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Shulkin Fired at VA
Twitter ^ | 3/28/18 | Donald Trump

Posted on 03/28/2018 2:43:06 PM PDT by DoodleDawg

I am pleased to announce that I intend to nominate highly respected Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, MD, as the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs........In the interim, Hon. Robert Wilkie of DOD will serve as Acting Secretary. I am thankful for Dr. David Shulkin’s service to our country and to our GREAT VETERANS!


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: davidshulkin; revolvingdoor; robertwilkie; ronnyljackson; shulkin; trumpveterans
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To: Electric Graffiti

They are leaving so fast now that it actually looks like normal turnover.


41 posted on 03/28/2018 3:43:51 PM PDT by Okeydoker
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To: All

I hope they let us go to outside doctors. I may need stents but I have kidney damage. Therefore the dye could cause me to end up on dialysis. What has to be done is put me in the hospital the day before and hydrate the heck out of me with IVs. But the VA doesn’t do that. They tell you to drink a bunch of water the day before. I’d rather have it done in a hospital setting.


42 posted on 03/28/2018 3:45:49 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: DoodleDawg

I looked him up when he became White House physician. He’s the real deal.

CC


43 posted on 03/28/2018 4:05:43 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Do you know what really burns my ass? A flame about 3 feet high.)
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To: Robe

tell Juan Williams that you do not get to be an Admiral because you are short of the qualifications necessary to run some government agency!!!!!


44 posted on 03/28/2018 4:07:54 PM PDT by dirtymac
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To: DoodleDawg
I posted this last Friday:


Since it looks like Trump could be on the way to losing his base in November, Trump in the next few weeks should:

  1. Fire Elaine Chao to stick it to McConnell.
  2. Fire Mueller and end the witch hunt, since he's going to be impeached anyway.
  3. Give an Oval Office address to the people, apologizing for being boxed into this corner, and lay out a new agenda for the second two years of his term, on fixing the VA system, rebuilding manufacturing, and scaling back H-1B visa workers taking STEM jobs from Americans to complement renewed growth in manufacturing jobs at home.

-PJ

45 posted on 03/28/2018 4:15:33 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Sacajaweau

hours to get seen. Wait for bus home. Get home many hrs. later. I’m talking Guys in their late sixties, seventies, and eighties...with moderate to severe disabilities.


46 posted on 03/28/2018 4:20:05 PM PDT by miserare ( Hillary--you lost! Get over it!!)
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To: mass55th; JamesP81

Like JamesP81, yesterday:

“Trump is finished in my household. If I wanted unconstitutional infringements of the 2nd and 4th Amendments I’d have voted for Clinton.

Screw this guy.”


47 posted on 03/28/2018 5:31:51 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

That’s quite enough.


48 posted on 03/28/2018 5:37:25 PM PDT by JamesP81
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To: Robe

Juan is quite the judge of medical competence and leadership.

Rear Admiral Jackson completed med school at the University of Texas (undergrad degree at Texas A&M); completed residencies at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA; one in transitional medicine, the other in emergency medicine (finished at the top of his class in that latter residency). Qualified as a medical dive officer, submarine medical officer and directed medical support for a Navy EOD group.

He’s been a White House physician for the past 10 years; joined the medical staff after a combat tour in Iraq where he headed a team charged with keeping badly wounded Marines alive until they could be transferred to a mobile surgical hospital (or similar facility).

The VA is the ultimate swamp, but the idea that Dr. Jackson never “ran anything” is ludicrous. If he can bring in the best talent from military medicine and the private sector, he can make a real difference at the agency.


49 posted on 03/28/2018 5:42:20 PM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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To: Robe
Juan needs a good old fashioned A$$ kicking

I volunteer

50 posted on 03/28/2018 5:45:05 PM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: DoodleDawg

Who said he was fired? Trump didn’t say he was fired.


51 posted on 03/28/2018 5:56:45 PM PDT by CodeToad (The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: donozark
Shulkin got caught up in a minor “Travelgate” of his own doing

Which is utterly inexcusable. I don't even get it. I like travel, vacation travel, but business travel is not exactly the perk anyone thinks it is, unless you can figure out a way to abuse it and turn it into a perk, which is usually illegal or prejudicial to continued employment when someone else e.g. scrooge taxpayer or scrooge customer is paying the bill.

52 posted on 03/28/2018 6:14:15 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: donozark

Worked for the VA through a contractor for the past five years. Contract expired yesterday and we weren’t being replaced. I can tell you the VA has some of the most dedicated and wonderful people you could meet and a whole bunch of incompetent dolts with entitlement mentalities. It will always be incompetent as long as the same folks (and their union) are at the government trough.


53 posted on 03/28/2018 6:23:12 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: DoodleDawg

There’s been a few retired General officers to head the VA, but I’ve never heard of an active duty general/flag officer heading the VA. Sounds strange to me, but Trump I guess can nominate who he feels like nominating. The leaker McMaster who Trump fired as NSA I guarantee will get a 4th star for the “outstanding” job he did in the White House. What a joke.


54 posted on 03/28/2018 6:44:33 PM PDT by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness")
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To: DoodleDawg

My understanding is that Trump fired him because the VA situation has not changed for the positive during the Trump administration. I agree — Replace him.


55 posted on 03/28/2018 6:48:45 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: DoodleDawg

From Wikipedia - it says he was fired. Might have something to do with this?

European trip controversy
In September 2017, The Washington Post reported that Shulkin spent nearly half his time on a recent international trip to Europe—which was paid for by taxpayers—sightseeing and shopping with his wife, Merle Bari.[27] Shulkin later told the Post that he did “nothing inappropriate” on the trip, that the trip was taken primarily to attend a Five Eyes conference, and that personal visits to “various historic and other sites in London and in Denmark” were done “on nights, on weekends, the day before the conference started” and were “paid for by me.”[28]

In February 2018, a report by Michael J. Missal, the Inspector General of Veterans Affairs, found that Shulkin and his staff had lied to both the agency’s ethics officials and the public about the nature of his July 2017 trip to Europe. The report found that Shulkin’s chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, altered emails and made false statements to make it look like Shulkin was receiving a Danish government award to justify his wife accompanying him on the taxpayer-funded trip. The VA paid over $4,300 for her airfare. The Inspector General found that the overall expense for the trip was at least $122,334. The report also found that Shulkin had inappropriately accepted tickets to Wimbledon worth thousands of dollars and had directed an aide to act as a “personal travel concierge” for the trip. The Inspector General referred his concerns about the potential criminality of the actions undertaken by Shulkin’s chief of staff to the Justice Department, which declined to prosecute.[29]


56 posted on 03/28/2018 6:59:19 PM PDT by ozarkgirl
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To: 9YearLurker

Wrong. This guy is just what we need!

Served in Iraq heading up resucitative trauma team. He.s not a f..g beaurocrat hospital administrator.
Actual deployment gives him the experience to carry out the mission..not sit in meetings all day.


57 posted on 03/28/2018 7:42:05 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WINNING! !!)
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To: proust
Jeff Sessions has been AG for 1 year, 1 month, 19 days.

In that time period, he has taken 768 naps, seen 297 episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful and has had 1,024 bowel movements (he eats a lot of Mexican food, I hear). That pretty much sums up his tenure.
58 posted on 03/28/2018 7:42:49 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: ExNewsExSpook

See my post 57.

You said it way better than I could!
THIS is the man we need NOW.

Trump can spot a true leader...MAGA


59 posted on 03/28/2018 7:45:18 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WINNING! !!)
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To: Terry Mross

Trust me....it’s already more and reliance on outside..community..medical....and that will just increase..fast.


60 posted on 03/28/2018 7:47:53 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WINNING! !!)
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