Posted on 05/31/2014 8:14:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
This was not in the Barack Obama playbook. The resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki on Friday did not follow the usual arc of a crisis in the Obama administration.
Obama prefers to not get sucked into a drama and cede in the heat of the moment. He’d rather send in fixers and have the bloodletting occur in due course. Shinseki, however, tendered his resignation at the height of a political clamor for his departure and as revelations of systemic delays in veterans’ patient care mounted daily. Shinseki left even before the review Obama had ordered of the department’s problems was completed. […]
The inspector general, examining the troubled VA health care system in Phoenix, found that about 1,700 veterans in need of care were “at risk of being lost or forgotten” after being kept off an official waiting list. That came after allegations that as many as 40 veterans may have died while awaiting care at the agency’s Phoenix facilities. For a president who lists veterans as a priority, that suggests a massive failure. …
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This is actually going to work out for Shinseki.
“I resigned from the corrupt Obama Administration.”
I doubt it breaks any mold. The WaPo and NYT among other news organs have declared his high-holiness to be incompetent. That’ll be hard to walk back.
More stories on Obamacare failures and loss of job-related private insurance will keep things roiling right into November and beyond.
VA failures will continue to roll-out too. This administration and Dem led Senate will never allow a move to privatize the system and close VA facilities by issuing vouchers for us to take to a preferred clinic or hospital.
Yes, in a few cases it is already being done, but not in the main. There is too much political power and support in the lib/dem conglomerate that runs these VA facilities (and many other bureaus in our federal government). To eliminate that power base by going private would jeopardize the source of political donations and the source of reliable Dem votes.
1. Set somebody up to take the blame.
2. Let that person handle the heat until badly burned.
3. Fire that person.
4. Declare problem solved.
Benghazi’s still unsolved in spite of the replacement of the secretary of state, of course.
Benghazi’s still unresolved in spite of the replacement of the secretary of state, of course.
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