Comments on: Sebelius steps down

By: gpc31

gpc31 — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 19:51:24 +0000

Burwell will sail through the confirmation hearings. She is perceived as a smart, competent, discreet technocrat who has punched all the right tickets: Harvard, Rhodes, McKinsey, Gates Foundation, and OMB. She is a former protege of Bob Rubin. Walmart will help, not hurt her credibility (the Left can sputter all it wants). The Dems see her as a loyal Clintonista (which she assuredly is) and the right sees her as sensible. In sum, too well-connected and credentialed to be denied.

That is not to say she will be a good HHS secretary. I worry that she is nothing more than a product of her environment, a thoroughly doctrinaire liberal. I see no evidence whatsoever of any independent thought or penetrating insights.

I happen to have known her before she (formally) entered politics.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:57:12 +0000

Burwell might catch a ration for the partisan managment of the shutdown.

By: blert

blert — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:01:21 +0000

My take: Barry has been hunting for months to find a replacement that could withstand the nomination process.

The 2014 election cycle has begun.

“The timing is all.”

And of the vixen of the hour:

“O most pernicious woman!
O villain, villain, smiling, damn’d villain!”

“You speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.”

“Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes. “

By: Elizabeth L. Crain

Elizabeth L. Crain — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 22:38:47 +0000

@ Don Carlos: the Kansans I know (I grew up there) consider Sebelius a carpetbagger. There may have been enough of them to elect her governor at one point, but she’s never been of, for, or about Kansas.

By: parker

parker — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:59:31 +0000

I suspect she decided to flee the sinking ship once the enrollment period ended. It is amusing that Sebelius forgot to bring the last page of her statement to the press conference. No wonder obamacare is such a bureaucratic disaster.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:46:30 +0000

Ann
I only brought up the Walmart connection because it, like the Koch brothers, is a favorite punching bag of the left.

While Wal-Mart IS “a favorite punching bag of the left,” the anointed one, a.k.a. Hillary Clinton, has served on the board of Wal-Mart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_clinton

By: Tonawanda

Tonawanda — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:30:43 +0000

Whatever her reasons, she gets to leave without having suffered a minute to minute campaign of degradation had her ineptitude been in service to the other party.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:28:05 +0000

It’s not a serious question, guys. Just playing the “six degrees of blame” connections game that the leftists play. *shrug*

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:45:51 +0000

I only brought up the Walmart connection because it, like the Koch brothers, is a favorite punching bag of the left.

By: Don Carlos

Don Carlos — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 20:37:20 +0000

Tesh asks:
@Ann,
Does WalMart take money from the Kochs?

What an odd question. Why would the Kochs put $ into the Walmart Foundation?

I have not looked, but rather suspect the Walmart Foundation is being taken over from the inside by the Left, like Ford Foundation was, long ago. How to grow a cancer: start off with one malign cell in a sheltered environment.