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Scuba

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1. It's weird that the otherwise very competent Obama administration outsourced this to a known ...

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2013, 06:21 PM

Nov 2013

... right-wing company and didn't seem to be aware that it was going to flop.

Trusting wingers to get the job done showed poor judgement, at best. Yes, the R's hamstrung it through underfunding, but the Administration knew that long before the site went live.

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Have Heads Begun to Roll Over Obamacare Imbroglio? [View all] FarCenter Nov 2013 OP

It's weird that the otherwise very competent Obama administration outsourced this to a known ... Scuba Nov 2013 #1

If you mean CGI Federal, I don't think they are a "right-wing company". FarCenter Nov 2013 #4

Of course they did. But they gave more to Rmoney. Scuba Nov 2013 #6

I'm wondering who was supposed to inform the President of the progress (or lack thereof) TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #2

Most likely Jarrett, since it is domestic and facing the public. FarCenter Nov 2013 #3

Well, one of them did a shitty job keeping the President up to speed. TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #5

Nancy-Ann DeParle FarCenter Nov 2013 #7

Thanks--De Parle sounds like one of those advisors that have all sorts TwilightGardener Nov 2013 #9

Shocking that you would regurgitate a rightwing CBS smear job on the ACA. geek tragedy Nov 2013 #8

From what I have seen... ljm2002 Nov 2013 #10

This is a report from last Wednesday, and ProSense Nov 2013 #11