director sylvia maxwell burwell to replace her. from house majority leader eric cantor i thank secretary sebelius for her service. she had an impossible task. nobody can make obamacare work. from government shutdown hatcher and promoter ted cruz, we don t need resignations. we need full repeal from rnc chairman priebus, sebelius saw a rollout of obamacare. anyone can see there are more problems on the way. secretary sebelius herself tweeted as of this week 400,000 more americans signed up for coverage. if you re in line, you can still get covered. joining me is dr. patel, now fellow at the brookings institution. the timing of this in some ways makes sense and in some ways seems strange. it was never going to make sense for sebelius to walk away until they got through open enrollment, not when she was being criticized. at the same time this sets up a
late breaking news, a high profile resignation this evening in the obama administration. after five years at the helm of health and human services including a truly rough health care website rollout that had republicans calling for her head, hhs secretary kathleen sebelius will resign. sebelius leaves a job that managed to make her almost as polarizing as the president himself. she was tasked with overseeing one of the most significant pieces of social legislation in 50 years, a task which as of a week ago looked like had been achieved if just barely. six months after the biggest unforced debacle in the entire obama era, are the health care exchange website 0 rollout. during her tenure sebelius became an absolute villain to the right, ultimately her legacy will be obamacare s legacy. according to the new york times president obama accepted sebelius resignation this week and tomorrow he will nominate office of management and budget director sylvia maxwell burwell to replace her. from
health and human services including a truly rough health care website rollout that had republicans calling for her head, hhs secretary kathleen sebelius will resign. sebelius leaves a job that managed to make her almost as polarizing as the president himself. she was tasked with overseeing one of the most significant pieces of social legislation in 50 years, a task which as of a week ago looked like had been achieved if just barely. six months after the biggest unforced debacle in the entire obama era, are the health care exchange website rollout. during her tenure sebelius became an absolute villain to the right, ultimately her legacy will be obamacare s legacy. according to the new york times president obama accepted sebelius resignation this week and tomorrow he will nominate office of management and budget director sylvia maxwell burwell to replace her. from house majority leader eric cantor i thank secretary sebelius for her service. she had an impossible task. nobody can make
country s top political figures continue to congregate in austin, texas, at the lyndon b. johnson presidential library to mark the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act. everyone from john lewis to haley barbour to george w. bush has gathered to commemorate the landmark legislation. the star attraction was, of course, the nation s first black president, barack obama. in a time when cynicism is too often passed off as wisdom, it s perhaps easy to conclude there are limits to change. that we are trapped by our own history. and politics is a fool s errand. and we d be better off if we rolled back big chunks of lbj s legacy. or at least if we don t put too much of our hope, invest too much of our hope in our government. i reject such thinking. the president took the podium to speak of the progress of civil rights in this country in a very specific moment of his presidency, a moment when race and progress is front and center in the national dialogue. we ve been of course ta
haley barbour to george w. bush has gathered to commemorate the landmark legislation. the star attraction was, of course, the nation s first black president, barack obama. in a time when cynicism is too often passed off as wisdom, it s perhaps easy to conclude there are limits to change. that we are trapped by our own history. and politics is a fool s errand. and we d be better off if we rolled back big chunks of lbj s legacy. or at least if we don t put too much of our hope, invest too much of our hope in our government. i reject such thinking. the president took the podium to speak of the progress of civil rights in this country in a very specific moment of his presidency, a moment when race and progress is front and center in the national dialogue. we ve been of course talking about the race from the obama era from the moment barack obama declared for his candidacy. that debate is getting louder and louder and louder, and over the last several weeks has positively expl