. . . will grow a little more problematic tomorrow with the publication of this column by her archbishop, Joseph Naumann of Kansas City.

The archbishop’s bottom line is up top:

Normally, it would be a source of joy and pride to have a Catholic from Kansas named by the President to an important Cabinet Post. Unfortunately, I experience neither with President Obama’s selection of Governor Kathleen Sebelius as his choice to serve as the Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Obama seems set on squandering an historic opportunity to end the awful polarization of the country by signing up all the left-fringe folk he can find. You’d think it might have been worth the trouble to look for moderating policies and appointments on these kinds of issues, but then he’d have lost the late-term abortion vote, both of them.

Today in Kansas, Sebelius will be under fire for doing a little under-the-table deal to fund a social-support program represented by the chairman of the state Democratic party and his law partner, some guy she appointed last month to the state’s risible supreme court, to which justices are appointed without any public process. The deal came at the expense of other equally worthy programs and was worth $700K, which is real money outside the Beltway. She’ll also be taking a few slaps for trying to defund a program that supports pregnant women in order to keep intact funding for Planned Parenthood, one of the area’s largest abortion providers. The state budget she just submitted could win a Hugo. Or a Yugo. Anyway, Washington needs her because Kansas probably can’t take much more of her.