was one of seven soldiers from the Golani Infantry Brigade killed July 20 when Hamas terrorists fired a rocket at their armored personnel carrier in Gaza’s Shejeia neighborhood.
As Emerson related, after stealing his remains, Hamas terrorists hacked into Shaul’s Facebook page and posted announcements that he was being held by Hamas.
Among other things it did to locate Shaul and ascertain whether or not he was still alive, the IDF formally requested that the FBI intervene with Facebook to get the IP address of the persons who posted on Oron’s page. If such information was acquired quickly, the IDF might be able to locate Oron, or at least find people with knowledge of his whereabouts.
Acting in accordance with standing practice, recognizing that time was of the essence, the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office began working on Israel’s request immediately. But just before the US Attorney secured a court order to Facebook requiring it to hand over the records, the FBI was told to end its efforts.
In an order that senior law enforcement officials told Emerson came from Attorney General Eric Holder’s office, the FBI was told that it needed to first sign an “MLAT,” a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with Israel, a procedure that would take weeks to complete, and is generally used in cases involving criminal prosecutions and other non-life threatening issues.
In other words, facing a bureaucracy acting independently, Holder – reportedly Obama’s most trusted cabinet secretary – acted quickly, decisively and effectively. And thanks to his intervention at the key moment, although Israel was able – after an exhaustive forensic investigation – to determine Oron’s death, today it is poised to begin negotiations with Hamas for the return of his body parts.
Then there was the unofficial arms embargo.
In August, The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House and State Department had stopped the Pentagon at the last minute from responding favorably to an Israeli request for resupply of Hellfire precision air-to-surface missiles. The precision guided missiles were a key component of Israel’s air operations against missile launchers in Gaza. The missiles’ guidance systems allowed the air force to destroy the launchers while minimizing collateral damage.
In keeping with the standard decades-long practice, Israel requested the resupply through European Command, its military-to-military channel with the US.
And in keeping with standard practice, the request was granted.
But then the White House and State Department heard about the approved shipment and spun into action. As in the case of Oron’s Facebook page, they didn’t reject Israel’s request. They just added a level of bureaucracy to the handling of the request that made it impossible for Israel to receive assistance from the US government in real time.
As State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf put it at the time, “We’re not holding anything. A hold indicates, technically, that you are not moving forward on making a decision about a transfer…. These requests are still moving forward; there’s just additional steps in the process now, and there’s been no policy decision made to not move forward with them…. They’re just going to take a little while longer.”
The Hellfire missiles, along with other ammunition Israel requested during the war, arrived in September – a month after the cease-fire went into effect.
On Friday veteran military affairs reporter Amir Rappaport reported in Makor Rishon that the hold on the Hellfire missiles was only one aspect of the White House’s decision to stop arms shipments to Israel during the war. Shortly after Operation Protective Edge began, the administration stopped all contact with the Defense Ministry’s permanent procurement delegation in the US.
According to Rappaport, for the first time since the 1982 war in Lebanon, “The expected airlift of US ammunition [to the IDF] never arrived at its point of departure.”
The difference between Obama’s actions during Operation Protective Edge and Ronald Reagan’s partial arms embargo against Israel 32 years ago is that Reagan made his action publicly. He argued his case before the public, and Congress.
Obama has done no such thing. As was the case with the FAA’s scandalous ban on flights to Ben-Gurion Airport during the war, Holder’s prevention of the FBI from helping Israel find Oron, and Obama’s arms embargo were justified as mere bureaucratic measures.
As Harf claimed in relation to the embargo, there was no hostile policy behind any of the hostile policy moves. Obama and his senior advisors are simply sticklers for procedure. And since during the war Obama insisted that he supported Israel, policymakers and the public had a hard time opposing his actions.
How can you oppose a hostile policy toward Israel that the administration insists doesn’t exist? Indeed, anyone who suggests otherwise runs the risk of being attacked as a conspiracy theorist or a firebrand.
The same goes for Obama’s policy toward Iran. This week we learned that the administration has now offered Iran a nuclear deal in which the mullahs can keep half of their 10,000 active centrifuges spinning.
Together with Iran’s 10,000 currently inactive centrifuges which the US offer ignores, the actual US position is to allow Iran to have enough centrifuges to enable it to build nuclear bombs within a year, at most.
In other words, the US policy toward Iran exposed by Obama’s nuclear offer is one that enables the most active state sponsor of terrorism to acquire nuclear weapons almost immediately.
But Obama denies this is his policy. For six years he has very deftly managed Congressional opposition to his wooing of the Iranian regime by insisting that his policy is to reduce the Iranian nuclear threat and to prevent war.
Opposing his policy means opposing these goals.
Consistent polling data show that Obama’s policies of harming Israel and facilitating Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear arsenal are deeply unpopular. His successful advancement of both policies despite this deep-seated public opposition is a testament to his extraordinary skill.
On the other hand, Obama’s virtuoso handling of the federal bureaucracy and Congress also reveal the Achilles heel of his policies. He conceals them because he cannot defend them.
Obama’s inability to defend these policies means that politicians from both parties can forthrightly set out opposing policies without risking criticism or opposition from the administration.
How can Obama criticize a serious policy to support Israel when he claims that this is his goal? And how can he oppose a serious policy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons when he says that he shares that goal? At least as far as Israel is concerned, Obama’s mastery of the federal bureaucracy is complete. It is not incompetence that guides his policy. It is malicious intent toward the US’s closest ally in the Middle East. And to defeat this policy, it is not necessary to prove incompetence that doesn’t exist. It is necessary to show that there are far better ways to achieve his declared aims of supporting Israel and blocking Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
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Twinkle, twinkle little czar
The nation waits for Ron Klain to fix Obama's Ebola policy
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Paging Dr. Klain.
Highest priority question for President Obama: What the hell is your Ebola czar doing, anyway?
After hesitation, confusion and flubs, Obama on Oct. 17 named Ron Klain to ride herd on the U.S. response to the deadly virus. The White House advertised Klain as the ultimate political and bureaucratic fixer.
All would be better, the administration promised in the throes of criticism that the President’s performance testified to governmental incompetence. Since then, hesitation and confusion still prevail, presaging flubs to come.
The latest milestones in incoherence:
Anonymous White House sources spread word that the administration is none too pleased by the quarantine orders issued by Gov. Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Christie.
Then, federal health official Dr. Anthony Fauci says on television that he “would not have recommended” mandatory quarantines for health-care workers returning from West Africa, asserting that science dictated a less restrictive policy.
Then, America, if not the world, waits and waits and waits for the Centers for Disease Control to issue protocols for dealing with Ebola health-care workers and people who travel to the U.S. after contact with someone carrying the disease.
Then, the Army quarantines the commander of U.S. Army Africa and about 10 soldiers who are returning from duty in West Africa — even though they show no symptoms and are extremely unlikely to transmit the virus if they carry it.
Just as Cuomo’s protocol directs, the Army staff will be monitored for 21 days.
Finally, the CDC issues standards for monitoring, but not isolating, people who were exposed to Ebola sufferers and do not show symptoms.
And the White House put out word that, pre-czar, Obama had seethed at his staff’s failure to take command of the Ebola response. What’s beyond seething?
The federal government could barely design a more discombobulated message about how it intends to reduce the risk that the virus will reappear on domestic soil.
While the CDC rolls its eyes at Cuomo and Christie — branding them politically driven alarmists — the military wisely followed Cuomo’s abundance-of-caution route. When consequences can be disastrous even though risks are small, it is better to avoid the possibility of grave harm.
What’s suitable for members of the armed forces — whose service we honor, just as we honor that of health-care volunteers — ought to be suitable for American civilians.
Included among them, of course, would be nurse Kaci Hickox, who was sent home to Maine after testing negative for Ebola. She had accused Christie of violating her rights by placing her in mandatory quarantine at University Hospital in Newark. The governor of far less densely populated Maine is now left to set the rules for protecting his citizens.
And where is the czar as his country calls? He’s behind the scenes in Washington — and behind the curve as well.
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Ex-Administration Official Sums Up The Obama Administration's Insularity In One Brutal Sentence
BI ^ | 10-27-2014 | Brett LoGiurato
Posted on 10/28/2014 12:38:50 PM by blam
Brett LoGiurato
October 28, 2014
Politico Magazine editor Michael Hirsh asked on Monday whether the Obama administration was full of a "team of bumblers" on the foreign policy and national security sides.
At the heart of the criticism is the charge that the Obama White House is too insular and often doesn't have a strategy.
According to House Armed Services Committee staffers who spoke to Hirsh, there is often a lack of coordination among the White House, Capitol Hill, and the Pentagon. And the general feeling is that the administration's National Security Council, which has beefed up to 300 members from 50, is reacting to a series of crises, rather than being proactive with a coherent strategy.
"There is a sense that the NSC is run a little like beehive ball soccer, where everyone storms to wherever the ball is moving around the field," one former administration official said.
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Unbelievable! AG Lynch admits she has lost track of Orlando shooter’s wife
americanthinker.com ^ | 6/22/2016 | Thomas Lifson
Posted on 6/22/2016, 10:17:28 AM by rktman
The mind boggles, as during her press conference in Orlando, Attorney General Loretta Lynch casually admitted that she has no idea of the location of the wife of the Orlando shooter – who may well have been aware of his attack and provided material support for it. Don’t believe me?
"Has the shooter’s wife left the state of Florida?" a reporter asked Lynch during her press conference Tuesday.
"Right now, I don’t know exactly the answer to that," Lynch candidly replied. "I believe she was going to travel but I do not know exactly her location now."
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Obama Never Blamed for Bad Security
Townhall.com ^ | June 22, 2016 | Brent Bozell
Posted on 6/22/2016, 10:10:04 AM by Kaslin
In the swing of the Trump wrecking crane, President Obama's approval ratings have risen above 50 percent. The media see greater appreciation for his "competence" in office -- but, why? In the wake of the Orlando attack it's easy to ask, "How competent would the media have made President George W. Bush appear if an Islamic terrorist shot up a gay nightclub in Florida eight years ago?"
It seemed like every piece of bad news during the Bush years was somehow Bush's fault -- and proof of his incompetence. The media's attitude toward Bush was summed up in Bill Maher's diatribe to Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show": "The man is a rube. He is a dolt. He is a yokel on the world stage. He is a Gilligan who cannot find his ass with two hands."
But absolutely no one in the media wonders for two seconds if Obama looks incompetent when a terrorist calls the cops to declare himself an ally of ISIS and shoots more than 50 people, killing 49. Instead, the post-shooting "news" focused on how the Republican love of "assault weapons" and hatred of homosexuals are the obvious targets for blame.
What of Islamic terrorism? What of Obama's incompetence -- his very real refusal to even call the threat by its name? It doesn't matter if it's San Bernardino, the Boston Marathon, Chattanooga, Benghazi or Fort Hood. No terrorist attack has ever cast the slightest shadow over this president.
The same goes for hacking. When the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee computer network to gain opposition research on Donald Trump, who was blamed? The Washington Examiner wrote, "The White House reacted ... by complaining that Republicans have blocked additional money for funds to enhance the nation's cybersecurity."
Last summer, we learned that hackers -- presumably Chinese -- breached the Obama-run Office of Personnel Management and stole data from background investigations covering 21.5 million people, including current, former and prospective federal workers. A Media Research Center study found that broadcast news networks protected the president by refusing to criticize the administration in 90.2 percent of cybersecurity stories (139 of 154). The sample stories included reports of serious data breaches at the OPM and IRS, theft of emails from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and top administration officials, and possible hacks of major airlines and Wall Street.
Newspaper editorial pages only sometimes harshly criticized Obama on those issues. Last July, the Washington Post editorial board accused him of demonstrating "inexcusable negligence" on cybersecurity and being "way too passive about China."
Why isn't this news? Network anchors like Scott Pelley of CBS suggested the cyberattack was a problem for the whole country, not just Team Obama. In an interview last August, he asked Secretary of State John Kerry: "With all of the attacks that have come apparently from China on the U.S. government, there is a sense that the United States is unable to defend itself in the cyber world. How much concern should we have?" Kerry said the government was "fighting back" against attacks daily, but the cyberworld is pretty much "the Wild West so to speak."
Throw into this mix the scandal of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton using a very hackable private server for four years with no outbreak on competence from Obama officials. The media attitude is evidenced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who doesn't want to talk any more about those "damn emails." Meanwhile, no one wonders how Obama could be so cavalier about the cyberthreat she created.
To the press, Obama's competence is automatically assumed. It's a given like knowing the sun will rise in the east. Part of it is the press' personal attachment to Obama, and part of it is the hidebound liberal assumption that the party that grows government the most governs best.