Uh, Huston, we have a glitch

Lemmesee, the king is spending millions to advertise Robertscare to get people to enroll.  Hmm, much of the web site launch failure is being blamed on too many people trying to use the site.  Maybe the ad campaign should be suspended.

Besides, why do you have to advertise something that is supposedly the best thing since sliced bread?  Seems to me if Robertscare truly were the product advertised and argued over throughout two presidential campaigns everyone would know about it.  And if it’s “free” or heavily subsidized for the average citizen, why the need to advertise?  And if you’re going to advertise it, why pay professional football players as the pitch men?

Seems to me if you’re advertising health insurance you’d want to get at the main users of such a product which is the old geezers.  You don’t hire a Justin Beiber as the pitchman for denture cream.  You need someone who can identify with the geezer crowd.  You need to get the Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger, anyone making an ad for a  reverse mortgage, or the life styles lift people to make the pitch.

The last thing the king and his court of non-IT building goofballs want is a bunch of healthcare needy seniors signing up.  They need 7 million or so 20 somethings to sign up and not use the healthcare system to off set the cost of the old near dead who use 85% of the healthcare in America.  Well, for now anyway.  Once the death panels are up running as planned, that figure will go down to about 10%.  That 10% will be comprised solely of politicians, former politicians and their major donors.

Seems to me if the king knew the website was a disaster he could have avoided the embarrassment of the “glitch” filled launch by taking Republicans up on their offer to delay the launch until next year.  But the king is always the last to know everything going on in his court.  He didn’t know a thing about the IRS scandal until reading about in the paper.  Fast & Furious, besides a bad movie, what the hell is that?  NSA spying, you gotta be kidding me, who knew?   Benghazi, who’s Ben Ghazi?  He’s the last to know everything.

Now the website for his signature accomplishment has about 5 million bad lines of code and he and the dip $h!t in charge of the disaster - Kathy Sebelius – sit back and claim they didn’t know a thing about it.  Well, in the real world, they’d be fired for that.  Not knowing what’s going on in your department is seldom an excuse for your department’s failure.

Is anyone else tired of the word “glitch” to describe the utter meltdown of the Robertscare website?  A glitch is being seated by the kitchen at a restaurant on the night you plan to propose.  A glitch is having to stop for gas when you’re running late anyway.  The Hindenburg didn’t have a “glitch.”   The iceberg wasn’t a “glitch” for the Titanic.  The airlines never come out and say they had a “glitch” when one of their airplanes fall from the sky for some reason.  It wasn’t a “glitch” when a Canadian Rail train hauling gas and oil failed to make the turn in Edmonton and killed 40+ people.

The Robertscare website is not having “glitches.”  It is a disaster.  It is totally useless.  More than useless it is counter productive.  For young people – who the king desperately needs to sign up – it’s a royal pain in the azz.  These are people who text in real time to the guy sitting two seats over.  These are the people who if they don’t get their way at the drive through at McDonald’s are calling 911.  Even if the king can fix his 5 million lines of bad code that cost tax payers about $100 a line, it is unlikely the brand name can be restored sufficiently to entice young people to try again.

So after spending 600+ million dollars to roll out a worthless website, we’re paying pro athletes big bucks to direct young people to a site that doesn’t work – ostensibly because of too much traffic.  Now we’re going to pay hundreds of millions more to fix an already broken down brand new POS.  No doubt once "fixed," we'll need another expensive ad campaign to tell people to try again.

And yet Kool-Aid drinking neo-libs are convinced everything is going fine.  The only problem is not enough money to get the thing off the ground.  It’s always more money that fixes the problem for these idiots.  Asking for more money to get the Robertscare website off the ground is like asking for more money to create more lift to get Mt Rushmore off the ground.

Money is not the problem.  Robertscare is a bad idea being put into service by idiots.  And neither of those are the biggest problem with Robertscare.  The biggest problem is the shear, utter and colossal arrogance of the people in charge - starting with the king himself.