Healthcare.gov crashed! Oh the humanties! DEFUND! DEFUND! DEFUND!
That's what we're hearing from Republicans this week. Michigan's own Republican Congressman Mike Rogers tweeted out this dickish tweet:
This is pretty bold stuff coming from a political party whose own web launch in 2009 did the Faceplant Heard 'Round the World the day it launched.
The Republican National Committee on Tuesday tried to downplay criticism of its newly unveiled website www.gop.com, which was plagued by embarrassing omissions and numerous crashes on its first day of operation...[T]he site was inaccessible for much of the day.
RNC New Media Director Todd Herman said the site was struggling from attracting “an enormous amount of traffic” [...]
Asked why the site kept crashing, Steele quipped, “It’s a little thing called traffic.”
“This thing has exploded off the blocks,” [RNC Chairman Michael] Steele insisted. “It’s a good thing when you get another email from Todd saying, ‘It’s down again.’”
So, yeah, be careful how hard you lob your scorn about website glitches there, pardners. Your site got a skabillionth the traffic that healthcare.gov got and, Cap'n, it still couldna take the strain.