White House: Obama Learned Of Bogus VA Lists From Media

by JASmius

I've been re-reading The Ends of Power, the late H.R. Haldeman's Watergate memoir, and was immediately struck by one ironic similarity between the scandal that brought down President Nixon and the cavalcade of Obama Regime misdeeds: In Watergate as in all of O's "gates" - from Fast & Furious to the IRS to the AP to the NSA to Benghazi and now the VA - both White Houses professed to always be the last to know about the scandals.

The accompanying contrast being, of course, that the media didn't let Tricky Dick get away with that BS excuse:

The first time President Barack Obama heard about allegations of phony waiting lists that hid long — and allegedly deadly — lapses of care for ailing veterans was from an April 23 CNN report,  White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday.

"If you mean the specific allegations that I think were first reported by your network out of Phoenix, I believe, we learned about them through the reports," Carney said, according to CNN.

Even if that's true, so what?  Is O not responsible for everything that transpires in his administration?  Remember that the VA's crappy care was a bone of contention for then-Senator/candidate Obama in the 2008 campaign, and he's been in power for five and a half years.  What's he done about it?

Trick question.  You know what he's done about it - take the single-payer disaster of the VA and force it on the entire American people via the cram-down of ObamaCare.  Take the hundreds of veterans that have died awaiting surgeries and/or treatments that never came, and the VA's cover-up of those negligent homicides, expand it by a factor of, say, fifty, and there's the future of "fundamentally transformed" American health "care".

"Make no mistake about it," that is what's behind this:

On Tuesday, there were mounting signs that the White House realized they had a full-fledged scandal on their hands and were moving into crisis mode, the Washington Post reported.

The damage could be especially severe to Obama's domestic agenda, which has barely recovered from the ObamaCare debacle ahead of midterms that polls show Democrats will lose in large numbers.

I would just remind one and all again that this is now two "full-fledged scandals" of this president that involve large numbers of dead Americans.  Which is in stark contrast to, say, Watergate, which was merely a few goofy, bumbling political burglaries undertaken by Nixonians who labored under the misapprehension that a Republican administration could play by the same rules of skullduggery as the FDR, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson regimes played - wiretapping, break-ins, Oval Office taping systems, etc.

I would also point out that "Obama's domestic agenda" has not at all "recovered" from the ObamaCare debacle, and that the one and only reason that that phrase doesn't read "Obama's presidency" is the politicoideological tribe from which he springs, which guarantees the absence of the media campaign that alone can make a scandal into a scandal.

Or just ask yourself what would have happened to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush41, or Bush43 had any of them, through their own actions or inaction, brought about the needless deaths of hundreds of Americans, and why Barack Hussein Obama should be any different.

If that thought were acted upon, I guarantee you O would "find out" about it a helluva lot earlier than watching it on CNN.


UPDATE: Laura Ingraham elaborates....




UPDATE II: ....as does retiring Representative Michelle Bachmann. (R-MN6)