Thomas Sowell in NRO points out that perhaps it was more important what Mr. Obama got out of the Berghdahl deal than what the U.S. got out of it. For example, getting the VA scandal off the front page certainly made Obama a clear winner. Voters elected Barack Obama not based on serious reflection of […]
McCain Knew!
Remember the Building 18 scandal? No? Well refresh your memory here. We’re talking 2007, and the target is Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. I remember the mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, Walter Reed horror story like it was yesterday, and I am not even a U.S. senator like John McCain or Bernie Sanders, the crack […]
Too Big to Change
Where did the news go? After being front and center for over a week, you are hard pressed to find even a short paragraph on the Veteran Affairs Department and how the “toxic milieu” is going to be righted. Now we have senators Bernie Sanders and John McCain announcing a bipartisan deal on legislation to […]
Belly-Up Cockroaches
Remember the Building 18 scandal? No? Well refresh your memory here. We’re talking 2007, and the target is Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. I remember the mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, Walter Reed horror story like it was yesterday, and I am not even a U.S. senator like John McCain or Bernie Sanders, the crack […]
Inside Look: VA Scandal
“This debacle continues to be run out in the news cycle…albeit taking a back seat to the Bergdahl debacle for now. Major systemic malfeasance took place in the VA and I imagine that this will continue to be a major issue going forward, to the chagrin of Bernie Sanders and Paul Krugman who have suggested […]
The VA’s $151 Billion Tab
That is for this year alone! And the VA now has a case-processing backlog of a staggering 344,000! And just what benefits have been delivered to America by almost a decade and a half of Bush/Obama foreign entanglements? Sadly the outcome has been no different than was the case with Korea and Vietnam. And now […]
Meet the Doctor Who Launched the VA Scandal
Dennis Wagner in The Republic (here) tells the story of Dr. Sam Foote—whistleblower of the Veteran Affairs debacle. Read how Dr. Sam Foote started suspecting that Arizona VA was shortchanging veterans on medical care. Arizona Republic investigative reporter Dennis Wagner began looking into mismanagement in the Phoenix VA Health Care System in early 2013 when […]