Boehner Fails to Fail on Obamacare
Source: Talking Points Memo
Late last week Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made a big show of trying but failing to sign up for Obamacare because of the notoriously buggy website. (Actually he appears to have been using the DC exchange site.) He even did a special tweet noting his hopeless situation. Not terribly surprising given the frustrating experiences so many have had.
Actually, it turns out he had successfully enrolled and got a call confirming that about an hour after his tweet. But it gets better.
According to Scott MacFarlane, a reporter for the local NBC affiliate in Washington, reports that a DC Health Care exchange representative actually tried to contact Boehner by phone during the enrollment process but was put on hold for 35 minutes, after which time the representative finally hung up.
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The linked tweet regarding Boehner putting the DC representative on hold is hilarious: "DC health exchange spokesman says Speaker Boehner office kept DC representative on hold 35 minutes, 'lots of patriotic hold music', hung up."
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That brings new meaning to fail tweet
On edit:
There has to be a #hashtag for this ironic failed failure pose. #ShutdownBoehner
