A couple of resignations are in the air — one that's already happened, and one that's surely going to.
In the first case, you have a former Governor of Kansas who is packing it in over at HHS after signing up 7.5 million Americans for affordable healthcare coverage. That is nothing to sneeze at. Kathleen Sebelius may be "embattled," as the headlines so love to say — and yes, the ACA roll-out had its share of problems. But she has just presided over the biggest expansion of healthcare coverage since the 1960s, and she can leave with her head held high.
The other resignation, which will probably happen tomorrow at 8 or 9 PM (Friday night news dump, don'tcha know), will be from a Republican who self-identified as a Christian conservative and devoted family man, but who this week was exposed as a smooching, hopeless fraud. As the saying goes, kiss that guy goodbye.
We cats are as amused by the specter of Republicans turning on Vance McAllister as we are amazed that so few in the media have picked up on the "self-identified" part of his shtick. "He broke out the religious card and he's about the most non-religious person I know," said the wronged husband. Hmmm... So now hypocritical GOP Christians are hypocritical about being Christian in the first place? Our heads are spinning.
Kathleen Sebelius never pretended to be a computer geek. But Vance McAllister said he was holier than thou. For that, he gets the Donald Trump Mountebank Award of the Week. And we cats HISS.
(IMAGE: The New Yorker celebrates the ACA's success. Ain't it the truth?)
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