JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN: COULD WE BE WITNESSING THE PREMATURE DEATH OF OBAMACARE?

SECRETARY SEBELIUS, AKA "ICE QUEEN KATY"
MUST ANSWER FOR MAJOR HHS FOUL-UP!

With some Democrats in Congress abandoning ship and dreadful prospects in store for the website, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act seems destined for pipe -dream cemetery.  Certainly, if a like project had come off the drawing boards in such fashion in the private sector, there would be hell to pay.  But, with Obama's poorly thought out health plan, the government will probably continue to throw taxpayer money at a program and a website that were destined from the get-go for serious shortcomings.

In testimony before Congress, website developers criticized Health and Human Services planning and preparations, stating that testing of the site was an HHS responsibility.  Somehow, the testing never got done, and Obama's administration charged ahead full- bore, paying no heed to sentiment in the House of Representatives that  maintained that a delay in the act's roll-out was necessary.

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The website developers, however,  have a checkered past and a reputation for dropping the ball in their undertakings in both Canada and the U.S.  In developing a health registry for the government of Ontario, there were so many delays that eventually C.G.I.'s work became obsolete, and the project was for naught.  More than 24 million Canadian dollars were spent with C.G.I. before it was determined that their work was inappropriate for the task at hand.

In Vermont, C.G.I. has had so many delays in performing work that the state government is considering invoking penalties against the company.  But the big question remains that, in taking bids for a key project, how could the federal government's bidding process end up with a contractor with a spotty record of non-performance?

 Nancy Pelosi , as Speaker of the House, stated more than three years ago that Congress needed to pass the act in order for us to know what was in it.  Well, we are getting more and more familiar with Obamacare, and it is turning out to be quite scary.  So, just in time for Halloween, perhaps special Congressional death panels need to be summoned to consider if Obamacare is worthy of life-saving treatment.

With a growing chorus of demands for the resignation of "Ice Queen Katy" Sebelius, the beleaguered HHS secretary has responded by stating unequivocally that she does not work for those calling for her to step down.  That leaves Two for Texas wondering just who our "public servants" are working for these days.  There was a time when they were thought to work for the American people.  But, when you are an lifetime inside- the-beltway elitist like Katy, her statement fits her experience.

To the Democratic manor born, Mrs. Sibelius had as her father Democratic Governor John Gilligan of Ohio.  She served as a lobbyist for the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association before being elected to the Kansas legislature.  Eventually, she won the governorship of Kansas, and that position propelled her to the heights of the Obama cabinet as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department.  Her husband, Gary, is a federal magistrate and the son of a former congressman.  In effect, Mrs. Sibelius and her family have had a long history of slopping at the public trough.  In meeting hard-fast deadlines in the private sector, this lady would probably be at a total loss.

With Americans becoming more and more concerned about "glitches," flaws and non-functioning Obamacare call-centers, the ill-conceived Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act may be rapidly spiraling toward collapsing under its own weight of ignorance and incompetence.  And, dear readers, such an eventuality cannot come too soon.  If there is a lesson to be learned from this fiasco, it would be that the big government types who imbibed the potent leftist libations served in such abundance in Ivy League settings are badly out of touch with reality, and, even worse, are all to prone to undertake government schemes not in keeping with the desires of the American people.

Deo vindice!