The News and Observer Discredits Themselves Over Kathleen Sebelius

I thought the editors at the Charlotte Observer were pathetic political hacks, the News and Observer is giving those Obama sycophants a run for their money.  Here is an excerpt from one of their ridiculous editorials entitled; Republicans discredit themselves over health care reform:

As governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius was respected by her peers around the country for managing the state budget in a no-nonsense way and maintaining worthwhile programs. She has been in politics for over 25 years, and from the state house in Kansas to insurance commissioner to governor, she has proven herself a capable administrator.

Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts knows all that and in fact has been a family friend of Sebelius for some time. So it was a particularly shameful moment in Sebelius’ appearance before the Senate Finance Committee this week when Roberts called for her to resign. But he knows he has a re-election challenger from the right-wing of his Republican Party, a tea partyer, who’ll blister him if he doesn’t join the ridiculous, exaggerated assault on health care reform.

Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, long one of the more sanctimonious voices in the Senate, is running Roberts a close second in the embarrassment sweepstakes, as he at one point said to Sebelius, “We’re not in it just to give you a rough time. We’re in it to try and hopefully get it right.” That’s preposterous.

Kathleen Sebelius is a respected and capable administrator?  Her tenure as governor of Kansas is marred with failed programs.  Here is an excerpt from The Daily Caller:

 Obama administration Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ failure at designing websites to provide government services began during her term as governor of Kansas, long before the Obamacare website debacle, Kansas political insiders told The Daily Caller.

Sebelius oversaw numerous costly and disastrous government website projects during her six-year governorship (2003-2009), including a failed update of the Department of Labor’s program to provide unemployment pay and other services and similar updates pertaining to the Department of Administration and the state’s Department of MotorVehicles (DMV) services.

The Department of Labor’s overhaul of its computer programs was a notable boondoggle, according to 14-year former Kansas state senator and former state Labor Secretary Karin Brownlee.

“In the Kansas Senate, I chaired the Commerce committee. We had oversight over the Department of Labor. For years, we watched as the Department of Labor under Sebelius worked on that computer program. After seven years and $50 million, something should work,” Brownlee told TheDC.

“In Kansas if you have a 40 or 50 million dollar project, that’s a lot of money,” Brownlee said, noting that the Labor Department project was funded by federal money while other Sebelius website projects sucked up state taxpayer dollars. “They started and stopped that project with at least 3 different major contractors.”

When Brownlee was appointed to head the state’s Department of Labor under new Republican governor Sam Brownback in 2011, she was tasked with cleaning up Sebelius’ technical mess

The Senate republicans have legitimate concerns about this Obamacare fiasco.  The only ones who have discredit themselves are the editors at the New and Observer.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/23/lawmakers-sebelius-failed-at-government-website-projects-prior-to-serving-in-obama-administration/#ixzz2k6iOJE5L

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