HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius announced her resignation; Obama announced her replacement, thus eliminating Sibelius as the already bruised defender. So what do we hear from Repubs about this?
It's almost unbelievable. And it's utterly pathetic. Rep. Marsha Blackburn said on "Face the Nation:
"They know they've got a math problem with Obamacare and the numbers are not going to work out so that the program is actuarially sound. . . .They're going to have to have somebody to kind of spin the numbers and this is something ... I think they're expecting her to be able to do [it]. . . "Get it? Who better than the budget director to come in and cook the books and manage this numbers fraud than their budget director? That's all they've got ???? No substantive argument ?? Just "nyah, nyah, nyah . . . they're just making it all up."
Who is this Sylvia Matthews Burwell that Obama has nominated? Originally from West Virginia, she graduated from Harvard, following which she earned a second bachelor's degree in philosophy, economics and politics from Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She has been CEO and Executive Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, President of the Walmart Foundation, Assistant Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, and Staff Director of the National Economic Council. Just one year ago, the U. S. Senate approved her nomination to head the White House Office of Management and Budget by 96 to 0.
You know, that's going pretty high up in the food chain of government and non-profit service just to get someone to cook the books on the ACA. How pathetic that they have no valid argument and so have to stoop so low.
Instead of getting outraged, maybe we could see it for what it is:
a sign of Republican's bankruptcy of ideas and dearth of policy alternatives. So all they can do is make noise and try to buy whatever votes they aren't able to suppress.
Ralph
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