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  1. …but due to government hiring policies it will be a couple of guys whose last programming jobs involved punch cards and a couple of Occupy Wall Streeters that once had a great idea for a killer app while smoking choom in the drum circle.
    …but due to government hiring policies current employees have priority so they will be rehiring the developers that originally built it.
    …but due to union rules front end developers are not allowed to talk with application layer developers who are not allowed to talk to the back end developers.

  2. …he doesn’t understand Dakota Indian Tribal Wisdom…
    The tribal wisdoms of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that ‘when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount’. However, in many companies as well as in the government a range of far more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
    1.Changing riders (higher better expert riders)
    2.Appointing a committee to study the horse
    3.Arranging to visit other countries to see how others ride dead horses
    4.Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included
    5.Reclassifying the dead horse as ‘living impaired’.
    6.Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse
    7.Harnessing several dead horses together to increase the speed
    8.Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse’s performance
    9.Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse’s performance
    10.Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead, and therefore contributes substantially more to the mission of the organisation than do some other horses
    11.Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses…
    12.Announcing there’s a phone number to help you learn how to ride the dead horse…
    13.Proclaiming you don’t have any Horse Death Panels.
    14.Blaming the previous horse rider (Bush)

  3. President Obama vowed to hire the “best and brightest” to fix the Obamacare sign-up website…

    unfortunately they were busy trying to kiss up for some Anonymiss cookies so he got the OK and the somewhat illuminated.

  4. President Obama vowed to hire the “best and brightest” to fix the Obamacare sign-up website…

    he also vowed not to cheat on his golf score this round.

    only to discover the best weren’t the same thing as the brightest and vice versa.

    who turned out to be Beavis and Butthead.

    but they wouldn’t start work until they had abortions included in their health benefits.

  5. decided to hire the best and the brightest,

    only he had no idea where to look..

    cause nobody is “madder” than him! Why he had a hard time playing golf and EVERYTHING!

    which should only cost about a bazillion dollars on top of the 634 million already spent

  6. …however the “best and the brightest” already have jobs

    …however he quickly realized that the “best and the brightest” won’t have anything to do with a system designed to force them into government dependence and control.

    …but only as part-time contractors exempt from any employer benefits

  7. President Obama vowed to hire the “best and brightest” to fix the Obamacare sign-up website…

    who promptly decided it would be easier and cheaper to fix the world and everyone in it instead of the website.

  8. …and came close to admitting that him just using voice recognition software and saying “OK website, start healthcarin’ and stuff” might have needed some fine tuning.

    …and this time the programmers won’t have to use O’s instead of zeros.

    …because we are going to get Obamacare even if it doesn’t kill us.

    …but still faces the problem of any sane person wanting to inflict the horrors of it on anyone, so only mad geniuses need apply.

    …as he donned his ruby red slippers and pranced down the yellow brick road singing “You’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of open and say ahhhhhh”.

  9. President Obama vowed to hire the “best and brightest” to fix the Obamacare sign-up website…

    …because there’s never time to do it right, but there always seems to be enough time to do it over.

    …just as long as they’re not incandescent.

    …too bad it’s not like Geico, “So easy a caveman can do it”

    …now the uninsured will receive errors, “429 Too Many Requests” followed by “598 Network read timeout error”

  10. They recommended replacing it with a crowd-sourced, fully dispersed, self balancing, multi-modal system. Then got fired when someone figured out they meant repeal the law and let the free market do its job.

  11. President Obama vowed to hire the “best and brightest” to fix the Obamacare sign-up website…

    …but the Stuxnet guys were unavailable — having headed off to Israel for the high holy days.

    …in the end, it all depends on what your definition of “best and brightest” is.

    …What difference at this point does it make?”

  12. … but he was politely informed the incandescent bulbs were banned, so ‘brightest’ was out of the picture.

    … And since he thinks he’s better at policy than his policy advisors and better at speeches than his speechwriters, he assumed that the best and brightest was himself and raised his own salary.

  13. He didn’t hire me, so he’s not getting the best. He didn’t offer me the job, so he’s not the brightest. My name isn’t Bush, so he can’t blame me. I wouldn’t take the job if he did offer it, proving I am the brightest.

    On a different point, I heard that Obama hired some SEIU stooges to ORGANIZE and MOTIVATE the current web implementers. Don’t be surprised if your healthcare comes with an automatic SEIU membership and a free purple-people-beaters tee shirt!

  14. President Obama vowed to hire the “best and brightest” to fix the Obamacare sign-up website…
    in accordance with Equal Employment Opportunity and minority employment promotional standards.
    (They’re still looking for around 20 non-Caucasians to balance out the current team.)

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