Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's cabinet is incompetent

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 05/22/2014 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Hotlanta Mike]

Veterans 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 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 agency to go after groups deemed too conservative. She invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid telling Congress the whole truth.

[Hotlanta Mike]

[WayneS]

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's cabinet is incompetent

I'm going to give Victor David Hanson the benefit of the doubt and assume it has NOT taken him five years to realize this fact.

[areukiddingme1]

C'mon people, just lower your expectations and everything will irie.

[rjsimmon]

In other news:

Sun Rises in the East.

[Yosemitest]

Not "Incompetent" .
They want you to THINK that.
They're accomplishing everything they want to accomplish by breaking the law themselves.
They ARE EVIL !

He's a BIBLICAL CURSE !

Remember:
Don't let anyone deceive you in any way,
for [that day will not come] until the rebellion occurs
and the man of LAWLESSNESS is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped,
so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?
And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
For the secret power of LAWLESSNESS is already at work;
but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.
And then the LAWLESS ONE will be revealed,
whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth
and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
The coming of the LAWLESS ONE will be in accordance with the work of Satan
displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders,
and IN EVERY SORT OF EVIL THAT DECEIVES those who are perishing.
They perish because THEY REFUSED to love the truth and so be saved.
For this reason God sends them a POWERFUL DELUSION
so that THEY WILL BELIEVE THE LIE
and so that ALL will be condemned who have NOT BELIEVED the truth
but have DELIGHTED in wickedness.

Let us remember ...

"You Americans are so gullible.
No, you won’t accept Communism outright.
But we will keep feeding you small doses of socialism
until you finally wake up and realize you already have communism.
We won’t have to fight you;
we’ll so weaken your economy
that you will fall like over ripe fruit into our hands. "


Nikita Khruschev, Former Soviet Premier

[Hoffer Rand]

Penetrating insight into the blindingly obvious...

[cuban leaf]

I’ve said for decades that an idiot can be a good president if he gets himself a good cabinet and honors its collective wisdom.

Obama brought the Chicago machine with him. The only experience they had in winning the day involved their enemies kneecaps and their modification. That doesn’t work on the national stage.

And that’s really all they had.

[DonkeyBonker]

Excrement runs downhill.

[Little Ray]

Actually, I think they are pretty competent for their values of “Evil and Anti-American.”
The are doing a lot of damage - deliberately.

[molson209]

so where does he put his socks ?

[DPMD]

As well-meaning as he is, I think Dr. Hanson is wrong. Obama’s cabinet is enormously competent. They are enormously competent at carrying out his agenda for the transformation of America from world leader to third world village.

[givemELL]

Also needed is a “Czar watch”, “www.czarwatch.org”..There must be over forty czars and they seem to operate autonomously in the background. Do they create the bases for executive orders and Executive Branch policy? The Cabinet itself is only the tip of the Executive Iceberg in operation.

[DuncanWaring]

They’re not incompetent.

If they were incompetent, they’d do the right thing occasionally, just by accident.

They never do the right thing.

They’re evil; evil to the very marrow of their bones.