As the list of Democrats distancing themselves from Barack Obama and his so-called Affordable Care Act continues to grow, Obama imparted this remarkable observation: When we buy IT services generally, it is so bureaucratic and so cumbersome that a whole bunch of it doesnt work or ends up being way over cost. ... Once we get this particular website fixed theyre going to be some lessons learned we can apply to the federal government in general. Evidently, Obama is conjunctionally challenged when he says, it doesnt work OR ends up being way over cost. The correct conjunction in this case is, of course, and. But his claim that cumbersome bureaucracy is to blame is entirely accurate, and that is true across the full spectrum of our bloated central bureaucracy. Other key Obama administration officials agree. Obamas former White House Chief of Staff (SecDef and CIA director), Leon Panetta, offered this keen insight on the cascading failure of OCare: You cannot rely on the bureaucracies to do this kind of work. They dont have the capabilities to get this done. Obamas former chief economic advisor, Larry Summers, notes that, as a result of the OCare failure, a shadow has been cast on the governments competence. Of course, our Founders cast that long shadow on government competence when they forged our Constitutions limits on the powers of the central government. Those limits notwithstanding, any question today about the constitutionality of socialist government programs is dismissed in the now-infamous words of Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Nobody questions that!
Posted on: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:05:14 +0000
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