The One is turning out to be the stupidest smart guy ever.
He should have stayed in academia, where his brand of brilliance couldn’t do any harm.
Barack is dumber than a bush.
March 17, 2009 Contact: Wendy Knox 202.225.6216 ]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE or Sam Sackett 316.262.8992
Tiahrt Calls on President to Withdraw VA Plan
Obama Administration proposal would add burdens on veterans
WASHINGTON—U.S. Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-Goddard) today sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to publicly withdraw his Administration’s plan for the Veterans Administration to bill a veteran’s personal insurance company for certain healthcare costs associated with a service-related disability. The White House has proposed the plan as part of its fiscal year 2010 VA budget, but Tiahrt and veterans groups are calling the plan unacceptable and are working to defeat it.
Tiahrt wrote that the White House proposal would “add additional burdens on our veterans.” The letter goes on to say, “Providing billion dollar bailouts for corporations one week and increasing burdens for our veterans another week is not a message we should be sending our brave men and women who have served in harm’s way on behalf of our nation.”
The following is the full text of the letter:
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
March 17, 2009
Dear Mr. President:
It has come to my attention this week that your Administration has proposed a policy change that would require the Veterans Administration to bill a veteran’s personal insurance company for certain healthcare costs associated with a service-related disability. I am writing to voice my vehement opposition to any such proposal that shifts the burden from the VA to veterans and their insurance providers.
It is the duty and responsibility of the VA to care for the men and women who have served our country and who have sustained injuries from combat or other related military service. I believe it is entirely inappropriate to consider such a proposal, and I ask that you publicly withdraw this plan that would add additional burdens on our veterans.
Should your Administration continue advocating a plan that would cause increased hardships for veterans, I will introduce legislation and work with my colleagues in the House and Senate to defeat any such proposal.
Within the last few weeks you have signed into law a massive spending increase for federal government programs – the largest annual discretionary spending increase since the Carter Administration – and you have supported sending hundreds of billions of borrowed taxpayer dollars to failing corporations.
Providing billion dollar bailouts for corporations one week and increasing burdens for our veterans another week is not a message we should be sending our brave men and women who have served in harm’s way on behalf of our nation.
Thank you for your quick and responsive attention to this important issue on behalf of our nation’s veterans. I look forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Todd Tiahrt
Member of Congress
The “best and brightest” are looking like the worst and dumbest...
Watch for the next tactic... Obambi will no longer talk about doing it, but will still do it.
He knows not the truth - The truth is not in him.
The “best and brightest” are the worst and dumbest...
NBC News with David Gregory just aired this.
Complete with interviews of wounded and angry veterans.
And others who were against it.
Shinseki was against it.
Patty Murray has been the Congressional voice of opposition-DOA , she called it last week.
An anti war Iraq veteran was against it.
Only one person was for it-Barack Obama.
NBC noted the anger about this may be long standing.
I agree with others, Barry may have “ retreated “ as NBC described it,
but, he’ll find a way.
As he obviously despises the military.
This was a ruse to see who the opposition players are to build a strategy to either destroy them or neutralize them when this does get pushed though.
The Dems are mostly antimilitary. This is probably designed to discourage enlistment in our Armed Forces.
This is one way he gets his kicks - sticking it to the military. (Other ways include sticking it to the capitalist investor class, to those “greedy, imperialist” Brits, to American allies such as the Israelis, the Poles, the Czechs, the Georgians, etc.)
He probably figures if the political backlash gets too hot, he can always backtrack. But he’ll be sure to get his jollies in the meantime.