No, Obamacare’s flaws are not like Hurricane Katrina!

[DonViejo]

There are many things wrong with comparing a healthcare roll-out to the deadly hurricane. The main one: Nobody died

JOAN WALSH

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Evelyn Turner, right, with friends and family, waiting with the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans, Aug. 30, 2005. (Credit: AP/Eric Gay)

It’s one thing for former George W. Bush flack and Sarah Palin staffer Nicolle Wallace to make a silly and self-serving link between the troubled rollout of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act and her boss’s handling of, wait for it, Hurricane Katrina. It’s another for the New York Times to pick up the cudgel and seriously make a comparison between the Affordable Care Act acknowledged problems and the deadly 2005 tragedy.

But that’s what the paper did Friday morning, with Michael D. Shear’s “Health Law Rollout’s Stumbles Draw Comparisons to Bush’s Hurricane Response.” Other media are using the Times piece to make the same comparison. ABC’s “Good Morning America” did a whole segment on it; as I write, the chyron on MSNBC asks “Obama’s Katrina?”

Shear put it this way:

The disastrous rollout of Obama’s health care law not only threatens the rest of his agenda but also raises questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency….

“The echoes to the fall of 2005 are really eerie,” said Peter D. Feaver, a top national security official in Mr. Bush’s second term. “Katrina, which is shorthand for bungled administration policy, matches to the rollout of the website.”

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/15/stop_comparing_obamacares_flaws_to_hurricane_katrina/

[Atman]

1. Yes, I can't help but think of all the poor Katrina victims on their laptops...

...trying to log into the Superdome's wifi in hopes of ordering up some fresh water for next month. Tragic! It's exactly the same.

[Jamaal510]

2. Will the GOP

ever realize that the 2012 election has been over for about a year now? Obama already got re-elected, so why do they continue to obstruct and drag his name through the mud?

[CBHagman]

4. No, they won't, because this is their MO.

The GOP's default position is A)define your opponent (easy when the media will obediently echo Republican positions); B) if elected, treat him as illegitimate; C) block his policies; D) hold time- and money consuming investigations under any and all pretenses; and E) attempt impeachment.

[Earth_First]

3. They're just like Katrina!