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Politics Have Trumped Ethics In The Obama Administration
Townhall.com ^ | May 22, 2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/22/2014 4:19:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki cannot get a handle on the recent scandalous treatment of veterans in VA hospitals, where more than 40 sick men were allowed to die without proper follow-up treatment. A cover-up allegedly followed. When the Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal broke under the George W. Bush administration, heads rolled. So far, Shinseki seems immune from similar accountability.

Almost nothing that former Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius promised before, during or after the implementation of the ill-starred Affordable Care Act came true. She was also cited by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel for violating the Hatch Act, as she improperly campaigned for Obama's re-election while serving as a Cabinet secretary.

IRS official Lois Lerner used the federal tax-collection agency to go after groups deemed too conservative. She invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid telling Congress the whole truth.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 0bamaadmin; 0bamaadminscandals; noconstitution; nojustice; nomoreamerica; notruth; vascandals; vdh; veteransadmin

1 posted on 05/22/2014 4:19:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Politics is ethics in this administration.


2 posted on 05/22/2014 4:21:43 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Mouton

The liberal mind is void of ethics. Politics is their means to justify their sin.


3 posted on 05/22/2014 4:29:21 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Kaslin

Politics trumps everything in Washington, regardless of party.


4 posted on 05/22/2014 4:30:41 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Thank you, beat me to it.


5 posted on 05/22/2014 4:31:23 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: Kaslin

Can we be frank here? The people Obama chose to serve in his regime are there precisely because of their lack of ethics. The only example we need is Eric Holder.


6 posted on 05/22/2014 4:39:33 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: kinsman redeemer
I think you succinctly summed it up very nicely.
7 posted on 05/22/2014 4:43:25 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Wiser now

Correct! If they had any principles or ethics, they would have not been there in the first place. Water seeks its own level.


8 posted on 05/22/2014 4:46:53 AM PDT by sport
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To: Kaslin

The Revolution cares nothing about ethics, only about furthering the Revolution.

IMHO


9 posted on 05/22/2014 4:49:24 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Kaslin
Politics are just the rules, POWER is the game.

Moral people are at a disadvantage when playing with those that do not.

10 posted on 05/22/2014 4:53:16 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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To: Kaslin

Politics Have Trumped Ethics In The Obama Administration
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Ya think?


11 posted on 05/22/2014 6:01:47 AM PDT by Din Maker
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To: Kaslin

It was a lack of ethics that started the fraudulent politics—massive voter fraud.


12 posted on 05/22/2014 6:19:14 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Kaslin

Can’t trump what you don’t have.


13 posted on 05/22/2014 6:22:56 AM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Kaslin
Politics has trumped LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America beware ... your lives are worth nothing to Obama and his DemocRATS & thug administration. Chris Stevens and the Vets are proof positive of this.

Chris Stevens was one of them, a Team Obama loyalist. But they abandoned him and dishonored him in death because the President's political needs outweighed his life. (Mark Steyn)

"Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost." Friends, that’s rationed care. (Sarah Palin)

14 posted on 05/22/2014 6:45:14 AM PDT by Qiviut (Obama: A Caesar at home & a Chamberlain abroad, dividing the country & uniting the world against us.)
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To: Kaslin

This author is assuming that there is any single person in the Obama administration who even can spell ‘ethics’.


15 posted on 05/22/2014 6:47:54 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Qiviut

BTTT


16 posted on 05/22/2014 7:11:16 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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