Kathleen Sebelius, one of the worst administrators in modern times, has resigned her post as head of HHS.

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<<< Sebelius,  one of the unhappiest looking women of all time,  announces her "retirement."

Many are not surprised,  after the "announcement" was made,  in the morning of Tuesday, April 1 (April Fools Day).  Obama had assembled his team of cheerleaders for his staged press conference.  For some reason,  Reid, Pelosi and,  most notably,  Kathleen Sebelius were not there, and this "victory" was as much theirs as Obama's.

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Update and correction:  Turns out Kathleen Sebelius WAS in the staged audience on April Fool's Day,  which makes matters worse for the retiring HHS secretary.  Obama makes the announcement, refuses to have Sebelius at his side AND does not bother to acknowledge her presence in the audience  . . . . .   as clear an example of just how self-serving and disloyal this man can be.

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And the rumors began.

Today,  nine days later, Sebelius is gone and the Administration is busy defending its numbers against the truth and its stated goals.

Of the "7.1" million "signed up and into "the private market" (as Obama calls it),  no numbers were available, from the Administration,  relating to the breakdown of that total.  Rand Institute tells us that the number of folks who are first time insured is less that one million people.  Of the remainder,  3 to 4 million are folks  replacing the insurance ObamaCare took from them,  and the other 2 to 3 million are enrollees into Medicare (which is NOT ObamaCare).

Before ObamaCare,  there were 48 million uninsured, or so we have been told.  After ObamaCare,  there are 47 million uninsured.

The Administration believed that the uninsured would come flocking to the Exchanges,  but that did not happen.  They believed America's youth would come flocking to the Exchanges,  but,  again, that did not happen.  They believed the healthy would come flocking,  for some ungawdly reason,  but THAT did not happen,  either.  So the roles are full of retired folks and those needing various decrees of subsidies (80% of the enrollees).  And the law is headed for more difficult times than before.

Understand the law is perpetually feckless,  as a piece of legislation,  not because of how it was/or has been administered,  but,  rather,  how it was written.

You know there is something systemically wrong,  when it takes a political party with no opposition,  a full year to write a "rough draft," and,  four years later,  open a website that is the laughing stock of anyone with commonsense.    And all this  is on Obama,  Reid and Pelosi; Sebelius is only a scapegoat.

Maybe she will start smiling again.  She has been through "administrative hell,"  and, now,  that period in her life is over.