Rollout Hearing

Did anybody watch the House hearings on the obamacare rollout disaster yesterday? Democrats on the committee led by Henry Waxman kept repeating the worn out blather that the system is working, people are getting insurance premiums lowered, and the Republicans are to blame for shutting down the government. Charles Rangel gave a history lesson that is only true in little pea-brained Democrat minds saying Republicans were against Social Security ad nauseum.

Several Democrats made comparisons to the Bush Medicare Part D rollout because it was slow at first also. The difference, of course, is that there was no mandate forcing people to buy Medicare Part D, and they had no expectations or need for millions to sign up in the first few months.

Sebelius, after apologizing for the rollout failure, then went on to blame Verizon for the shutdowns, and said the website had never crashed, even though it had crashed three times over last weekend and was offline at that very moment. When asked about the Obama promise that you can keep your health care plan, period, she said that was three years ago, even though Obama said it again last month. She defended it by saying that the plans people are losing are inferior plans, and when reminded that people are finding the new costs up to 400% higher, she said the website allows them to shop around. She completely ignored the problem that every plan you can shop around for costs more. Obama's lie about keeping your policy got lost in the shuffle and it came down essentially that people have to pay more because it's their own fault. When asked about delaying the individual mandate she said "No," because it's the law. When confronted about single men needing maternity care in their insurance she said, some men need maternity care.

I would say fools are generally irrational, and you can't argue with irrationality. Men, as well as 70 year old women, needing maternity care is pretty irrational. In fact, there was a whole lot of irrationality coming from the Democrat side yesterday. One old codger even got up wanting to fight a Republican. He claimed 17 million children would be uninsured without obamacare and accused the Republicans of not having a plan. The congressman he was arguing with said it was a false choice because there are other ways to cover the children and he held up a bill he planned to introduce today for an alternate plan. Unfortunately the Republicans were all over the place with their questions and they failed to hold Sebelius' nose to the question of what Obama knew and when.

The most focused Republicans were a couple of congresswomen who didn't waste any time with niceties and thanking Sebelius for being there and were pretty much on fire asking their questions. It's too bad the rest of the committee wasn't as forceful as they were. One congressman from Texas tried to get cute referring to the Wizard of Oz and telling Sebelius she wasn't in Kansas anymore. It basically backfired on him from Democrat ridicule.

The hearing finally ended after three and a half hours. I watched about two hours of it, but I had to keep leaving and coming back because some of the things people were saying were so asinine I couldn't stand to listen, and I didn't get all their names either. I'd say I really don't know what they accomplished except to prove that Sebelius can lie as well as the rest of them, and even though at one point she took the blame for the failure, it was only to protect someone she had just fingered as responsible. Just like in all the Obama scandals, no one has yet been held accountable for anything, and Sebelius has no plans to hang anyone.

The Democrats left the hearing with the same fog in their eyes that they came in with, and went back to the Lala Land in which they live. The Republicans walked out having failed to nail Sebelius when she could so easily have been nailed. And Washington goes on in its mad rush to destruction.