http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/15/no-the-rollout-of-healthcare-gov-is-nothing-like-hurricane-katrina.html#blockquote
In general, explanation is easier when you have a reference point, which is why political reporters are quick to refer back to previous presidencies.
and that creates part of the problem, republican media likes to drag out the dead stinkin carcass of Reagan and other dead White guys and say "if Obama were more like him" or "he should learn a lesson from.....,
reality he is not them and none of them were able to accomplish what he has and they didn't have this kind of obstruction and stated plan to not give him anything he wants, but we got plenty in-spite of them.
At the same time, events ought to be understood on their own terms, and you can obscure more than you explain by forcing an analogy. To wit, this is the main problem with this piece in today's New York Times, which uses the Bush administration's failed response to Hurricane Katrina as the frame for the troubled rollout of President Obama's health care law:
Barack Obama won the presidency by exploiting a political environment that devoured George W. Bush in a second term plagued by sinking credibility, failed legislative battles, fractured world relations and revolts inside his own party.
President Obama is now threatened by a similar toxic mix. The disastrous rollout of his health care law not only threatens the rest of his agenda but also raises questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration’s botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency.
Pres. is only threatened by a rabid right wing that will not stop at anything just to get a win over him so far with the two elections and Lilly Ledbetter, health care, and wall street reform, Gay rights and more. they are hell bent on bringing him down, but even if they could he still did it for the betterment of the country and Americans, they destroyed it from green eyed jealousy and a dollar bill
There's no question that Healthcare.gov has been a fiasco—a blunder of a website that has embarrassed the administration and tarnish Obama's brand. At the same time, it's important not to overstate the scope of the damage. Right now, the problem with the website is that it can't accommodate everyone who wants to buy health insurance. This is a serious issue, but not the worst mistake ever made by a president.
By contrast, George W. Bush's response to Katrina comes close. Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest storms to ever hit the United States. It killed more than 1,800 people, destroyed tens of thousands of homes, caused billions in property damage, and nearly sank a major American city. And the Bush administration's response was criminally negligent, a basic failure of duty that should haunt everyone involved.
if you were to apply facts to majority of these right wing rants you would find the same result, trying to pick the most disastrous events in history and apply them to a Pres. who is trying to get insurance for all American without restriction at a fair price and they call it an abomination, what should we call them?
