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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Why Obama DID NOT Fire Sebelius

Kathleen Sebelius is Resigning Because Obamacare has Won (Ezra Klein) from Vox
"The demands that Sebelius to step down — or be fired — were as deafening inside the building as outside of it. But President Obama refused. As National Journal's Major Garrett reported, Obama believes that "scaring people with a ceremonial firing deepens fear, turns allies against one another, makes them risk-averse, and saps productivity." Moreover, there was too much to be done to fire one of the few people who knew how to finish the job. Sebelius would stay. The White House wouldn't panic in ways that made it harder to save the law. The evidence has piled up in recent weeks that the strategy worked."

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