Newly released emails show the Obama regime mislead the Congress about the readiness of Obamacare’s small business exchange

  During the long Thanksgiving weekend, when the Obama regime thought (hoped) that nobody was paying attention, it was announced that the president was delaying the small business exchange portion of the healthcare website by one year. As I wrote in this post, this was done in order to make it look as if the healthcare website was functioning better than it was after the relaunch by limiting the number of users on the site.

  The Obama regime testified in front of the Congress and promised the regime was on track with all deadlines, but newly released emails show they made a decision back in August to delay the small business exchange portion of the website:

The Obama administration knew in advance that Obamacare’s online small business (SHOP) exchanges would not be ready by deadline and agreed to delay part of the website as early as August, according to emails obtained by House Energy and Commerce Committee investigators.

The Committee accused Obama administration officials of misleading Congress about the website’s progress.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials and Obamacare website contractor CGI Federal secretly agreed that the SHOP program would have to be delayed more than a month before the administration told the American public that the program would still be ready on time.

  This is not sitting well with members of the Congress:

Congressional investigators see this as evidence that the Obama administration concealed its knowledge about the website’s failures from the American people — until it was too late.

“As the paper trail broadens, we see more and more evidence that the administration was fully aware its signature health care law was not ready for prime time,” said Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

“The documents we are now reviewing tell a much, much different story than what officials testified to Congress. While it’s not clear if any ‘blood oath’ was taken, the president’s top lieutenants repeatedly looked us in the eye, insisting that they were ‘on track’ when they knew looming deadlines would be impossible to meet. These are not the characteristics of the ‘most transparent administration in history,’” Upton said.

  This is not surprising to me in the least because the Obama regime seems to have difficulty determining fact from fantasy (to put it mildly) and I would have been surprised to learn the Obama regime told the truth for once.

  The only question is; what, if anything, is the Congress going to do about this?