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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe president held a press conference today to announce that Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs, Eric Shinseki I predicted that Shinseki would stay if he survived the criticism of Jon Stewart the other night – I guess I was right. But even Tammy Duckworth, a wounded veteran now in Congress and a former employee of Ric Shinseki criticized him to the Washington Post<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n The president says that he “will not stand for it…will not tolerate it”. But somehow he’ll allow Shinseki to conduct the investigation into his own incompetent boobery. “Upholding our sacred trust to veterans” should not include allowing Shinseki to continue in that position. He can’t help that he’s a boob and he’s not going to be miraculously cured of being a boob with one meeting with the president.<\/p>\n The president says that he’s going to continue to fix whatever is wrong in the VA, but he promised to do that years ago, and it’s not going to be fixed as long as an incompetent boob remains at the head of the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"has resigned his position<\/del> will remain in that position. Actually, I wrote that paragraph 15 minutes before the press conference began. I have held a grudge against Shinseki since 2001 when the Army Times reprinted an open letter I wrote to him in regards to the Black Beret issue and someone told me that he said “Who knew a retired platoon sergeant knows how to use email?” <\/p>\nNow, our next worry is who will be nominated to be the next secretary.<\/del> Shinseki should have been the best secretary in the history of the department, you know, being a wounded veteran himself. But, the Peter Principle remains in effect and Ric Shinseki’s picture will always accompany the definition.<\/p>\n