Former Bush press secretary and current Fox News host Dana Perino
has some good advice
for House Republicans planning on questioning beleaguered Health and
Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week: don’t be jerks.
That’s the short version of a piece she ran on the Fox News website
today and members of the Energy and Commerce Committee should take her
five tips to heart when Sebelius comes before them on Wednesday. But the
hearing is more than just an opportunity for the much-reviled House GOP
to prove they can appear in public without making fools of themselves.
After
Saturday Night Live’s deft satire of
Sebelius this past weekend, the secretary has already been elevated
from an obscure former Kansas governor to a national laughing-stock.
What Republicans need to do now is not only, as Perino points out, avoid
making her look sympathetic but to start focusing on how this happened
as well as the major ObamaCare problems that go far beyond a
dysfunctional website.
As John Steele Gordon previously noted, the Daily Caller’s story
published last week
about the identity of the company that was given the contract to build
Healthcare.gov raises tantalizing questions about whether this was just
another sweetheart deal to an Obama contributor, not to mention the
possible ties of one of its chief officers to the first lady. Congress
should not ignore these leads, but neither should they be overplayed in a
high-handed manner.
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