The Sphinx from Kansas should retire

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Wednesday October 09, 2013 · 5:12 PM PDT

2013/10/09 · 17:12

By that I mean the Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius.

I know people here are fixated on the government shutdown and implosion of the Republicans. But before we get carried away with schadenfreude, we should take a long hard look at our incredibly inept roll-out of the ACA exchanges.

Yes, glitches happen, but some of these glitches are because of sheer ineptness. But what really pisses me off is how the HHS is falling behind in marketing these exchanges to healthy young people whose enrollment is crucial for the survival of the plan.

I lay the blame of this entirely on Kathleen Sebelius. Either she does not understand the law that she is in charge of promoting, or she is so uncomfortable in such a visible role that she is flubbing the message. Either way her ineptitude is yielding ground to conservative misinformation about these exchanges.

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Tuesday March 19, 2013 · 2:32 PM PDT

2013/03/19 · 14:32

Seems like after every few months we have a new massacre, which is followed by usual howls of outrage and then nothing happens. So once again, as expected, nothing has happened, nothing will happen. See y'all after the next massacre.

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Tuesday August 16, 2011 · 10:27 AM PDT

2011/08/16 · 10:27

On his Sunday show, Fareed Zakaria, one of the few Sunday talking heads that I greatly admire, chastised the liberal activists for their criticism of Obama, asking them to "grow up" instead.

With the ongoing flame wars on Dailykos, with some dyed-in-the-wool Obama supporters souring on the President, I thought I would deconstruct his criticism, offer alternate perspectives and also my opinion.

Below the fold is the full transcript of his criticism.

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Sunday August 07, 2011 · 8:57 AM PDT

2011/08/07 · 08:57

In December last year, just after the WH capitulated on the Bush tax cuts, the President and Marc Ambinder had an interesting Q & A during which the President said this:

I’ll take John Boehner at his word — that nobody, Democrat or Republican, is willing to see the full faith and credit of the United States government collapse

This one line made me think of this famous fable:

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the
scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The
frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion
says, "Because if I do, I will die too."
The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream,
the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of
paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown,
but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

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Sunday July 24, 2011 · 11:53 AM PDT

2011/07/24 · 11:53

This diary is related to Bobswern's diary on the rec list. I think the Elizabeth Drew's column is a must read for everyone, especially since there is the prevalent meme that all his deals were actually an effort to show how intransigent the GOP really is. Truthfully, this was no 11 dimension chess, this was bullet dodged, it was a whew moment.

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Thursday November 04, 2010 · 4:37 PM PDT

2010/11/04 · 16:37

I posted two comments in the past couple of days and some people asked me to post them as a diary. So here it is.

Today Mitch McConnell made it clear that the intentions of the Republican party had no interest in Obama's olive branch. Their intentions were known even before the President was sworn in, when Judd Gregg sent out the much publicized memo urging the minority senators do get familiar with Senate rules, so that they can grind the Senate proceeding to a stop. In face of such destructive nihilism, the continuous pursuit of bipartisanship by this President seems not just weak, but silly. That was the central thesis of Cenk Uygur's diary yesterday. Many people did not like it, but let's just step back and examine what happened over the past two years.

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Wednesday March 05, 2008 · 10:05 PM PST

2008/03/05 · 22:05

Yes this site is going bat-shit insane with unfounded allegations of racism. An unsubstantiated diary was recommended to the top and was picked up by his highness Markos himself and pushed to the front page accusing Senator Clinton of racism. Guess what it was all a BIG LIE!!

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Saturday February 09, 2008 · 6:15 PM PST

2008/02/09 · 18:15

In the past 24 hours I have seen 20 diaries on the despicable comments made by David Shuster and vast majority by Obama supporters claiming that the response is way out of proportion, that Shuster has done nothing worng and that Hillary was using the controversy for political purposes. So let's see what really went down.

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Thursday January 31, 2008 · 4:16 PM PST

2008/01/31 · 16:16

Remember Iowa? It seemed like another time now. Remember the furor that was caused by emails being sent by two HRC staffers. They were not authors of the email but had forwarded them. People yelled their heads off, they accused HRC of racism even after the two staffers (actually precinct staff and not campaign staff) were fired. Then there was Shaheen and his moronical statements even he was fired but still people were not happy. The final message was HRC is race-baiting and she is this horrible person....the evil witch of the east.

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Thursday January 24, 2008 · 8:25 AM PST

2008/01/24 · 08:25

If this is the new face of hope and unity then I guess I will stick with what I know.

Poll

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This behavior shows that Barack Obama is

50 votes Vote Now!

This behavior shows that Barack Obama is

puerile

2 votes

churlish

0 votes

egotistical

6 votes

a sore loser

4 votes

all of the above

38 votes

[updated] Nevada voters have their say

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Saturday January 19, 2008 · 4:49 PM PST

2008/01/19 · 16:49

In recent days the Obama campaign did the following:

tacitly endorse a race-baiting ad

did not condemn voter intimidation by a union

start taking benefits from a PAC

Yet all of the above could not save them from a defeat. Why? Because end of the day the voters had their say.

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Saturday January 12, 2008 · 3:24 PM PST

2008/01/12 · 15:24

Is the Obama campaign trying to propagate the racial narrative to their benefit?

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