It's a Good Thing That Obama Reads the Paper Because Otherwise He'd Have No Idea What His...

Reason ^ | May 19, 2014 | Nick Gillespie

[neverdem]

It's a Good Thing That Obama Reads the Paper Because Otherwise He'd Have No Idea What His Administration is Doing

It's a Good Thing That Obama Reads the Paper Because Otherwise He'd Have No Idea What His Administration is Doing

Nick Gillespie|May. 19, 2014 5:59 pm

So it turns out that President Obama—that whip-smart guy who is so super-curious about everything (unlike that quitter-snowbilly former Gov. Sarah Palin amirite?)—apparently had no idea that his administration was letting veterans croak while on waiting lists for care at Veterans Affairs (V.A.) facilities. At the very least, his people knew about the waiting-list problems, including inaccurate reporting on treatment times, back in 2008.

You remember the Fast and Furious gun-walking snafu? He read about that in the papers. Same thing with NSA surveillance. And it took him a few days to realize that the Obamacare website was tripping balls but he finally started to get news reports about it after a few days. And needless to say, he didn't have any idea that the IRS—his IRS—was targeting Tea Party groups until he read about in the papers.

I'm guessing that he still doesn't really know that his Justice Department keeps deporting immigrants and raiding medical marijuana dispensaries in California either. At record rates. Because, you know, he said he wasn't going to pull that shit. Can somebody slip him a newspaper story about those things so he can finally get cracking?

If Barack Obama wants to play Chauncey Gardiner and basically act as if he has no frickin' idea of what's going around in his White House, that's fine by me.

But will his erstwhile defenders at least admit that either he is a know-it-all who is full of B.S. when he pleads ignorance or that he just has no clue about what's taking place in this City on a Hill already? It's not flattering to him whichever way you want to go. But at least it'll be consistent.

Last fall, Reason TV's Amanda Winkler looked at how the V.A. took care of soldiers coming back from Afghanistan and Iraq. In a word: shamefully. "Right now," said former V.A. program analyst Paul Sullivan, "it takes V.A. about a year to process a new claim. That is simply no way to treat a wounded soldier coming back from a war."

The root cause, according to Sullivan? The V.A. has received over 800,000 claims from Iraq and Afghanistan vets. Congress and V.A. planned for "zero." Zero. So if there's one thing the government stinks at more than actually planning and winning wars, it's taking care of the people it sends to fight them.

[Popman]

———Mr. President, you must have ‘people’ to collect, absorb and deliver news of the day to you.-——

He does... He gets a bullet point report daily....don’t know if he reads it...

Not an in depth analytical report like the “moron” Bush and every other POTUS read every day....

Just a one page bullet point highlighting the most pressing information....

After all he is so smart he doesn’t need for current events to be analyzed for him.....

[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

and he expects us to build him a library in his honor?gee I wonder how many square feet will take up the hall of accomplishments.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Shucks.....I’d hate to be a Democrat running for office this coming November, 2014!!! Obama needs to be impeached....not by Republicans...but his own Democrat Party!!!

[Las Vegas Ron]

Obamao doesn’t read papers, he reads scripts.

[oldbrowser]

So this is the smartest man in the democrats world?

They place him among the greatest presidents in our history?

ALL HAIL OBAMA THE GREAT!!!

[morphing libertarian]

-His library will be a library/mosque

[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

hey,why dont we just create another mount rushmore,and line them up like this. Carter,Clinton,Bozo The Clown,Barry. Maybe take out a mountain somewhere in Illinois?

[luvbach1]

I'm on a waiting list for an appointment with a podiatrist at a VA health center; that is, I have an appointment but it's not until October. But I have no reason to doubt it's a real appointment and that I will see a doc in October. It is true that VA hospitals often can not keep up with the volume of patients in certain departments.I suppose the obvious remedy would be to enlarge the hospitals and add staff if existing staff are making a good-faith effort at serving the vets but fall short due to an ever-increasing number of patients.

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[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I suppose the obvious remedy would be to enlarge the hospitals and add staff

The answer is market-based. Give vets insurance or treatment vouchers that they can redeem with the insurance company or hospital of their choice.

Government operations are always inefficient. Always.

[JimSEA]

Yeah, but Will Rogers wasn’t President and, more to the point, he wasn’t dumb and lazy.

[luvbach1]

I agree that vouchers would be preferable to enlarging the VA health system. But increasing its capacity is the only way to fix it within the existing agency.

[luvbach1]

I was not addressing the fraud issue, which is the most egregious failing of the VA.

[luvbach1]

The Obamanation would be wise to have an assistant read to him daily from Free Republic.

[luvbach1]

Shucks.....I’d hate to be a Democrat running for office this coming November, 2014!!!

I felt almost the same way going into 2012. But the presidential election returns (the Obamanation by 52.5%)are tempering my optimism for 2014. Will the Demonrats be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat this time?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

This administration is plausible deniability on steroids.

[Arsynic]

Dat Limbaugh Theorem.

[Old Yeller]

You are assuming the dumb, lieing son of a b#tch can even read.

The teleprompters don't read themselves.

[5th MEB]

try less than one square inch!

[bamahead]

So if there's one thing the government stinks at more than actually planning and winning wars, it's taking care of the people it sends to fight them.



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