She's Gone

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by merrylander

You all seem to forget that the incompetent software company that screwed up the ACA site was put on the short list of approved vendors by the Bush administration and the vulgar references to her are totally uncalled for,

I'll be positive. Her one redeeming quality is that she is an avid jazz music fan. Bush did it is getting rather stale.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by bhunter

I'll be positive. Her one redeeming quality is that she is an avid jazz music fan. Bush did it is getting rather stale.

I am sorry but that company, recently acquired by a Canadian company was put on, or left on, the short list of approved vendors by the previous adminixstration despite a track record of total incompetence. As to whether George was aware of that is irrelevent.

I started programming in 1963 with a Univac III and quite frankly I was damn good. After coming down here I worked for a period as a private consultatnt, worked with several government contractors. I will try and be kind by saying that I was not impressed. Private industry complains about public service workers but are not in the least shy about sucking that big teat.

[barbara]

Merrylander.... Veering off topic, my dad worked with univac back in the early sixties too.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by barbara

Merrylander.... Veering off topic, my dad worked with univac back in the early sixties too.

I might well have known him. Sadly a lot of the Univac folks I knew back then were aboard Air Canada flight 418 when it crashed. Wow, I remembered the number, guess Alzheimer's has not hit yet.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I might well have known him. Sadly a lot of the Univac folks I knew back then were aboard Air Canada flight 418 when it crashed. Wow, I remembered the number, guess Alzheimer's has not hit yet.

He worked for Honeywell in Minneapolis.

He did work with Univac computers.... But I was young at the time and don't know the details.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by whell

Which would be a vast improvement over the stinking pile of crap we have now.

Actually single-payer/full-participation for basic health care would be an improvement. If there was an effective marketplace solution it's likely it'd look a lot like the ACA or 'Romneycare', and we'd already have it instead if it was more profitable than beneficial. SP/FP basic care could be 'dovetailed' with open-market health insurance to take in 'deluxe' coverage for elective surgery procedures and such.

[Ike Bana]

Hi Rob and barbara. In my brief time here I've come to like you both and appreciate your contributions to this forum.

However, in this particular case, what you've done is disrupt a wonderfully entertaining right-wingnut circle jerk.

[whell]

Originally Posted by merrylander

You all seem to forget that the incompetent software company that screwed up the ACA site was put on the short list of approved vendors by the Bush administration and the vulgar references to her are totally uncalled for,

More BS from the lib blogosphere. Is there nothing you guys won't try to blame someone else for, especially if it's Bush?

Sure, CGI became a Federal contractor under the Bush admin. But they had to go through a separate bid process to become the contractor for the Fed Exchange site.

A CMS spokeswoman told FactCheck.org the same thing via email.
“CGI did not receive any sole source awards,” she said. “They competed for the work on our multiple award contract.”

The spokeswoman said the competition to build HealthCare.gov was open to the 16 contractors that had been awarded an ID/IQ contract through the process Campbell outlined in her testimony, and, thus, were pre-approved for subsequent task orders.

Four of the 16 companies submitted proposals for the work order to build the marketplace website, the spokeswoman said. Those four were: Quality Software Services Inc., IBM, Computer Science Corporation and CGI Federal."

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/12/mic...d-cgi-federal/

Yeah, that's the same Fact Check article where they couldn't quite bring themselves to substantiate any personal connection between CGI Federal and Michelle Obama.

[whell]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Actually single-payer/full-participation for basic health care would be an improvement. If there was an effective marketplace solution it's likely it'd look a lot like the ACA or 'Romneycare', and we'd already have it instead if it was more profitable than beneficial. SP/FP basic care could be 'dovetailed' with open-market health insurance to take in 'deluxe' coverage for elective surgery procedures and such.

yawn

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by bhunter

I jumped up and kicked my heels together in a spirit of great joy. The incompetent sanctimonius bitch finally quit. She should never have been appointed for the SHHS post, but then, you could say that for the majority of the Obama cabinet.

With a bit of luck, perhaps Hiliary will decide not to run and good old Joe can be the democrat contender.

And Kansas replaced her with a wing-nut Jesus weasel. Go Kansas!