A few days ago, I was having a drink with a friend and we ended up talking about healthcare (don’t you wish you were there for that fun, huh?). I said, “well, she should have been fired long ago.” Not claiming any kind of inside info that brought about he resignation yesterday, it felt so obvious — and, yet, the defense of her tenure on the part of ACA supporters is really dumb.

The defense boils down to: hey, millions signed up to the health care scheme so it’s been a smashing success.

The problem is the perception, whether you like it or not, was that the sign-ups happened in spite of it all. It’s still boggles the mind that the secretary, who was overseeing what is viewed as perhaps the most important, defining piece of domestic policy for the president, could not bother to make sure that the website would work right…a website that failed because it could not handle the huge traffic coming its way…huge traffic you would think she should have anticipated because that was the point.

Hello?