Former Bush Officials Eagerly Compare Obamacare Rollout To Hurricane Katrina

[RandySF]

When it comes to the bungled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, former George W. Bush officials insist they've seen this movie before. In fact, they had a front row seat.

"There are moments in a presidency where everything is different afterward and I believe this is that moment," former Bush communications adviser Nicolle Wallace said Friday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "For us, it was Hurricane Katrina because while public support had been dropping for the war in Iraq, after Katrina, after many members of the public and every member of the Democratic Party viewed us as incompetent and it transcended to everything else we did.

"You know, you can't look in a crystal ball but I believe this is a moment after which everything will be different for the President," Wallace added. "And if you look at the problems he's facing in the world, with Iran and other issues, he's going to miss his credibility very much."

Can President Obama reclaim that credibility, host Joe Scarborough asked Wallace.

"Among large numbers of the public, no," she said.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-bush-officials-eagerly-compare-obamacare-rollout-to-katrina

[scheming daemons]

1. by my count, this is his 5th Katrina

BP oil spill was his "Katrina"

Fast and Furious was his "Katrina"

Afghanistan surge was his "Katrina"

Benghazi was his "Katrina"

And now ACA rollout is his "Katrina"



There are more Obama Katrinas than there are George Foremans.

[KittyWampus]

2. what would they compare rightwing hackers DDOD'ing the ACA website?

Using an attack tool called "Destroy Obama Care".


http://www.examiner.com/article/right-wing-cyber-attacks-on-healthcare-gov-website-confirmed

Yesterday, the House Homeland Security Committee published a video on their Youtube page highlighting a portion of the committee questioning Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cyber-security and Communications, who confirmed at least 16 attacks on the Affordable Care Act’s portal Healthcare.gov website in 2013.

Roberta Stempfley highlighted one successful attack that is designed to deny access to the website called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is designed to make a network unavailable to intended users, generally through a concerted effort to disrupt service such as repeatedly accessing the servers, saturating them with more traffic than the website is designed to handle.

Right wingers have been distributing the link to the necessary tools to perform the attacks on the Healthcare.gov website through social networking, as pointed out by Information Week, and other websites .

The name of the attack tool is called, "Destroy Obama Care!"

[Octafish]

3. No. Bush knowingly let people die during Katrina.

Like he gave a darn.

[Dawson Leery]

4. ACA is an attempt to help people.

Unelected drunk fratboy sat on the sidelines while tens of thousands lives in squalor in the superdome.