The Washington Post engages in some accidental drive-by journalism over the weekend, outlining the myriad of failures not only of the massive Obamacare legislation itself, but the lack of any substantive leadership from the Oval Office – namely one Barack H. Obama. It’s an interesting piece, and yet another glimpse into the chaotically disengaged and utterly self absorbed environment that surrounds the current President of the United States…
…“They were running the biggest start-up in the world, and they didn’t have anyone who had run a start-up, or even run a business,” said David Cutler, a Harvard professor and health adviser to Obama’s 2008 campaign . . . It’s very hard to think of a situation where the people best at getting legislation passed are best at implementing it. They are a different set of skills.
…(The exchange) was not ready (October 1) even though, for months beginning last spring, the president emphasized the exchange’s central importance during regular staff meetings to monitor progress. No matter which aspects of the sprawling law had been that day’s focus, the official said, Obama invariably ended the meeting the same way: “All of that is well and good, but if the Web site doesn’t work, nothing else matters.”
…A higher-level monthly meeting, intended to work through tough regulatory questions, was attended at first by Sebelius, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes. By late summer and early fall of 2010, the meetings petered out after some of the participants stopped attending, according to a former senior administration official.
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