Posted on 05/29/2014 10:23:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Seven vulnerable Democrats are now calling for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki’s resignation after a preliminary Inspector General’s report confirmed allegations of a scandal in the agency.
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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 ...
mm mm mm. How that made my blood boil, to listen to that drivel.
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?
I heard one commentator say Obama might want him to stay as long as possible, so he is made the scapegoat instead of Obama. It does seem rare that Obama fires anyone, except for isolated cases.
“he may well have been under the impression that things were going swimmingly” No Commanding Officer could ever use that as an excuse. I can just imagine giving my CO that rap.
With such well known issues, did he ever make unannounced inspections at hospitals? Were there any skip-level meetings with the worker-bees?
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.
Yes indeed.
We have one here in NC, Sen. Kay Hagan. She has come out for the firing of Shinseki. Trying to look like she really cares.
A huge Obamacare supporter she was/is.
Has her hand in Zer0's pants.
Total fraud.
Howzabout this?
Tell Shinseki, “No, we’re not going to force you to quit! We’re going to force you to stay right there and go after your underlings who caused such pain to our nation’s vets!
“And we’re going to bring your sorry @zz before the House committee every f*****g week and demand an accounting of everything you’ve done to kick @zz and take names!
“And we’ll keep up the pressure until you announce your own f*****g resignation!
Yepper! The demodummies are shaking in their boots knowing that their cushy jobs will be gone if something isn’t done about the VA scandal. Too bad it took this scandal to bring them to attention, there are sooooooo many more to choose from.
Yepper! The demodummies are shaking in their boots knowing that their cushy jobs will be gone if something isn’t done about the VA scandal. Too bad it took this scandal to bring them to attention, there are sooooooo many more to choose from.
Now Shinseki has fired the Phoenix office leaders. This is WAY bigger than just Phoenix.
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