My hovercraft .... it's full of eels!
Posted on 05/18/2014 9:30:42 AM PDT by kristinn
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough defended the White House reaction to the scandals emerging from Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals around the country, saying on CBS' "Face the Nation" that President Obama "is madder than hell - I've got the scars to prove it."
In an interview with CBS News Chief White House Correspondent, McDonough said that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki is the right person to lead the investigation into reports that veterans have been put on secret waiting lists to hide the number of people who were not being treated within the VA's goal of 14 days. Several Republican lawmakers and The American Legion, the nation's largest veterans group, have called on Shinseki to resign.
"General Shinseki continues to work this every single day...and he will continue to work these issues until they're fixed," McDonough said. "The president will continue to demand that he and all of us who work for him continue to fix these things until they are functioning the way that our veterans believe they should and...so that they get the services and the benefits that they have earned."
In a separate interview on "Face the Nation," American Legion National Commander Daniel Dellinger stood by the organization's insistence that Shinseki should step down. "He should be coming forward with the same leadership he showed in the military as a four-star general into the VA and it just hasn't happened. The accountability just hasn't been there and I think it is systematic of the entire system," Dellinger said. He said that under similar circumstances the CEO of a major corporation would have stepped down or a member of the military would have been relieved of duty.
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My hovercraft .... it's full of eels!
Boy Howdy!
Ain't that just special?
Has it been reported that Obama ever farted.
Wow! Let me guess .... he teared up, scratched your face, and pulled your hair ?
Only because it adds to his scandal sheet and makes his administration look as incompetent as it really is. Not because veterans are being hurt.
Madder than hell that it was discovered,that is.
With Obama its al politics and no leadership.
He’s soooooo angry that he might even Tweet about it someday. But first...Fore!!
I’ll believe they are serious when they require the President, congress critters and all WH staff to get care through the VA system, all under randomly generated false names.
Until then, it’s all BS.
Shenski to investigate VA.
In other news, investigator Adolph Hitler, today, stated that claims that Nazis have infiltrated the government are the work of “disaffected complainers”, and totally false.
Actually he’s glad that this particular scandal is ventilated before this fall, but angry that his team can’t think of a way to blame it all on youtube.
The fine print’s important: he’s mad about the reports. Not the problems... the reports. He’s cool with the incompetence of the people he put in charge of our federal agencies, or he wouldn’t have put them there.
Bingo
LOL! The Onion, right??
“McDonough said that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki is the right person to lead the investigation”......
And Lois Lerner is the right person to investigate the IRS scandal and Hillary Clinton is the right person to investigate the Benghazi foulup....In the governmental sphere incompetence has its privileges.
Pretty astounding statement considering this administration is chock full of frat boys and adolescents who never even ran a lemonade stand, have almost no experience in the REAL world...
They have proven they do not have the ability or wherewithal to fix anything...
Obama is going to demand they fix the VA...LOL
That's like asking a 12 year to fix Detroit...
Betting Snowden is reviewing some notes. That’s what they’re afraid of.
cough cough
no drama obama?
the one that left for Vegas when his ambassador was murdered?
unh hunh, yeeeeeeeeeeeeah, riiiiiiiiiiiight
Is he going to focus like a laser too?
Pray America wakes up
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