The Failure of Obamacare as a Synecdoche for the Failure of Obama's Whole--and Wholly Awful--Agenda

A synecdoche is

(a) figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).

Strictly speaking, this headline--‘Tech Experts: Health Exchange Site Needs Total Overhaul’-- may not be a synecdoche. But there's no doubt that, once Obama's gone, the whole country will be deep in a hole, and in desperate need of overhauling.

Update: Here's Mark Steyn on the apparent impossibility of, in synecdochic terms, pulling up the airplane (i.e. the U.S.) before it smashes into the ground:

 (I)n my book when it came out, whatever it was, a couple of years ago, it had a very simple point, that the question was whether the governing institutions of the United States of America were capable of meaningful course correction. And I think we’ve just seen...the net result is that we keep telling the world that we’re not capable of serious course correction. And that’s a problem. And I well understand why people like Ted Cruz get impatient with it. They’re right to be impatient with it. Right now, the governing institutions of the United States are utterly repulsive and disgusting. This bipartisan bill agreed yesterday includes $175,000 dollars to the widow of the late Senator, Frank Lautenberg, because apparently, it’s the tradition of the Senate to give significant six figure payments to the widows of distinguished senators. Why is that in this bill? It’s nothing to do with this bill. And that’s why government, more spending, more debt, another trillion dollars as we go float free of the debt ceiling, we’re telling the world that this is just the way it is now. No serious course correction can be mounted by America’s governing institutions. That’s a hell of a message.

No synecdoche there, but there is a sin of sorts (i.e. the sin, the sheer insanity, of overspending in the Obama way).