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[Ross]

Three words of Management 101

October 25, 2013 by nolathe


Accountability- "The buck stops here" nature of ultimate source of authority to complete a task.

Delegate- Given the responsibility to complete a task.

Responsibility- Temporary and limited authority to complete a specific task.

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Johnson County, Kansas decisions are made at Staff level and blessed by the elected part-time 5 hours a week County Commissioners.  The go to work 40 hours a week folks are Delegating Accountability to the Commission thus avoiding Responsibility, completely back-asswards.  This occurs as a result of no vision or leadership, ie: collective vote of JoCo BOCC creating a herd mentality looking for a leader to follow.  I have nothing less than total respect for County Staff and their efforts in the absence of leadership.

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A President can delegate responsibility to a Cabinet Secretary.  The President maintains accountability.

The White House claims the President did not know or participate in the following debacles:

Not investigate New Black Panther charges 2008 Elections

Not investigate 2008 ACORN Election fraud charges

Fast and Furious (Weapons to Mexican Cartels)


Benghazi assassinations

IRS blocking TEA Party efforts 2010 elections
IRS sharing private information with the White House
NSA privacy violations
Blocking access to WWII veterans while allowing access of protesters to Memorials
Selectively inflicting pain to certain groups during the "shutdown" including active military families
implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)

I am sure there are many more but this is what comes to mind now.  No one has lost their job and no one is holding Obama ACCOUNTABLE because "he did not know".

Looking at the current status of Chicago, one can only guess Obama was piss poor at that also.

"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It"


http://nolathe.net/2013/10/25/three-words-of-management-101/

[Ross]

Obama under fire as contractors shift blame over healthcare website errors

Congressional committee left frustrated with lack of answers after contractors repeatedly deny their software is to blame for glitches



The contractors said it wa the government's responsibility, and not theirs, to make sure the website worked. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP


Contractors involved in the rollout of the exchanges that form a key part of the Affordable Care Act heaped fresh pressure on the White House on Thursday, refusing to take responsibility for glitches with the healthcare.gov website that have threatened to derail President Obama's flagship domestic policy.

Testifying before the House energy and commerce committee during the first congressional hearings into the debacle, four contractors repeatedly denied their software was to blame and turned the spotlight instead on the government agency in charge of overseeing the complex system.

More than 50 different companies, five government departments and 36 states were involved in building the website, which is designed to help millions of uninsured Americans find affordable coverage from private insurers.

But extensive bugs and delays in the registration and enrolment process have now forced the government to postpone a February 15 deadline for purchasing coverage, allowing an extra six weeks before fines are levied on those without insurance.

Angry Republicans and Democrats turned on the main private contractors behind the website on Thursday to seek an explanation for the glitches, but largely failed to show who was responsible for design or implementation flaws.

The closest admission of failure came from Andrew Slavitt of Maryland-based contractor QSSI, who revealed that systems to check identity were flooded with 178,000 requests on the first day that healthcare.gov was live, after a last-minute government decision to make people create accounts on the site before they could compare insurance products.

"After its launch, healthcare.gov was inundated by many more people than anticipated, which overwhelmed systems, including ours," he told the committee.

"This was partly caused by a late decision to make people register before they could browse. After initial scalability challenges, the [system] is now keeping up with the demand."

Slavitt also claimed his company had warned the government of potential bugs in other systems that it was asked to review, and suggested that the two weeks allotted for testing the system were insufficient. "Months would have been nice," he said.

The claims will heap pressure on health and human services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is scheduled to appear before the committee next week and already faces calls to resign from some Republicans.

The website problems have been seized upon by politicians who oppose the wider Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare, as creeping state-interference.

"This shows us why Washington should not be running our private healthcare system," Pennsylvania Republican Tim Murphy said.

But such attacks were angrily rejected by Democrats on the committee, who said the problems were being blown out of proportion.

"The goal here should be to fix it, not nix it," said Frank Pallone of New Jersey. "The Republicans are not trying to make this better – they are using the website glitches as an excuse to delay or defund Obamacare."

Lawmakers were even more exasperated, however, at the unwillingness of contractors to take responsibility or provide estimates of when the problems would be fully fixed.

"I cannot give you an exact date," said Cheryl Campbell of prime contractor CGI Federal. "I would prefer not doing that; I don't like to raise expectations."

She also repeatedly refused to say whether the website rollout should have been delayed.

"It was not our position to tell our client whether they should go live or not go live," Campbell said. "Over the past two weeks, the federal exchange has steadily improved ... We have confidence in our ability to deliver successfully."

This brought an angry response from California Democrat Anna Eshoo.

"You're essentially saying that everything was all right," Eshoo said. "It's not all right!"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/obama-contractors-obamacare-website-errors-software?CMP=ema_565&et_cid=53843&et_rid=ross_lw@yahoo.com&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fworld%2f2013%2foct%2f24%2fobama-contractors-obamacare-website-errors-software

[Ross]

CBS News: Explosion in Medicaid Enrollments May 'Threaten Entire Structure' of Obamacare

by Noah Rothman | 7:51 am, October 25th, 2013

Given the widely-reported problems associated with HeathCare.Gov, White House officials have taken to touting the successes the states are experiencing running their own health insurance exchanges. According to a CBS investigation, however, those exchanges are primarily funneling uninsured applicants into Medicaid. Experts tell CBS that this could "threaten the entire structure of Obamacare."


"According to a CBS investigation, in many of the 15 states that have their own health insurance exchanges, more people are enrolling in Medicaid than are actually buying private health insurance," CBS News reporter Jan Crawford revealed.

"There is concern that if that trend continues, there will not be as many healthy people buying insurance for this system to work," she continued.

RELATED: CBS' John Dickerson: Obama Headed Toward 'Credibility Death Spiral' Over Obamacare

Crawford said that the majority of the enrollees at this stage in the process are "overwhelmingly low-income people" who qualify for Medicaid at no cost.

Of the 35,528 enrollees in the state of Washington, 87 percent signed up for Medicaid. In Kentucky, 82 percent of the state's 26,000 enrollees were funneled into Medicaid. 64 percent of New York, 37,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees are now Medicaid beneficiaries.

"Supporters say this shows there's demand but industry sources say if we don't see real turnaround soon, there could be big problems for the entire system," Crawford concluded.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-news-explosion-in-medicaid-enrollments-may-threaten-entire-structure-of-obamacare/

[Warph]

Mooch Obuma's Princeton classmate is executive at
company that built Obumacare website

(Hmmmmm... Now ain't that something)

By Patrick Howley   4:57 PM 10/25/2013

First Lady Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of '85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

Toni Townes '85 is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, West Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998

George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal's parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.

As reported by the Washington Examiner in early October, the Department of Health and Human Services reviewed only CGI's bid for the Obamacare account. CGI was one of 16 companies qualified under the Bush administration to provide certain tech services to the federal government. A senior vice president for the company testified this week before The House Committee on Energy and Commerce that four companies submitted bids, but did not name those companies or explain why only CGI's bid was considered.

On the government end, construction of the disastrous Healthcare.gov website was overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of longtime failed website-builder Kathleen Sebelius' Department of Health and Human Services.

Update: The Daily Caller repeatedly contacted CGI Federal for comment. After publication of this article, the company responded that there would be "nothing coming out of CGI for the record or otherwise today." The company did however insist that The Daily Caller include a reference to vice president Cheryl Campbell's House testimony. This has been included as a courtesy to the company.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-is-executive-at-company-that-built-obamacare-website/#ixzz2io2SdE00

[Warph]

Army Warned Fort Hood Soldiers to Stay Away from
Tea Party and Evangelical Groups

Posted Friday, October 25, 2013

The US Army, under the direction of Piece-Of-Sh!t DICTATOR barack obuma, is instructing soldiers to stay away from the Tea Party and evangelical groups who are "tearing the country apart."

(When are people finally going to realize that it is Sambo that is "tearing the country apart."  I wonder how much more the military is going to take before they finally get sick & tired of the crap coming from barack's black anus and flush his butt)

The Washington Times reported:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/24/fort-hood-army-warned-them-tea-party-christians/

Don't donate to the tea party or to evangelical Christian groups — that was the message soldiers at a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood said they received from a counter-intelligence agent who headed up the meeting.

If you do, you could face punishment — that was the other half of the message, as reported by Fox News.

The briefing was Oct. 17, and about a half-hour of it was devoted to discussion about how perceived radical groups — like tea party organizations and the Christian-based American Family Association — were "tearing the country apart," one unnamed soldier said, to Fox News.

Among the remarks the agent allegedly made: Military members who donate to these groups would be subject to discipline under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the soldier reported.

Liberty Institute has stepped in to investigate. Michael Berry, one of the nonprofit's attorneys, said he has been advising the soldier about his options — but that in the meanwhile, he said the American public should be on guard.

"The American public should be outraged that the U.S. Army is teaching our troops that evangelical Christians and tea party members are enemies of America and that they can be punished for supporting or participating in those groups," Mr. Berry said, in Fox News. "These statements about evangelicals being domestic enemies are a serious charge."

[redcliffsw]

Lincoln and the Republicans established "national socialism" in this country.

It was their victory over the Constitution in 1865 that changed America.

[Warph]

Lincoln and the Republicans established "national socialism" in this country.
It was their victory over the Constitution in 1865 that changed America.

I don't understand.  Rep = national socialism?  Please explain.

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Obuma Claims He's Proud To Be A "Salesman" For Obumacare Train Wreck

(Fine by me, the more he ties the fate of his presidency to this debacle the better)

Via Washington Examiner:
President Obama in his weekly address Saturday said he was proud to be a "salesman" for Obamacare despite criticism over the glitch-filled rollout of the law's insurance exchanges.

"Some people have poked fun at me this week for sounding like an insurance salesman. And that's okay," said Obama. "I'd still be out there championing this law even if the website were perfect."

Obama's comments came after another week of withering criticism over the administration's rollout of a new website designed to enroll consumers in the health care law's public insurance exchanges.

Obama said at an event Monday that he is frustrated with the website and vowed it would be fixed, but also defended the health care law as a "good deal" for the public.

Opponents of the health care law criticized Obama, saying he was forced to resell the public on supporting his signature legislative achievement.

[Warph]

Conan: Dictator "in perpetuity" Obuma Tries To Explain Obumacare Without a Teleprompter

[Warph]

Obumacare Summed Up in One Sentence
by Dr.Barbara  Bellar

The long Version...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnAP0xnfjB8&feature=share&list=UUBzUlzAorA0Qi8GrhkVVYIQ

[Warph]

60 Minutes - Benghazi

Benghazi was a planned, sophisticated attack by al Qaeda against a barely protected American outpost.  Lara Logan reports:

Video:

Voices from the Benghazi investigation:

"We all knew it was a bad sign." That's how a British security officer described suspicious activity that happened the morning of Sept. 11, 2012. The officer who calls himself Morgan Jones -- a pseudonym he uses for safety - recalls how an unidentified man was caught taking pictures of the compound the morning of the attack.

Last year, the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi and a top secret CIA facility known as the Annex were the targets of a well-planned assault that took four American lives. Who did it? Logan asks Tom Joscelyn, one of the country's leading al Qaeda experts.

Morgan Jones tells Lara Logan about two separate security breaches at the U.S. Compound in Benghazi. The incidents occurred prior to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack and one -- involving an IED -- led Jones to believe the compound was being watched.

When the attack on the U.S. Compound began, Ambassador Chris Stevens immediately called his deputy, Greg Hicks -- a 22-year veteran of the foreign service -- who was based in Tripoli. In this excerpt from Logan's interview, Hicks remembers his boss as "the epitome of a diplomat."

Morgan Jones was hired to improve security at the U.S. compound in Benghazi. During his first drive through the city, he noticed black flags flying openly in the streets and grew concerned. He immediately thought, "Al Qaeda, terrorists."

Green Beret commander LTC Andy Wood was one of the top American security officials in Libya. LTC Wood tells Lara Logan that he believes highly trained professionals executed what's called a "swarm attack."

"Oh God, don't let him die." That's what Dr. Saifeddin Zoghbia, a Libyan ER surgeon, remembers hearing as he tried to save the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens. Here, he gives Lara Logan a detailed description of the night the fallen diplomat arrived at his hospital.?

Greg Hicks, a diplomat who worked closely with Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, explains why he thinks al Qaeda achieved a "double victory" in Benghazi.

LTC Andy Wood says he warned Ambassador Stevens that an attack on the U.S. Compound in Benghazi was coming. How does Wood feel about Benghazi today? Is it a scandal?

Tom Joscelyn tells Lara Logan that al Qaeda is pushing their agenda forward in Libya. Part of the problem, Joscelyn says, is that the West's definition of al Qaeda is wrong.

Who's more established in Libya today, the U.S or al Qaeda? LTC Andy Wood believes the the attack in Benghazi was a significant defeat for the U.S.

When LTC Andy Wood was based in Tripoli, he met with Ambassor Stevens every day. He says his respect for Stevens is what drives him to speak out about the attack on 60 Minutes.

Benghazi Ruins
October 27, 2013
More than a year after the attack, a 60 Minutes cameraman went to the U.S. compound in Benghazi to film and sift through the ruins. Here's some of the footage he brought back for the 60 Minutes investigation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157941n