Posted on 04/26/2018 4:56:07 AM PDT by GIdget2004
President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs has withdrawn his nomination amid allegations of workplace misconduct and prescription mispractice.
The withdrawal of Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson followed a decision by the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee to indefinitely postpone his confirmation hearing.
Staffers on the committee were looking into charges against Jackson of creating a "hostile work environment" including "excessive drinking on the job [and] improperly dispensing meds.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
All I have to do is see them and I seethe.
Wow. This man had 4 security clearances and these charges are false yet you, from your site on Mount Olympus, say that POTUS is a poor judge of character. Where is the appointee that cannot be lied about & maligned?
And if they are lies? There was apparently an issue with some other officer who was found to be at fault and flung accusations along the way. I take none of the accusations from the left at face value.
I don’t get it-—
This man was Doctor to Obama-Bush- Clinton & now Trump. He passed numerous background checks in the past & suddenly, he is a monster-—for items in his past?
This personal ambushing has to stop.
That makes logical sense but it hasn’t worked well at all.
I think a bureaucrat is the wrong pick for the job. There is something about bureaucrats that allows them to make small improvement gestures but they never really attack the rot or change the status quo.
One can have extensive experience managing a large organization without being a bureaucrat. The key is managing large organizations.
MY mother was a stone alcoholic. She could suck on beer all day long & appear to have ‘only one beer’-—when Schlitz came in 16 oz cans.
The problem was that she drank all the time. She could not put it down.
At her funeral, the little blue haired ladies she worked with kept asking ‘what did she die of”? I said Acute Alcoholism. They all said -—But, my dear, your mother didn’t drink.
I told them—one and all—”YOU NEVER SAW HER SOBER”. She always had a level of buzz on. ALWAYS.
“Isn’t drinking on the job bad enough?”
Nope. That’s nannystate crap right there.
I’ve worked in a number of places where drinking is allowed, just not getting drunk.
I’m sitting in the cardiologist’s waiting room right now. I’ve got a great cardiologist. He’s trying to help me get treatment for a cough I’ve had since November. My PC has ignored me.
After appointments I’m going to Fee Basis trying to get reimbursed for pharmacy bills from January. I’ve given them everything they asked for and now haven’t heard a thing. A bunch of lazy Amish. Which, by the way, is 95% of the employees.
The VA needs to be broken up into about 10 separate independent divisions.
Nice!
Allow the Veterans to use private health services in those states as a priority. We would be better with a much smaller VA providing services where an area is underserved by private sector care or for specialized services related to military service injuries.
I don’t know. I think the key is understanding the medical side and the veteran’s needs.
You can are going to have department heads etc. Delegation is good. It’s the drive and the vision that is the essential steps. A supply chain consultant and a person who was committed to delivering the right kind of care would be head & neck above someone who was satisfied managing a large organization. They are different types of people. After there is a new structure and the weeding has been done a competent manager with some Military experience would be sufficient.
I will defer to you on experience dealing with the VA. The question is, what in Admiral Jackson's background indicates he's capable of doing the job you describe? What you need is someone with experience planning and implementing a major restructuring of a large organization that resulted in better performance once the restructuring was done. Admiral Jackson, while an excellent physician, doesn't have any experience in running a large organization much less remaking it into a more efficient service provider.
Had Admiral Jackson been confirmed then it's highly likely he would have been a failure. And the VA would be no better off.
It takes a bit of time when there's over 10,000 of them and only 3 or 4 of him.
Thomas Edison said vision without execution is hallucination. We don't know if Admiral Jackson has the vision needed, but it's highly unlikely that he has the ability to put his vision into action. This is not a "big picture" only job. It has to be hands on.
Don’t disagree about Jackson. But he should have been rejected on the grounds you describe.
But the VA is too big for anyone. You’ve got medical, disability claims, home mortgage guarantees, education. Plus you can’t fire anyone. The guy that just got fired said there were over 2,000 he wanted to fire but couldn’t.
Agreed. This ongoing character assassination has nothing to do with his overall lack of suitability for the post. Just a bad pick from the get-go.
But the VA is too big for anyone. You’ve got medical, disability claims, home mortgage guarantees, education. Plus you can’t fire anyone. The guy that just got fired said there were over 2,000 he wanted to fire but couldn’t.
Then it's really a situation that deserved more consideration on the nominee than the President gave it. No doubt Trump has learned from it and his next pick will be much better.
I really don’t think not allowing employees to drink on the job is nanny state. Please.
Absolute orchestrated SMEAR CAMPAIGN. I’m so angry and frustrated with this corrupt congress, FBI, DOJ and judiciary! Some of you may have read Louie Gohmert’s 48 page exposé on Bob Mueller, et al. But checking main conservative sites, I see it is being completely ignored. This report alone, should be enough to end the witch hunt, but not if it’s not being reported. Someone mentioned Levin talked about it a couple of weeks ago, but we watch FOX News all day long, and we’ve seen nothing about it. Today, I’ve been adding the link to it, to every comment I make on conservative websites. I know MSM won’t report it, but I am incredibly disappointed that most conservative sites are also refusing to report it. Pray without ceasing.
“I really don’t think not allowing employees to drink on the job is nanny state. Please.”
It is. You’ve been conditioned.
“It is. You’ve been conditioned.”
What about smoking on the job?
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