VA scandal

[DesertBull]

Some group in Egypt claims they can blow the lid off of Obama. Speculation is that they will claim Bin Laden was dead at least a year before he was "killed" Of course they want something in return for keeping quiet so probably just blowing smoke.

[Edge]

For the last several years, I've been taking a friend to the Phoenix VA. He's a Viet Nam vet with a host of illnesses, he's 100% disabled.

He fought hard for the US, was in Nam less than 12 hours when he got into his first fire fight. Was wounded twice and exposed to Agent Orange after several tours. Now he needs the VA's help to try and stay alive; diabetes, high blood pressure, PTSD, and other injuries. All the VA wants to do is dispense pain killers, which he refuses.

 

I see first hand how they give him the run around. He shows up for appointments, they say they lost his records...(he carries his own copies), they tell him HE changed his appointment or missed it when he did no such thing. For over a year he's been trying to see a specialist about his shoulder. They finally told him he had an appointment with a surgeon in San Diego in a few months. He drove there, got a hotel room and was there at his appointment the next day, the surgeon's office said he had no appointment with the surgeon.

 

Then you hear how the detainees at Gitmo have a 1.3 to 1 patient to doctor ratio while the VA's is 35 to 1.

 

It's tough watching this man disintegrate before my eyes after all he did for this country.

[naturegirl]

Anyone associated with the VA knows the truth whether you are a patient, family member, employee, etc.. Up until now it was brushed under the rug. I'm hoping there will be some good changes because of the coverage. Our vets deserve better healthcare than an AHCCCS patient would get, which isn't currently the case for most.

 

and Obama knew all about it as has every president.

[DesertBull]

the VA is what Obama called the model for the future of American healthcare.

 

AKA single payer.

[DesertBull]

 

And While PREZ was photo-oping, his staff leaked the name of the CIA station chief in Kabul, putting his life in instant jeopardy.

 

Can you be anymore incompetent?

 

 

 

 

Washington Post - White House breaks with protocol by publicly identifying name of CIA station chief in Kabul to pool reporters."

I believe the Bush administration also leaked the name of a CIA operative because they were mad her husband a white house aid was against the war in Iraq. I believe Libby scooter got a perjury sentence out of the deal but Bush got him off. I guess that's the game played in politics.

 

 

 

May 28th – Remember Valerie Plame? There were a gazillion news stories about her, with even a Hollywood flick highlighting her “harrowing tale” as a DC socialite exposed as a CIA “officer.”

Libs and the media were apoplectic, with then Senator O demanding an immediate congressional investigation.

 

W appointed a special counsel and Cheney’s Chief of Staff Scooter Libby was convicted, disbarred and forced to pay a $250K fine. But Plame was never in danger, unless in danger meant being invited to a few less DC cocktail parties.

 

But the Chief of Station in Kabul is a far different matter. Front Page Magazine: “Hoping to distract Americans from his death panels for veterans, Obama made a Bush style visit to Afghanistan and managed to cause even more harm to national security by outing the CIA Station Chief there.”

 

O’s staff sent out 6,000 emails thus blowing this guy’s cover to smithereens. The WH has announced yet another phony investigation, the latest in their long line of phony WH investigations. What needs to be investigated is how a complete moron got elected president twice!

[DesertBull]

May 31st – Four earlier quotes made sometime after O took office:

1) NY Times “economist” Paul Krugman: "We actually have a real live case of impressive cost control in health care: the VA system."

2) Howard Dean: “The Public Option is just like the Veterans Administration."

3) Slate Magazine (on the VA): “The Triumph of Socialized Medicine. Right here in the USA."

4) The WH itself: "Vets' health care is safe and sound."

 

Fast forward to Politico yesterday: “The audit, issued as VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned Friday, found that 64 percent of the 216 VA facilities reviewed had at least one instance where a veterans’ desired appointment date had been changed. The review found 13 percent of schedulers had received specific instructions to misrepresent wait times.” 64 PERCENT. 13 PERCENT TRAINED TO COMMIT FRAUD. Three things we know:

1) Krugman & Dean are fools.

2) Obamacare is building its own army of corruptocrats. &

3) With all of O’s delays, the real “fun” hasn’t even started. See you in November Dems! P