{"id":47701,"date":"2014-05-17T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=47701"},"modified":"2014-05-17T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T15:46:48","slug":"milbank-tapper-shinseki-must-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=47701","title":{"rendered":"Milbank, Tapper & Army Times; Shinseki must go"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friend, Dana Milbank at the Washington Post and the editorial staff at the Army Times have both finally reached the conclusion that Eric Shinseki the Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs might be the problem at the department. From Milbank<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Worse was Shinseki\u2019s response when he finally appeared before a congressional committee Thursday to answer questions about the scandal. He refused to acknowledge any systemic problem and declined to commit to do much of anything, insisting on waiting for the results of yet another investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf any allegations are true,\u201d Shinseki told the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, \u201cthey\u2019re completely unacceptable to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf any are substantiated by the inspector general,\u201d he said, \u201cwe will act.\u201d<\/p>\n

If?<\/p>\n

Is there not already evidence of VA appointment schedulers cooking the books?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Simply put, things are getting worse, not better, in VA medical care. Veterans are the victims of systemic incompetence, negligence and possibly malfeasance.<\/p>\n

In situations such as this, the buck must stop at the top: After five years on the job, it is time for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to step down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, Jake Tapper at CNN asks how many dead veterans does this president need before he comes to realize that Shinseki “isn’t the best steward of these veterans”;<\/p>\n

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Nice of you guys to catch up to the opinions of all of the veterans at This Ain’t Hell, finally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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