WTF! Chuckles Todd talking over Axelrod in 'interview'...

[PCIntern]

Learned a few tricks from FOX, eh Chuckie?

Well, that was annoying to listen to...(MSNBC)

[amyrose2712]

1. He looks like my old boss,

but my boss was kinda cool, sometimes.

[grantcart]

2. The low point was that Chuck Todd asked Axelrod who was running the exchanges

It was obvious neither knew the answer casting doubt whether they has bothered to read it.


Exchanges are going to be run by OPM not HHS.

[elehhhhna]

4. The OPM is outsourced to the Carlyle Group, fyi..

Contracted out during the Clinton Admin, bought by Carlyle/Bin Ladens/et al a few years later.

[grantcart]

6. 95% incorrect 5% true but outdated.

The Office of Personnel Management is a large federal bureacracy that runs the Civil Service of the federal government.

It never has outsourced the key functions of its office. The OPM website shows a partial list of the scope of the OPM. http://www.opm.gov/

One of its ancillary functions is to run background checks on federal employees who apply for government employment.

After a report is received then civil servants are scheduled for test by OPM employees. Once hired the OPM works as the Human Resource wing of the Government.

Conducting background checks (checking databases for criminial convictions, military service and credit background) is conducted by USIS which was part of OPM and then privatised as you noted by the Clinton administration. The USIS never had any involvement in anything besides background checks for OPM. Reportedly Carlyle has sold that interest.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group

The Carlyle Group was once a major investor in US Investigations Services, which is the privatized arm of the United States Office of Personnel Management's Office of Federal Investigations, but has since divested itself, selling its stake to Providence Equity Partners in 2007.



In any case USIS, the Carlyle Group never had any involvement in administering Federal Employee Benefit plans as OPM has done for all federal employees and will now be doing for the state exchanges.

[goclark]

5. "Lil Chuck the "good old boy" is jumping the sharks

now days.

Recall how he does his "polls" that usually have Obama low.


I can still see his friend Tim Russet flipping his "BUSH" button that was hidden under his suit lapel ~ remember that one?

[BunkerHill24]

3. I thought that was weird.....how he got an interview with Exelrod is mind boggling.

I mean, REALLY....I can't fathom he was given credentials as a White House reporter. The man qualifies nothing more than College and or High school journalism. Of course there is nothing wrong with college/high school journalism.