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“When Obama was asked once what his basic deepest flaw was, he said, ‘deep laziness.’ And I wonder whether this is not the equivalent of that first debate last year. The guy just didn’t focus — playing too much golf.” – Andrew Sullivan, speaking about the Obamacare website fiasco last night on CNN.

Via the Associated Press: The Obama administration says it’s granting a six-week extension until March 31 for Americans to sign up for coverage next year and avoid new tax penalties under the president’s health care overhaul law. Monday’s move had been expected since White House spokesman Jay Carney promised quick action last week to resolve a “disconnect” in the implementation …

On the firing line are the administrators and executives of the companies paid hundreds of millions of dollars to create and operate the site. Click below for the live video.

Source.

Typically dead-on.

The woman standing behind the president nearly fainted at today’s press conference about the Obamacare website, prompting mocking tweets from Tea People claiming that the incident was staged to “make Obama look heroic.” Because he helped keep her from falling. As the woman was taken away, a medical patch on her arm was visible. UPDATE: She’s OK.

NOTE: I’ve replaced the live stream with the below recap of today’s speech.

“Send Air Force One out to Silicon Valley, load it up with smart people, bring them back to Washington and fix this problem. It’s ridiculous. And everybody knows that.” – Sen John McCain, speaking about the ongoing problems with the Obamacare website. Today President Obama will hold a press conference to speak about the site and the plans for a …

“First of all, I don’t if you’re aware of this, but when I had a heart attack three years ago, I was uninsured, and I haven’t been able to get insurance ever since then. Listening to all the pressure on the president to negotiate, a lot of it from inside this room, it made me think, is there a chance …

An electronic billboard for an Indiana shopping center features an Obama=Hitler message from the insane Lyndon LaRouche freaks. New Civil Rights Movement blogger David Badash notes that the Facebook page for CVS is being deluged with complaints. Badash adds that the sign is “not directly under their control.”

His followers are piling on.

“The Republicans have got to wave the white flag and say, ‘We fought a good fight and now it’s over.’ They cannot shut the government down and then bring about a default. We can’t do it. I mean, it would be devastating economically to every human being and the Republicans just can’t get tarred with that. So they tried and …

Rush Limbaugh: “The purpose was to get healthy people with average incomes to sign up and then gouge them, but the IT experts say the regime didn’t want them to see when they signed up they were getting gouged. So they caused the glitches that caused the slowdown so that people would keep trying to sign up, while not being …

The station’s general manager alerted us to the above notice via a comment left this afternoon on the post I wrote yesterday. Thanks very much to all the JMG readers who called him.

Which isn’t true, of course. Via Raw Story: In a follow up report, the reporter provided more details: “It’s like buying a house or a car. Your credit score and other factors can determine your interest rate. In this case, it can determine how much you pay in premiums.” The broadcast prompted conservative sites like The Weekly Standard and others …

From the website: In a mean-spirited fit of selfish anger, Barack Obama has shut down our nation’s war memorials. And he has declared open war on our honored veterans! The World War II memorial … the Vietnam Veterans Memorial … the Korean War Veterans Memorial – Obama has shut them all down to force his will on the House of …