All of my life, people have called for the firing of cabinet members. And every year, I get more averse to this. I remember how we righties called for the scalp of George P. Shultz. I was so mad when he testified before the Iran-Contra committee. I thought he was aggrandizing himself at the expense of the president and the rest of the administration. Jack Kemp, when he campaigned for president in 1988, vowed to “fire George Shultz.” That got the right-wing audiences all fired up. It may not have occurred to anyone that the secretary of state wasn’t going to be around for the next president to fire: He would leave in January ’89, as a matter of course. Kemp was just tossing out red meat.

The truth is, Shultz was doing exactly what President Reagan wanted him to do (whether we liked it or not). And he was a superb SecState, it was clear after (clear to me, at least).

Which brings me to Kathleen Sebelius. You know, I don’t give a rip about Kathleen Sebelius (no offense to her or her family). Can hardly spell her name (because it differs from the spelling of the composer’s). All I know is that Barack Obama is president. And that Obamacare’s his baby: his program, his law, his “fundamental transformation.” The buck stops with him.

Actually, it stops with the American people, who elected him to office twice. Here, the people rule. Kathleen Sebelius is not our problem. Obama and the culture — which is reflected in elections — are the problem.