It is an old ‘Rat trick. They pretend to be Americans long enough to be re elected. Then they go right back to voting straight ‘Rat party lines.
They should be calling for the resignation of Shinseki’s BOSS. Barack Hussein Obama.
Shinseki is toast - woulda been gone today, but I bet they are waiting for the Friday evening news dump ...
The vulnerable DEMs must have told Obama that Shinseki has to go - otherwise, they have one more thing to deal with in the mid-terms ...
Jim, if Shinseki’s gone the scandal disappears. They’ll appoint a new fall guy and the media will forget about the mess. It’s to conservatives’ advantage to keep him in place as long as possible to make daily headlines prior to the Fall elections.
This may sound radical, but Shinseki could in fact be innocent. That statement has no bearing on his competence. If he is the central authority to whom a lot of regional incompetents/frauds report, he may well have been under the impression that things were going swimmingly out there in the boonies.
I also agree with the idea that firing him as a piece of theater accomplishes less than nothing.
How many sinking ships is Obama going to sink before he is declared our enemy?
May God protect this great nation from our elected enemies!
Firing this guy does nothing but pretend they’re doing something. Congress is just as much to blame as anyone for not being on top of this. They could have visited a few VA Hospitals every now and then and ask some old vets sitting around if they’re receiving decent treatment. Now they’re in a CYA mode just like the VA bureaucrats.
The problem is definitely fake waiting lists and saying people were treated when they weren’t. But the bigger problem is WHY couldn’t these veterans be treated? Why were people having to lie about it?
What may help is making it so Shinseki can fire people - he cannot right now. His hands have been duct-taped.
Conservatives seem to think that with the right people the socialism that it the VA could work. It’s not about people it is the system.
He seems to feel that Shinseki should stay. That he is being made the scapegoat while the VA system will be allowed to exist as it is - a “jobs program” for politicians to reward their loyal minions.
I've been to DC several times to speak with my representatives in Congress. And each time part of my discussion has been the bloated top layers in the VA system.
If Shinseki is to stay, he needs to start firing those bureaucrats at the top who have collected bonuses for keeping two sets of books.
Now Shinseki has fired the Phoenix office leaders. This is WAY bigger than just Phoenix.