The Obamacare Website is pissing me off! I want to repeal Obamacare SO bad but I also can't stand the website as well!
It's getting to the point now in the debate over Obamacare that perhaps it may be appropriate to label Darrell Issa as a flip-flopper.
Think about it: He, like many other Republicans in the House of Representatives, did the following in Congress:
1) Voted to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act 46 times
2) Held the U.S. government hostage over Obamacare and effectively ended the government shutdown
3) Spent weeks just to try to work on a bill to end the government shutdown and finally caved in at the last day to prevent the U.S. government from defaulting (well, not all of them. Issa voted to end the government shutdown)
Now in the last week, Issa is going after the Healthcare.gov website and it's problems, even going on CNN to be interviewed by Wolf Blitzer and admit he's "losing his patience."
Can you believe this guy?
http://www.politico.com/...
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa says he and his colleague are at the end of their rope when it comes to getting information on the launch of the Obamacare website.
“Sen. Lamar Alexander is a patient man, and he’s a very moderate senator. He has lost his patience. I’ve lost my patience,” Issa said Thursday on CNN’s “Newsroom.”
“We’re saying, ‘Start giving us at least the critical — and we prioritize — the critical discovery to let us understand, particularly related to documents we already have, that showed they were shown these failures,” he added.
Below the fold is the video:
First off, Issa must be kidding himself if he believes Senator Lamar Alexander is a moderate U.S. Senator. On the Issues.org labels Senator Alexander as a hard-core conservative:
http://www.ontheissues.org/...
http://www.mediaite.com/...
“Both Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and I have asked for documents, we set a reasonable deadline, it expired,” Issa said. “Now we really need to insist on those documents.”
Issa is requesting documents on everything from briefings that the website was not ready to be launched to worries that tax and voter information entered on the site could be vulnerable.
“They say they’re cooperating,” Blitzer responded, and then read aloud from a Health and Human Services memo pledging speedy delivery of the documents.
Issa said that ten of the eleven subpoenaed contractors had complied, except for QSSI, the primary company responsible for the site.
Now once the Healthcare.gov website is fixed and efficient, then what will happen next for Issa and his investigations on Obamacare?
The problem with Darrell Issa's argument and his apparent "loss of patience" is that by him attacking the inefficiencies of the Obamacare website, he's efficiently looking to get it better and by doing that, he's really supporting Obamacare.
You'd think Issa might want to continue repealing Obamacare or something useful for a change. Well, actually, none of which has produced anything for Issa so I suppose at this point he'll do anything to get attention.
And judging by his Tweets, Issa certainly loves attention indeed:
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Can't stand anymore of Darrell Issa?
Darrell Issa's Democratic challenger is Dave Peiser and here are the necessary links:
Dave Peiser for Congress: http://www.peiserforcongress.com/
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Here's the voter registration as of February 2013 by the actual CA-49 Congressional District, which combines parts of San Diego and Orange County. Note the number of Decline-to-State/Independents:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/...
Orange County:
Democrats: 22,239
Republicans: 44,833
Decline-to-State/Independent: 19,077
San Diego County:
Democrats: 84,282
Republicans: 107,221
Decline-to-State/Independent: 70,938
Total:
Democrats: 106,521
Republicans: 152,054
Decline-to-State/Independent: 90,015
If you live in or near California's 49th Congressional District and want a reason to start voter registration drives or take part in them, note that San Diego County Democratic Party has a calendar that keeps track of all activity going on, whether local Democratic club meetings or voter registration drive events:
http://www.sddemocrats.org/...
Start firing up the base in CA-49!