Sebelius' confirmation on day 99 proves the administration is a bust

Sebelius is thrust into swine flu crisis
Brendan Smialowski / Bloomberg News
Kathleen Sebelius won Senate confirmation as Health and Human Services secretary.
Within hours after winning Senate confirmation as Health and Human Services secretary, the former Kansas governor gets to work leading the response to the global health emergency.
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Although the lame stream media was rabidly adamant about getting to the "truth" about President Bush firing 5 AG's (which was well within his purview) they have been equally strenuous in hiding information about the current administration. Such as the dozens of openings throughout the government because Obama, unlike Bush, discharged every appointed position in the administration on Day 1. Obama had excellent counsel on why it is a good idea to keep certain, non cabinet level appointees around or at least ask them to stay until replaced... none other than Bill Clinton, whose wife was one of the first appointments to BHO's cabinet, ham stringed his government by doing the exact same thing.

Just as Geithner was left to handle the monetary and financial crises alone and without any competent high level positions reporting to him to take off the burden of the escessive workload, Sebelius is left to do the same as HHS Secretary. Of course with one glaring difference, Geithner spent his entire career in the monetary and financial industries... Sebelius has as her sole qualification being a Democrat Obama sycophant. Certainly her aggressive pro-abortion stance made her questionable as the person in charge of children's health in the country. And her proven inability to manage as witnessed by her routing the treasury of the State of Kansas, as well as her tenuous understanding of the constitution in telling the citizens of Kansas she didn't want to return their money she seized from them in a timely fashion, made her questionable for any position in government.

But just as the approval of Timmay Geithner was "essential" to the recovery of the economy was a lie, so was the rush to confirm Sebelius. And just like Geithner, Sebelius' approval was rushed through because "she" had to manage the manufactured swine flu crisis. Even though she was the administration's second pick for the job and has provided no credible evidence of possessing knowledge of preventing pandemic viruses from becoming global epidemics, she was approved with barely a word questioning her ability to fulfill her duties. And just like Geithner she is walking into a job where not a single appointed position reporting to her has been filled.

Prior to 1.20.09 Obama got credit for the best transition of a President "evah". As the financial crisis loomed there were reports from England and Europe that their financial ministers had no one to talk to in planning a global response to the matter as Geithner was alone at Treasury. During the height of that crisis the G-20 met and at that point there were 17 vacancies at Treasury.

Today when Sebelius officially joins the cabinet she will have 20 vacant positions in her department.

Not only was the transition a bust, but the first 100 days has passed and the government is still incapable of operating fully.

And we still have this swine flu "crisis" to deal with. To date a confirmed 64 US cases have been confirmed and 150 worldwide have died. To put this in perspective, every week 800 deaths in the US are confirmed to be from seasonal influenza... that is EVERY WEEK!!! Year to date about 13,000 people have died from the flu and the estimate is that the 2009 death toll from the flu will be 36,000 dead in America.

And yet we had to have Sebelius, a 2nd string, marginal appointment at best, to handle a "crisis", for which she has no credible experience, because 150 Mexicans in a farming village without a hospital, or even a full time doctor, died.

So to sum things up:

1. Sebelius is incompetent and her appointment was rushed through using terror tactics,
   
2. Obama's transition was a failure as he failed to get people lined up for key positions in his administration,
   
3. The first 100 days was a bust because after purging all appointed positions he left the government unable to function and it still can't,
   
4. The swine flu "crisis", like global warming, is all BS (bad science) and is being used to control people via terror.