Consider this question:
Which of the following actions got the perpetrator fired from the federal government:
a. Failing to use 3.5 years and 650 million dollars to create a workable healthcare exchange web site;
b. Using the resources of the IRS to illegally target conservative groups and individuals;
c. Allowing the American consulate in Benghazi to go essentially undefended despite warnings of an impending terrorist attack against the facility and requests from the ambassador for better security;
d. Falsely telling a federal court under oath that a reporter was likely guilty of a crime just so as to be able to wiretap the phones of the reporter and his close associates and family members; or
e. Saying that the plan announced by president Obama at a press conference two days ago to let some health insurance policies be sold if the companies and the insurance commissioners agreed, would undermine the Obamacare law.
If you guessed "e", you were correct. The Insurance Commission of the District of Columbia was fired within 24 hours of stating that he did not think that Obama's proposed "fix" for Obamacare was a good idea. Think about it. How many times in the last year have we heard that it's just so hard to fire a federal employee? Lois Lerner of the IRS was put on paid leave until she retired with her full pension. No way could she be fired. Kathleen Sebelius ran a department that wasted two thirds of a billion dollars to build a website that still won't function after seven weeks of constant repairs. No way she or anyone else at her department could be fired. The folks at the State Department who let four Americans die in an undefended consulate in Benghazi are not even fully identified. Certainly none of them have been fired or even demoted. Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath to a federal court but nothing happens to him. But when the Commissioner of Insurance for DC tells the truth and says that Obama's planned "fix" for Obamacare will undermine the law and is not a good idea, he is out of a job before he can even sit down.
Which of the following actions got the perpetrator fired from the federal government:
a. Failing to use 3.5 years and 650 million dollars to create a workable healthcare exchange web site;
b. Using the resources of the IRS to illegally target conservative groups and individuals;
c. Allowing the American consulate in Benghazi to go essentially undefended despite warnings of an impending terrorist attack against the facility and requests from the ambassador for better security;
d. Falsely telling a federal court under oath that a reporter was likely guilty of a crime just so as to be able to wiretap the phones of the reporter and his close associates and family members; or
e. Saying that the plan announced by president Obama at a press conference two days ago to let some health insurance policies be sold if the companies and the insurance commissioners agreed, would undermine the Obamacare law.
If you guessed "e", you were correct. The Insurance Commission of the District of Columbia was fired within 24 hours of stating that he did not think that Obama's proposed "fix" for Obamacare was a good idea. Think about it. How many times in the last year have we heard that it's just so hard to fire a federal employee? Lois Lerner of the IRS was put on paid leave until she retired with her full pension. No way could she be fired. Kathleen Sebelius ran a department that wasted two thirds of a billion dollars to build a website that still won't function after seven weeks of constant repairs. No way she or anyone else at her department could be fired. The folks at the State Department who let four Americans die in an undefended consulate in Benghazi are not even fully identified. Certainly none of them have been fired or even demoted. Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath to a federal court but nothing happens to him. But when the Commissioner of Insurance for DC tells the truth and says that Obama's planned "fix" for Obamacare will undermine the law and is not a good idea, he is out of a job before he can even sit down.
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