२३ डिसेंबर, २०१३

An extra day to sign up for Obamacare... because somebody just noticed the existence of time zones.

Huh?

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mccullough म्हणाले...

Tomorrow Obama will push Christmas back a week. There is nothing this man can't do.

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

Or, could they be punishing the tech staff for botching the Obamacare rollout by making them work till midnight Christmas Eve?

Levi Starks म्हणाले...

Nobody does a better job of carrying water for Obama than NPR

Levi Starks म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Sorun म्हणाले...

I was sweating bullets trying to get signed up by midnight, but now everything's okay. Thanks Barack, you're bestest president ever.

mccullough म्हणाले...

Get your Obamacare policy through the Althouse Amazon portal. Order by midnight Christmas Eve and it will be in your stocking Christmas morning. Free pair of a plaid union suit pajamas and a cup of hot chocolate.

Original Mike म्हणाले...

"An extra day to sign up for Obamacare... because somebody just noticed the existence of time zones."

Why not just do away with them? One time for the entire country. Call it, oh I don't know, call it Coordinated Obama Time (OTC).

BigFire म्हणाले...

Laws? Where we're heading with Obamacare, we don't need Laws.

CWJ म्हणाले...

Left bank,

No they've punished the insurance clerks to work Christmas Day.

Michael म्हणाले...

Well, there you go. Time zones. Which themselves solve,not cause, the problem. NPR. Awesome.

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

Moves the the bad news enrollment numbers to a holiday.

Fritz म्हणाले...

"mccullough said...

Tomorrow Obama will push Christmas back a week. There is nothing this man can't do."

Well, he is the chosen one after all.

अनामित म्हणाले...

"An extra day to sign up for Obamacare... because somebody just
noticed the existence of time zones."


Making $hit up as we go along to get through the next news cycles....

Bob Ellison म्हणाले...

In western Europe, they have one time zone. True story.

अनामित म्हणाले...

pssst: Somebody tell them, the folks in the farthest time zone are leftists and have their own exchanges...

अनामित म्हणाले...

Bob Ellison said...
In western Europe, they have one time zone. True story.


well two if you count the Brits :)

GMT and CET

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?

Tank म्हणाले...

The LAW is whatever HE says it is.

John Borell म्हणाले...

At first I thought this was a joke. Then I realized it is a joke, just not the kind of joke I thought at first.

अनामित म्हणाले...

The Affordable Care Act will go down as the greatest accomplishment of the Obama Administrations -- but will that be a good thing or a bad thing?

FleetUSA म्हणाले...

Excuses excuses excuses

Elliott A म्हणाले...

Spain does double daylight savings time

Alex म्हणाले...

mccullough said...
Get your Obamacare policy through the Althouse Amazon portal. Order by midnight Christmas Eve and it will be in your stocking Christmas morning. Free pair of a plaid union suit pajamas and a cup of hot chocolate.


LOL!!!!

Sorun म्हणाले...

"Gallup released a separate poll on Monday that found 36 per cent of Americans say Obamacare represents President Obama's biggest failure. Just 22 per cent believe it's his greatest achievement."

I wonder how many of the 22% are damning him with faint praise.

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

Apparently Obama is signing up for Obamacare today.

So maybe he gave himself an extra day because he wasn't actually able to sign up before the deadline.

Which gives me the giggles.

अनामित म्हणाले...

All the bridges across the Mississippi River and all the skyscrapers in New York City were designed by engineers and architects who attended lots of lectures in college. It works.

What's driving the attacks on lectures is the decline in the quality of students. Faculty are struggling to find ways that work for not bright students.

Clyde म्हणाले...

Adding another day to the Titanic's voyage doesn't make it any more seaworthy.

Oso Negro म्हणाले...

Is no one here distressed that Obama's administration simply keeps altering the content of the law as they see fit? Constitutional government lets us resolve our differences through the legislative process. This is dictation. Not even competent dictation.

n.n म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
n.n म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
n.n म्हणाले...

They have already forgot their talking points. Didn't the Democrats state that requiring people to sign up is racist? That requiring any affirmative action or statement to receive positive benefits, and presumably also negative benefits, is racist? Holder argued that passive and affirmative statements and actions were equivalent under the administration's selective enforcement of the law.

Michael K म्हणाले...

In the meantime, he is five time zones away from the problem. Problem solved !

Somebody म्हणाले...

Desperate to pump up enrollment numbers by any means possible. Even one more day helps a little.

"Anticipating high demand. . . ." Yeah, right.

अनामित म्हणाले...

Eastern Substandard Time?

F म्हणाले...

Bob Ellison said:

"In western Europe, they have one time zone. True story."

Same thing in the western US.

Henry म्हणाले...

They should extend the sign-up period indefinitely. Venus time.

If form-filling is reported as sign-ups, and sign-up lasts forever, then there's never a time when the government needs to count up the uninsured.

Problem solved.

geokstr म्हणाले...

Apparently Obama is signing up for Obamacare today.

1) And we know that to be a fact, exactly, how? From HHS press releases?

2) What are the odds that Obama himself actually logged into the site and followed all the bouncing balls until the policy choice was in his cart? Did he pay for it yet?

3) He probably had his crack crew of hundred million dollar no-bid Canuck consultants do the actual data entry. For an extra 50 million add-on to the original agreement.

अनामित म्हणाले...

Oh god, this is huge though. I forget what it was now, but I had to do some government form that had a deadline online ***and they shut the website down on non-business hours****.

What was the point of that? Isn't the entire point of a website that you don't have to shut it down as there is no government gremlin hunched over a hand crank making sure the lights stay on?

It was particularly absurd if you were on west coast.

gadfly म्हणाले...

"Obamacare? We don't need no stinkin' Obamacare!

"Obamacare, to god-damned hell with Obamacare! We have no Obamacare. In fact, we don't need Obamacare. I don't have to show you any stinking Obamacare, you god-damned asshole and motherfarker!"

Smilin' Jack म्हणाले...

Next up: "The dog ate our servers!"

Matt Sablan म्हणाले...

I'm so trying that excuse on the IRS for taxes.

Oh, wait. My taxes will be done in February, the weekend after I get my W-2.

PB म्हणाले...

Just as Obama claims to have "discovered" buying insurance is hard, he now claims to have "discovered" time zones.

What will this cherub discover tomorrow?

The incompetence is breathtaking.

Humperdink म्हणाले...

Apparently the system could not recognize Obama's identity when he attempted to sign up, so his staff did it.

From the comments in the link: "For what its worth... nobody else has been able verify Barack Obama's identity either."


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/12/figures-obama-tried-to-sign-up-for-obamacare-but-system-couldnt-verify-his-identity-video/

damikesc म्हणाले...

You know, if it was me, I'd be too embarrassed to use such mind-blowingly stupid excuses.