Wednesday, November 20, 2013

'Security flaws' will be the straw that breaks ObamaCare's back

(My new American Thinker post)

 It may be time to call for the Little League "mercy rule" because this is getting ugly to watch.  This is not just a blemish on the Obama administration but our country is really looking bad.   

Let's check the last two items from the front pages:  

 1) The lady who was "hailed" as an ObamaCare success story is now another ObamaCare problem.   She can't afford her premiums. We hear that she got the wrong "premium info" when she went in for a quote.  My guess is that she is not the only one.   

 2) We learned that there are serious security flaws on the website:  

 "A respected security expert will warn Congress on Tuesday that the Obama administration's healthcare website has security flaws that put user data at a "critical risk," despite recent government assurances the data is safe.   
"There are actual live vulnerabilities on the site now," David Kennedy, head of computer security consulting firm TrustedSec LLC, told Reuters ahead of his testimony at a Congressional hearing on the topic "Is My Data on HealthCare.gov Secure?"    
Kennedy, a former U.S. Marine Corps cyber-intelligence analyst, said his firm has prepared a 17-page report describing some of the problems. It does not go into specifics in some areas, he said, because that could provide criminals with a blueprint for launching attacks.     
"There is a lot of stuff that we are not publicly disclosing because of the criticality of the findings," he said. "We don't want to hurt people."     
Kennedy and other security experts have warned that vulnerabilities on the site pose risks to the security of user data since shortly after its October 1 launch."     

 Bad quotes and security flaws add up to one thing:  Pull the plug!  

 Shut down ObamaCare before more Americans are hurt or have their privacy compromised.     

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Something is happening in Colorado


We've been busy with all of the ObamaCare problems and other issues but something is happening in Colorado.

 You may remember the recalls earlier this year and the recent defeat of a tax increase.

 We spoke with Laura Carno of I am created equal in Colorado.  

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(BABALU) A word for Obama: “Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente”

(My new Babalu post)
Wake up Obama or you may drifting downstream with all of the other "camarones".
The latest explanation about the ObamaCare "fumble" is that President Obama does not like to hear "bad news".
This is from Gloria Borger:
 "People don’t like to tell him bad news,” says an ex-White House staffer. “Part of it is the no-drama culture.”"
My guess is that President FDR did not like getting the bad news from Pearl Harbor or those horrible casualty reports from 1943-44.  Also, President GW Bush did not enjoy hearing  about planes flying into the World Trade Center or that violence was out of control in Iraq 2006.
To say the least, bad news comes with the job.  In other words, a man who does not like "bad news" should be holding a safe Illinois Senate seat in Rev Wright's neighborhood rather than serving as commander in chief of the US.
My guess is that this is a lot more complicated than the "boss" does not like bad news.
I think that there are two problems in this White House:  
1) The boss is "disengaged", "disinterested" or "an abdicative manager" as Frank Burke wrote at American Thinker in 2011:  
"In classic management theory, Barack Obama would have to be described as an abdicativemanager.

The abdicative manager evidences a tendency to flee from responsibility and is frequently encountered in situations where he or she never wanted the job in the first place (for instance, a son or daughter who inherits a company or the individual who discovers that they are incapable of adequate performance). Abdication can be exhibited in a variety of ways, ranging from physically removing oneself through travel (the confusion of movement with action), to obsessing about personal interests or a limited range of controllable subjects.
Obama's frequent vacations and absences, especially in times of crisis, coupled with his unwillingness to personally invest himself in key initiatives, are demonstrative of this style. An excellent example occurred after passage of the healthcare initiative.
Having ceded authority in what would later be described as his key achievement to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, he watched as they forced the bill through under a manufactured emergency that precluded lawmakers from having time to read it.
He then went on a four-day vacation before signing it."
2) No one was put in charge of the ObamaCare project. There were lots of people with titles or who made appearances before Congress. Unfortunately, there was no project manager who oversaw all of the components and held people accountable along the way.
President Obama has been using a lot of football analogies, i.e. fumble, my team, etc.
The truth is that he fell asleep on the job!  He did not take the time to get engaged or to demand explanations.  Sadly, the message came down the chain of command that the boss was not demanding results!   
He should have read what Lee Iococca said about being the boss:
"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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