Posted on 05/16/2014 7:43:57 AM PDT by george76
The abominable callousness demonstrated at the Department of Veterans Affairs is deadly serious, and warrants more than an all-too-familiar claim of “responsibility” from Eric Shinseki:
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Of course, Shinskei is just echoing his boss and other members of the administration:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s declaration that she takes responsibility for the failure to secure our facilities and personnel in Libya — with no word on any actual consequence of this failure — is the most recent example. But the approach began from the very start of this administration.
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Discussing the national debt in Virginia on Aug. 6, 2009, Obama said, “I don’t mind being responsible. I expect to be held responsible for these issues, because I’m the president.” We’ve added $4.4 trillion in new debt since he said those words.
* After ObamaCare passed, the president admitted he hadn’t kept his promises on how the legislation would be handled... Obama said. “I take responsibility.”
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The new way to avoid taking responsibility is to tell the world you’re “taking responsibility.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
He is a liberal/leftist elitist through and through...and I doubt if he will resign his current sinecure because elitists just don't do that. They consider themselves to be untouchable because they are above the rest of us stupid peons.
Leni
He said it with as much enthusiasm as, "I'd like medium starch with these shirts!"
I couldn't believe that anyone on that committee or in the audience even, didn't break out laughing their socks off!
Reminds me of
Begone Italians!
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He is also the moron who called for the Army to dump it's tanks and return to armored cars, taking the Army back to WWI capability.
Regards,
GtG
“I think Shinseki’s the guy who, when he was Chief of Staff, decided all soldiers in the Army should be able to wear the black beret...y’know, cuz it’s not fair that only the elite get to look dashing.”
Never trust anyone from Hawaii! It’s mostly a Japanese outpost of socialist/marxists. The Japanese outnumber the real Hawaiians by a wide margin. Just look at who’s running the government outside of their nutgall governor, who was born in Buffalo, NY (another westward migrating Commie who passed us by in California).
If Obama had any leadership he would have summarily fired the VA head in Phoenix and other VA centers when their wrong doing came to light. In private industry any employee that screwed up like this would quickly lose their job. Remember Reagan and the air traffic controllers?
Yes, and not to mention the bogus POTUS.
It’s a convenient semantic trick, meant to give the appearance of being responsible without being responsible.
It smacks of the Albert Speer defense at the Nuremberg Trials, wherein he “took responsibility” as the Minister of Armamentsfor the slave labor and attending death toll in his war factories without actually admitting that he had any role in, or knowledge of, the policy at all.
It got him a 20-year sentence; Shinseki should get no less.
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