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VA Secretary Eric Shinseki Resigns Amid Crisis
Wall Street Journal ^ | 05/30/2014 | Ben Kesling

Posted on 05/30/2014 10:51:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: A_Former_Democrat

Maybe Shinseki is a cabbage-head. A head has been made to roll, an event full of sound & fury but signifying nothing.

“The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor’s Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty’s measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.”

A. Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary”


21 posted on 05/30/2014 11:59:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Old Sarge

Oh, how I hated the Shinseki beret! Years later they finally got around to authorizing the wearing of the soft cap with ACU’s instead of that stupid wool head blanket.


22 posted on 05/30/2014 12:03:13 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: SeekAndFind

In the long run, this is going to work out for Shinseki.

“I resigned from the corrupt Obama Administration.”


23 posted on 05/30/2014 12:13:41 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

Resigning is a first step —
now how about a refund?


24 posted on 05/30/2014 12:21:37 PM PDT by CharleysPride
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“And why was this incompetent ****head appointed in the first place?”

To “show up” Rumsfeld.

Bravo, Barry. Bravo.


25 posted on 05/30/2014 12:21:59 PM PDT by CharleysPride
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To: Don Corleone; Liz; doc1019; xzins; trooprally; All

The VA has shown that its current staff is able to handle only a small percentage of the Vets case load as measured by the wait time for a first appointment.

The obvious solution is to do the following:
* reduce funding to the VA to equal the expenses of Vets treated more than 12 times per year;
* pay for the Private Hospital voucher medical expenses of Vets that have been waiting over 30 day from the saved fuel costs of the Mothballed Air Force One Two and Three Helicopter and Corporate Jet Fleet, for Obama, Michelle and Biden;
* downsize Federal funding of Obamacare, Medicare and Medicare by the same percentage as the reduction in Federal funding to the VA;
* pay for any Medical Expenses shortfall by selling, to non-Vets only, Medical War on Voters Bonds that are interest free.

“Support the Medical War on Voters and Vets: Buy Medical War on Voters and Vets Bonds today!”


26 posted on 05/30/2014 12:23:28 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: SeekAndFind

OK, now he can hide from the press and Congress...like Hilliary did...and not be called on to testify.

Not to mention abrogate all responsibility for allowing veterans to die...and for those that still live not getting any treatment for months and months.

Then in a few weeks, it will be declared old news when the new press sect is asked about the scandal.


27 posted on 05/30/2014 12:40:39 PM PDT by Syncro (Benghazi-LIES/CoverupIRS-LIES/CoverupDOJ-NO Justice--Etc Marxist Treason IMPEACH!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmmm...Carney and Shinseki resigning announced on the same day...a Friday.

That’s about all that’s being discussed.

So...I am wondering what they are releasing behind the scenes that they do not want talked about?


28 posted on 05/30/2014 1:22:46 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: SeekAndFind

Is he trading jobs with Carney?


29 posted on 05/30/2014 2:22:38 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Wagglebee, welcome home we missed you! ~ Þ)
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To: SeekAndFind
On May 29 I posted at 3:08 PM "Shinseki will probably be gone during the usual Friday graveyard docu-dump."

Today, y'all may address me as "The FReepic Oracle".

Thank you all very much from Madame Leni (contact me for predictions, I'm humble and I work cheap).

30 posted on 05/30/2014 2:35:08 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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31 posted on 05/30/2014 5:17:35 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Iron Munro

Looks like the wheels are starting to fall off the bus. Wonder who gets sacrificed next.


32 posted on 05/30/2014 5:54:47 PM PDT by mandaladon (To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an)
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t worry, comrade, he’ll still get paid.


33 posted on 05/31/2014 4:31:34 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Living in the midst of a silently coup.)
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35 posted on 05/31/2014 7:09:16 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Watch out...fascists like Obama never go quietly. He has to do something narcistcally memorable....to transform society....after all he is sainted.


36 posted on 05/31/2014 12:52:22 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: SeekAndFind

The VA sucks. Obama is the one who should quit. HE is in charge of all the bums who are screwing this nation into the ground. But, what the heck, he dudden care anyway. He wants the nation to rot into the ground. He is the commie from Chicago.


37 posted on 05/31/2014 3:48:24 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I never bothered to read up on any of the Cabinet appointment. They all agree on everything: it’s like one person filling all Cabinet posts. Where’s the Walter Hickel telling Nixon he was wrong on Vietnam?


38 posted on 06/01/2014 7:43:09 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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39 posted on 06/01/2014 4:36:58 PM PDT by Old Sarge (TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
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To: MinuteGal

LOL good one Madame Leni!

Miss (misses a lot) Cleo gots nuttin’ on you girl!


40 posted on 06/02/2014 8:14:54 AM PDT by Syncro (Benghazi-LIES/CoverupIRS-LIES/CoverupDOJ-NO Justice--Etc Marxist Treason IMPEACH!)
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