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According to the AP, Kansas Gov. Kalthleen Sebelius has been confirmed to serve as the nation’s health and human services secretary.

The 65-31 vote came after Democrats urged quick action so that Sebelius could get to work leading the federal response to the flu outbreak. Sixty votes in the 100-seat Senate were necessary for approval.

Republican opponents cited Sebelius’ pro-abortion stances and raised concerns about whether Obama administration plans to overhaul the nation’s health system would lead to rationing of care.

Sebelius was the final Obama Cabinet pick awaiting confirmation.

What did Rahm Emanuel say again? Never let a serious crisis go to waste…

In preparation for her confirmation hearings, Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius hired an accountant to scrub her taxes.  The paid accountant discovered “errors” over three years of tax returns requiring $8,000 in back taxes.

It may not be on par with Tim “Turbo Tax” Geithner who missed paying $35,000 in self-employment taxes or come close to Tom Daschle who failed to pay $140,000 in taxes and interest.  But come on!  Kathleen Sebelius is the governor of Kansas and her husband is federal magistrate judge so they can afford to hire a decent tax accountant right?  Maybe that would defeat the purpose… I dunno.

However seeing as how Republicans in the Kansas legislature had to inform Governor Sebelius that she would be breaking state laws by borrowing money from healthy state funds it couldn’t repay to cover shortages in other accounts, maybe her personal tax problems were “innocent errors” after all…