printAn MSNBC reporter is confident that Kathleen “Sebelius survived [the] Obamacare grilling” on Capitol Hill. But then the Obama lickspittles at the network also believe that “the insurance companies and not the law” are to blame for the loss of medical coverage by a million Americans, so far.
There will be foolish Americans aplenty (I’ve heard from a number of them) who’ll blame insurers for complying with Obama’s law and canceling policies that no longer comply with that law. (The idea that insurers would subject themselves to a massive, costly reorganization for no reason is insanely stupid, the very definition of a leftist ideologue.)
However, it would appear that the Health and Human Services Secretary skirted her deserved humiliation thanks to the Stupid Party.
When the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank gets something right it is usually by accident. Today is one of those accidents. Milbank has a point when he writes this:
Like the Scarecrow, whoever came up with House Republicans’ plan to deal with Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday didn’t have a brain.
It was their big chance to flambé the secretary of Health and Human Services and the person who has overseen the disastrous launch of Obamacare. Instead, they wound up casting her as Judy Garland’s Dorothy.
“In ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ there is a great line,” Barton, one of the first Republican questioners, informed Sebelius, a former two-term governor of Kansas. “Dorothy at some point in the movie turns to her little dog, Toto, and says, ‘Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore.’ Well, Madam Secretary, while you’re from Kansas, we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
Thus began several references, each more painful than the last, to Oz, Kansas, following the yellow brick road, pulling back the curtain, the wonderful things the Wizard does — and, for good measure, something about Chicken Little, although he did not appear in the 1939 classic.
GOPer on campus:
