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Sebelius on the Run
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 18, 2013 | Editorial

Posted on 10/18/2013 5:15:41 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The Affordable Care Act's botched rollout has stunned its media cheering section, and it even seems to have surprised the law's architects. The problems run much deeper than even critics expected, and whatever federal officials, White House aides and outside contractors are doing to fix them isn't working. But who knows?

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is even refusing to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a hearing this coming Thursday. HHS claims she has scheduling conflicts, but we hope she isn't in the White House catacomb under interrogation by Valerie Jarrett about her department's incompetence.

More disclosure might also help HHS preserve a scrap of credibility, given that none of its initial explanations has held up. Right now, no one trusts a word that emerges from Fortress ObamaCare.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: failure; obamacare; rinocare; sibelius
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...we hope she isn’t in the White House catacomb under interrogation by Valerie Jarrett about her department’s incompetence.”

Is the WSJ serious? ks is doing exactly what vj ordered - screw it up so badly fedgov will have to spend even MORE of OUR money to “fix it”. If they are in the “White House catacomb” I’m sure that they are swilling champagne.


21 posted on 10/18/2013 5:39:22 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

On the run?

Not yet. But she should be...


22 posted on 10/18/2013 5:42:13 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Seems like we lost the Cold War after all.

We are now a communist dictatorship run by sex perverts, degenerate foreigners, and an elitist entrenched political class in DC that is out for themselves.

Taxpayers need to pay and shut up about it.

23 posted on 10/18/2013 5:44:23 PM PDT by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Forward, hell. ATTACK!


24 posted on 10/18/2013 5:45:01 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: ncfool

Read a take the other day on why she is safe (I believe it was James Taranto): If she resigns or is fired, that opens up Congressional hearings for her replacement, which would result in some ugly exposure for 0bamacare.


25 posted on 10/18/2013 5:47:02 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (0bama lied, Stevens died, now 0bama covers up the lies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ha. Most Americans will care as much about this as Benghazi. The administration will continue to obfuscate and America will go back to watching the game and the Kardashians. They won’t notice until their tax refund is withheld. Ho hum.


26 posted on 10/18/2013 5:48:39 PM PDT by informavoracious (Of course I want people to have healthcare, I just didn't know I was the one who would be paying...)
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To: ncfool

More like running for POTUS.


27 posted on 10/18/2013 5:55:06 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

I wish the media and the GOP-e would.....to use a phrase used over and over again in the 9/11 aftermath....CONNECT THE DOTS!

Any reasonable analysis shows that this Obamugabe Death Panel law is killing jobs and WILL kill people. Already it is killing unborn children.

Instead, this dismal death culture goes on because of man’s pride.


28 posted on 10/18/2013 6:02:37 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Ann Archy

I’ve often had the same thought.......


29 posted on 10/18/2013 6:06:58 PM PDT by Arlis (.)
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To: Michael.SF.
Read a take the other day on why she is safe (I believe it was James Taranto)

I pray you and Taranto are right. As a KS native let me say we DON'T WANT HER BACK.

Actually there's little chance she would return anyway. Word is she was a carpetbagger from Ohio who couldn't wait to escape KS and get back to "civilization". I could be wrong but I don't believe she's been back even to visit since '08.

30 posted on 10/18/2013 6:08:39 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: onedoug

Not the first time, either. DHS, Fast and Furious, NSA, IRS, tens of millions of dollars missing from a DOJ “slush fund.” BENGHAZI...Not one subpoena issued. Key witnesses allowed to testify without being sworn in. One agency administrator caught lying to congress. Another allowed to invoke protection under the Fifth amendment, when it was only an administrative inquiry. Nobody’s done a thing.


31 posted on 10/18/2013 6:13:57 PM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wish y’all would stop blaming it on Sebelius, Jarret, etc........its Obama stupid!!!!!


32 posted on 10/18/2013 6:36:43 PM PDT by Hurricane
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

This lends validity to the theory that the 0bamacare website is MEANT not to work so everyone will be asking for a more streamline SINGLE PAYER system where all health care employees work DIRECTLY for the government.


They couldn’t get single payer through a Dem controlled house, but they will have no problem now after Americans have seen how government control of HC operates and a Repub controlled House?
Sorry I think your logic is a little flawed.

The Dems passed this with the thought that they would control the house forever and move to SP once everyone was hooked on this great program. They never expected HC to be so unpopular. They believed if they could just get it passed people would love it. Huge miscalculation and now they are beginning to panic. As for Obama, he had nothing to do with The ACA. This is the Dems wet dream, written years ago and stuffed in someone’s drawer waiting for the chance to unleash it. Obama was nothing more than Reid and Pelosi’s house nigger, same roll he plays in most of the Dems agenda


33 posted on 10/18/2013 6:49:34 PM PDT by Joshua (destined to fail,and)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cruella is learning that success has many fathers and failure is a stillborn orphan.


34 posted on 10/18/2013 6:54:32 PM PDT by bigtoona
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To: informavoracious

You hit the nail on the head. Tax time is when the low information crowd will rise from the dead.


35 posted on 10/18/2013 7:12:25 PM PDT by redfreedom (Republicans = The faux conservative wing of the democrat party.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

what’s the O/U for Kathleen losing her job?

my guess, Jan 30


36 posted on 10/18/2013 7:51:09 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: Ann Archy

She is evil and it shows in her face. Obama seems to attract real evil.

Jarrett is another.


37 posted on 10/18/2013 9:48:35 PM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sebelius needs to be told the story about Vince Foster then go into hiding.


38 posted on 10/18/2013 10:06:34 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Joshua
@33:

I heard from a true, actual communist agitator that obamacare is actually a republican plan. Basically our complaints are based on our own plan.

He telegraphed the next play, obviously blame the republicans and promote the true democrat solution: single payer as introduced by president Hillary.

These people believe this. It was truly amazing to witness the frightening departure from reality.

39 posted on 10/19/2013 6:34:35 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone posted this on my Facebook wall:

“Missed watching the Cards tonight to see a very rocking sold out Bonnie Raitt concert. It was great to see ...., .... and some other old and new friends. Extra added bonus was sitting four seats away from Kathleen Sebelius.”


40 posted on 10/19/2013 6:40:41 AM PDT by Walmartian (I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
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