Well, Darth Queeg is right, as far as he goes:
President Barack Obama's vow to "fix whatever is wrong" with the Veterans Affairs Department is "wholly insufficient," Senator John McCain said, noting that he is glad Obama "finally saw fit" to speak about the growing scandal.
"While I am glad that after many weeks of refusing to acknowledge this widening scandal, President Obama finally saw fit to speak about it today, but his remarks are wholly insufficient in addressing the fundamental, systemic problems plaguing our veterans’ healthcare system," McCain said in a statement Wednesday.
Well, yeah, but all O did was proclaim his omniscient ignorance and issue the same tired, clichéd proclamations of faux outrage and empty promises to "get to the bottom" of a scandal he's known about, and happily "tolerated," for years:
Charles Krauthammer captured the essence of the Obama scandal reflex last night on Fox News' Special Report:
What did the president know? Everything, or at least enough to know he had another percolating scandal on his hands. When did he know it? Years ago. Did he give a rat's ass about it? Hell, no, because its victims were of the "wrong tribe," and because its cause was precisely what he wants to "fundamentally transform" American health care into - single-payer.
Oh, don't worry, nothing bad will ever happen to The One, like, oh, I don't know, being held accountable. But evidently, Dr. Petzel isn't a big enough body to grind under the scandal bus's wheels, and now Commissar Shinseki is coming under some, believe it or not, friendly fire:
Sure, Representative Scott and other Democrats don't really care about the VA scandal any more than their demigod does. Their lone concern is that if their subterranean prospects in upcoming midterm elections were a bonfire, VA-gate would be a thousand-bomber rain of jellied napalm landing upon it. But it is a pretty good indicator of the current direction of the prevailing political winds at the moment.
Of course, it's not like Red Barry cares any more about congressional Democrats' electoral prospects than he does the VA or any of his other scandals. He's a deity, after all, not bound by the petty rules and constitutions of mere mortal men. And he's got his pen and phone, don't forget. So expect Commissar Shinseki to stay right where he is. Because if there's one lesson Watergate should have taught everybody, it's that when a president starts throwing top lieutenants overboard, that just whets his pursuers' appetite for more. And O doesn't really have any pursuers, anyway.
As for Maverick:
McCain said the administration's response, or lack of one, has created a "crisis of confidence in our veterans’ community. We need answers, leadership and accountability, none of which we’ve seen from the Obama administration to date," he added.
What we need is the VA privatized and Barack Obama exiled to the Kuiper Belt. Each of which is about as likely as the other to actually happen. And so, the vigil for our veterans will forlornly continue.
No comments:
Post a Comment