Just Asking....

Is Sen. John Cornyn in charge of making the decision concerning the next Health and Human Services Secretary? Isn't President Obama potentially giving away a Senate seat by appointing Sebelius? With the retirement of Sen. Sam Brownback, she's the strongest statewide Democratic candidate and would be favored to flip the seat, right? 

Put this into simpler terms:

 

Imagine you're the chief political strategist for the President.

 

You're presented with the following two options:

 

A -- Convince Sebelius to run for Senate. She'd flip the seat in Kansas. The Dems would pick up a Senate seat.

 

B -- Convince her to accept the nomination for HHS secretary because health care policy is more very important.

What is so interesting to me - and I mean this in a neutral way - is that the Rove White House would have chosen path A (right?), and the Obama White House might choose path B .. because party politics isn't everything. Of course, it's easier to be cavalier about the Senate seat when you're projected to get your 60 seat majority anyway...