{"id":19635,"date":"2010-07-06T06:59:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19635"},"modified":"2010-07-06T06:59:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T10:59:24","slug":"va-committee-chair-criticizes-obama-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19635","title":{"rendered":"VA Committee chair criticizes Obama Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19603\">Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department notifying over 1800 veterans that they might have been infected<\/a> by a hospital&#8217;s failure to sterilize dental instruments properly. Yesterday, in <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/107179-veterns-affairs-chairman-blasts-administration-over-hospital-incident\">The Hill<\/a>, Russell Berman writes that the Democrat chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) got a little heated about it, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Filner criticized the administration for taking more than three months to send out the letters after it discovered the faulty safety precautions in March. \u201cWe should be much more caring not only about the procedures but the way we deal with them after they&#8217;re known,\u201d the congressman said. He said it was \u201cdisgraceful\u201d that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki did not know about the lapse until last week.<\/p>\n<p>Filner said the \u201conly way you can get accountability is if there is someone who actually pays a price for this&#8230;.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good bye,Eric. The door&#8217;s over there on the wall. Shinseki, the director of the DVA has proven that he&#8217;s an incompetent boob over the last year and a half. Remember the flap over the new GI Bill payments that were delayed because the VA could tell their assholes from their elbows? Filner is right &#8211; someone has to pay for this incompetence &#8211; I say fire Shinseki and just for GPs, throw out Brandon Friedman, Tammy Duckworth and Kayla Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wrote about the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department notifying over 1800 veterans that they &hellip; <a title=\"VA Committee chair criticizes Obama Administration\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19635\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA Committee chair criticizes Obama Administration<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}