Kathleen Sebelius resigning

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration, CBS News has confirmed. The move comes just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama's health care law. Website failures marred the opening weeks of the six-month enrollment period, but the administration rebounded strongly by enrolling more than 7 million people in health insurance plans. Sebelius' resignation could set the stage for a contentious election-year confirmation hearing for whomever Obama nominates to replace her. Sebelius has served as HHS secretary since the start of the Obama administration.

Many had asked, of course, why Sebelius wasn't fired given the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov. Obama is obviously no management genius, so maybe he thought he needed to keep the incompetent leader in place until her own incompetence had somehow been straightened out. In fairness to Sebelius, ObamaCare would have been a disaster even if its implementation had been flawless, because ObamaCare is itself a flaw. But HHS had responsibility for the building of HealthCare.gov, and it's astonishing that more than $600 million was spent and that's what they got for it. I suppose there will be a fair amount of crowing among conservatives today, but there's really nothing to celebrate. It's not as if Obama will nominate anyone who doesn't support his agenda just as much as Sebelius did. Deck chairs. Titanic. That's all this is.