AMHERST: Our Alumni Are Drunken Lechers.

THE ESTABLISHMENT HAS SPOKEN: Norman Ornstein: Buck Stops With Obama on Rocky Rollout of Health Care Plan. “I view the problem in a broader way. It is the larger failure of public administration that has been endemic in the Obama White House, and is probably the president’s most significant weakness.” He’s not very competent, and like most people who aren’t very competent, he tends to hire people who are no more competent than he. As they say: First rate people hire first rate people. Second rate people hire third rate people.

WHY OBAMACARE IS LIKE THREE MILE ISLAND. “The administration clearly understood this — right up to the point where a major component failed. Now it’s apparently planning to keep the reactor running with as many pieces as possible in the hopes that none of it will unexpectedly blow up. This is not sound policy thinking, or even sound political thinking, and I think that all of us who care about keeping insurance available for ordinary Americans should try to talk them out of it — for their good, as well as our own.”

Alternative analogy: The Iraq War.

ANARCHIST SEDITIONIST! Dem Senator Crafting Bill to Delay Obamacare Individual Mandate a Year. Obviously just wants poor people to be sick.

THE HILL: Two House Dems Call For Firings Over Healthcare Rollout Disaster.

CBS NEWS: HealthCare.Gov site understates prices by as much as half.

CBS News ran the numbers for a 48-year-old in Charlotte, N.C., ineligible for subsidies. According to HealthCare.gov, she would pay $231 a month, but the actual plan on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina’s website costs $360, more than 50 percent higher. The difference: Blue Cross and Blue Shield requests your birthday before providing more accurate estimates.

The numbers for older Americans are even more striking. A 62-year-old in Charlotte looking for the same basic plan would get a price estimate on the government website of $394. The actual price is $634.

That’s unimpressive. What would Obama say about a private business that did this?

JEDEDIAH BILA: GOP, Get Moving Now.

Yes, Healthcare.gov is a disaster. Yes, ObamaCare seems to fall apart a little more each day. Yes, a delay of the individual mandate could be imminent. Yes, the entirety of ObamaCare will be a mess. And yes, the GOP should be pointing out these things consistently.

However, that’s not all the GOP should be doing.

In the midst of this ObamaCare chaos, I want to see a concise, well-articulated, detailed GOP health-care reform alternative. I want to see sharp messengers on TV clearly presenting that alternative every day.

And guess what? I want to see it showcased on a website that works.

That last would be kinda twisting the knife. So, yeah, I like it.

WORKERS, CAST OFF YOUR CHAINS! Michigan teachers fight unions over forced dues. “Michigan teachers are discovering that their union is determined to make it as hard as possible for them to take advantage of the state’s new right-to-work law, which prohibits workers from being forced to pay dues to a union. Nine teachers sued the Michigan Education Association in the last week alleging unfair labor practices.”

LEAKS AND SECRETS: Fired White House Tweeter Accused Official of Leaking Stuxnet. “Joseph, who was outed in a report Tuesday in The Daily Beast, criticized and insulted dozens of Obama administration officials, lawmakers, Capitol Hill staffers, and journalists during his two-year stint on social media. But his number-one target was Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications Ben Rhodes, a senior official close to President Obama. Rhodes worked for the same department as Joseph, albeit at a much higher level. In the summer of 2012, Joseph issued multiple tweets under his @natsecwonk account suggesting that Rhodes was the source of classified information leaked to the press about the Stuxnet virus, a joint U.S.-Israeli cyber warfare effort to sabotage Iran’s nuclear centrifuge program. Joseph, as an official in the non-proliferation bureau of the State Department and later inside the White House, was part of the administration’s team working on the Iranian nuclear issue.”

ANARCHISTS! IT’S THE LAW OF THE LAND!!!!! Dems Breaking Rank On ObamaCare Delay.

TRANSPARENCY: Blue Cross Rep: The Feds Have Asked Us Not To Reveal The Number Of People Who’ve Signed Up For ObamaCare.

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NARRATIVE: Unlike Halliburton in the Bush 43 Era, No-Bid Nature of CGI’s Obamacare Contract Is a Media-Kept Secret.

WHITE HOUSE: Dick Durbin Isn’t Telling The Truth.

HIS SIGNATURE PROGRAM IS COLLAPSING AND HAS TO BE SAVED IMMEDIATELY. WHAT TO DO? Obama to go on post-shutdown fundraising blitz for Democrats.

He should be met at each location by Tea Party protesters with signs showing the “please wait” logo from the HealthCare.gov site.

CHICKS DIG PORN.

KANSAS SENATE CANDIDATE MILTON WOLF: Who Hired Kathleen Sebelius?

A PRESCIENT 2008 BIDEN SPEECH PARODY from Jim Treacher.

AMANDA CARPENTER: “Sooo… Obama shut down the govt to stop GOP from making any change to law he had to change a week later. Good times.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Greg Lukianoff: The Campus Surveillance State.

JOHN NOLTE: “This morning I was racist for wanting the OCare mandate delayed. Tonight I’m a pragmatic Democrat!”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: What I Learned From 40 Days of Dating.

SHOCKER: Obama’s ShamWow speech showcased misleading witness. But the ShamWow reference is unfair. ShamWow’s website works.

AUDIO: Politico Reporter Josh Gerstein on Obamacare: ‘There Are Signs the Ship is Cracking.’ From Hugh Hewitt’s show.

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