The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Posted on 05/16/2014 4:03:49 PM PDT by kristinn
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said that Friday's resignation of Robert Petzel, a top Veterans Affairs official, was not a voluntary exit.
"There is no question that this is a termination of his job there before he was planning to go," McDonough told CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett for an interview to air on "Face the Nation" this Sunday.
Petzel, the undersecretary for health care at the VA, handed in his resignation to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki Friday. He had already announced his intention to retire this year and President Obama earlier this month announced he was nominating Jeffrey A. Murawsky to replace Petzel.
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Garrett pressed McDonough as to the circumstances behind Petzel's resignation asking if it was because President Obama's unhappy.
"You know you heard what Secretary Shinseki said yesterday which is that he's mad as hell and the president is madder than hell and I've got the scars to prove it given briefings that I've given the president and the conversations that he and [Shinseki] and I have had on these matters," McDonough said. "So, is one step like this one as important as it was sufficient? We'll continue to work - look at that Major, but at the same time that we're looking at accountability we want to continue to perform to provide our veterans the services that they have earned."
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Shinseki has support from Obama, the only one that counts. It certainly has served Eric Holder well.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Okay, well as long as everyone involved is “mad” that makes it alright.
Carry on.
Seems a bizarre statement?
They're already calling it "sufficient" ?
obama’s va secretary won’ t resign though. none of them have the nads to fall on the sword for their obvious fuk-ups.
Despite the high dudgeon and all of the
“Is this a dagger I see before me?”
histrionics of all the king’s men,
even the Ministry of Truth couldn’t hide the fact that ....
“He had already announced his intention to retire this year”.
So big whoop.
They pulled this same happy crappy over at the IRS: a clueless underling about to retire thrown under the bus, albeit with unspecified remuneration.
We want ... the king to resign.
He’s evil.
So, they “fire” the one who is eligible for government retirement.
High fives for a proble government employee solution.
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
0bama is madder than Shinseki. Proves he cares. </sarc>
Congress need to pass laws giving Shinseki the authority to fire Federal workers. Union or no union.
If the older ObamaVAcare is crumbling, then how long will it take for this new and improved Obamacare to crumble?
If these two Federal Medical Programs were to be combined, say on Christmas Eve this year, would the surviving name be : “OBAMA VERY AWFUL CARE?”
That this pos could be that obtuse to use that analogy when referring to an issue where real men with actual scars, limbs blown off, horrifically burned...is beyond comprehension...but par for the course for this administration.
Are you referring to the one that would likely show that the guy was merely following orders of those above him????
No, the one where there wasn’t a smidgen of evidence
The VA has created a system of perverse incentives... No matter how many people are publicly ‘fired’ or humiliated, the system will treat vets like shit.
I would generally support privatizing.
I’m no expert on VA care, but I believe in private practice.
My dad would not go to a VA hospital and he was always better off, as far as he said and we could tell.
A voucher or credit system seems workable to me. They might even be able to sell off some of the buildings.
Best wishes!
Bump since Trump just fired his, too...
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