Obama Admin Pitifully Tries To Spin Obamacare Failures On Twitter
The Obamacare website has been an embarrassing disaster for the administration that used technology so well during the campaign. The Obama camp and it’s media allies have been overworking themselves trying to explain away, cover up, and ignore the debacle. And when that doesn’t work, they spin like a broken plane hurtling towards the unforgiving Earth.
Here’s one attempt captured by Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy site.
Ryan Lizza is a Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, so when he tweeted that he was able to sign up on the Obamacare website easily, Obama’s lackeys were more than happy to point it out:
Huh, I just tested http://t.co/IV0cLrFUr3 for the first time and I was able to set up an account with no trouble.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 17, 2013
Nearly three hundred retweets! Everyone make sure that America knows Ryan Lizza was able to sign up! We found one!!
Obama’s press spokes-hole Jay Carney made share his followers saw it. Senior communications advisor Tara McGuinness did the same.
And then they must have taken a nap.
Because they didn’t follow up with Lizza’s next tweets detailing how his application ran into a wall. A wall called Obama’s incompetence.
Got all the way to the end on http://t.co/BAwCWsojC5 and then it got hung up trying to submit app pic.twitter.com/rdVraRoJU0
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 17, 2013
Only 20 retweets on this one? I wonder why? Actually, no I don’t, that’s grade A sarcasm right there, party people.
So, yes, http://t.co/IV0cLrFUr3 is still broken.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 17, 2013
Maybe the Obamacare website was taking a nap too. Probably union-mandated. Or maybe Lizza only needed to give it a day to rest and give it another go:
Tried healthcare dot gov again. Still broken. Can set up an account and get identity verified, but can't view eligibility results or enroll.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 19, 2013
This is what it looks like when you hit "View Eligibility Results" pic.twitter.com/Dw5bNiqyzs
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 19, 2013
You didn’t build that! And neither did Obama. It’s unbuilt.
The link to register to vote does work, though: pic.twitter.com/XY5zi46yaa
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 19, 2013
Look ye, kings on Obama’s works, and despair!
To Lizza’s credit, he tried to correct Jay Carney on his story of the Obamacare website failure, but surprise! Jay Carney was still napping.
.@PressSec Jay, that tweet is very outdated. As I've subsequently noted on Twitter and on CNN, the site is still broken.
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) October 19, 2013
I, for one, perfectly understand the Obama administration’s constant napping. It’s hard work spinning the news like a top, especially when it’s so bad, all the time.
Keep spinning, little press secretary, you’ll get there!