Undecider in Chief

http://freebeacon.com/blog/undecider-in-chief/ ^ | May 29 2014 | Andrew Stiles

[PoloSec]

THE POLITICO reports that President Obama is still undecided about whether to fire Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, even after a VA Inspector General’s report found “systemic” problems at the agency. The story includes one of the most ridiculous sentences ever written about someone whose job title includes the word “commander.”

[Obama] has reached the point where he doesn’t know if Shinseki will be able to fix the problems at the VA, White House aides said Wednesday.

Think about that for a second. More than a month after the VA scandal came to light, the President of the United States has arrived at the conclusion that he doesn’t know what to do. He has endeavored to decide, and has accomplished indecisiveness.

Obama found the IG report “extremely troubling,” we are told. A number of Senate Democrats (albeit only those who are up for reelection) have called for Shinseki’s resignation. Either Shinseki will be fired or he won’t. As is often the case when it comes to scandals and crises, we are left wondering: What the hell is he waiting for?

We are told the president has a “deliberative” leadership style, and presumably Obama and his fawning aides consider that one of his greatest strengths. The average individual is unlikely to see it as such. THE POLITICO observes:

Obama’s decision to hold off, even as that puts him at odds with more people in his own party, risks leaving him in a situation where he seems to respond only well after the outrage has boiled over. He could appear to place loyalty and defensiveness over accountability and response.

Of course, there’s a perfectly reasonable (non-political) argument for keeping Shinseki—firing him won’t change anything, and bringing in someone new could further complicate efforts to reform the agency. If that’s how Obama feels, he could make that case, just as House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) has done, instead of just muddling along and waiting for the political pressure to force his hand.

One imagines the president and his Team of Geniuses huddling in the Oval Office as Obama delivers a 30-minute monologue about the various moral components of the controversy, before handing it off to David Plouffe, who has prepared a presentation using data and pie charts regarding the politically optimal, poll-tested, focus-grouped rhetoric to deploy in response. Later, the president takes Chief of Staff Denis McDonough for a stroll around the White House grounds, and delivers another 30-minute lecture about his thought process.

“I’ve decided,” Obama remarks, before McDonough can get a word in. “I don’t know.”

[PoloSec]

The last sentence sums it up pretty good, the only thing he can decide is that he does not know.

[hinckley buzzard]

Of course, there’s a perfectly reasonable (non-political) argument for keeping Shinseki—firing him won’t change anything.

This is what John Boehner said. I guess the idea is, the same guy who over-saw all this malfeasance and its coverup, is going to be entrusted to fix it. Right.

The real plan as explained by Rush today, is that after Obama gets his idiot reports, firing Shinseki will then be seen as a response and a solution, and make further corrective action unnecessary.

[Graewoulf]

The Boehner-funded, Commander in Chief Obama’s latest Grand Bargain is to assign the US Military to mercilessly attack the Settled Science of the Climate Change Weapon of Mass Destruction.

This Grand Bargain Announcement by Commander in Chief Obama was greeted by the 2014 Graduation Class at West Point with a 25 % standing ovation.

IOW, a future 75 % reduction in force of the newly commissioned Army officers from West Point.

Over the years, Doormat Republican Speaker Boehner has been able to fund all of the Democrats’ Commander in Chief Obama’s Military decisions.

Speaker Boehner has thus been essential to helping Obama to lead from the bottom of a Socialist, Group Hug, Hell Hole.

Speaker Boehner should indeed be in line for a promotion by Arrogant Commander in Chief Obama.

Over the years, Boehner has doubled the taxpayer dollars sent to the failed Veterans Administration.

The rumor that a grateful, but still Arrogant, Obama is considering promoting Boehner to be in charge of the Veterans Administration has yet to be confirmed.

[Mr. K]

He’s been voting ‘present’ his whole life

[Sasparilla]

Geez, Michelle even has to pick out his clothes, dress him, and tie his shoes every morning.