Media Ratchets Up Pressure On Obama As Probe Confirms Cover-Up At VA...

[paulitician]

First honorable & decent thing i've seen from our MSM in many many years. This thing is just plain awful. Good Vets needlessly lost their lives. There has to be accountability.


Well, President Obama can no longer say he’s waiting for the results of the investigation.

At least one investigation is done, and it’s devastating to the VA.

Now even John McCain is calling on Eric Shinseki to resign, and urging the Justice Department to launch a criminal probe.

The IG’s investigation confirms what the Arizona Republic and CNN originally reported, that there was lying and a cover-up at the Phoenix facility.

Critics say the president follows an increasingly tired playbook: He finds out about some administration malfeasance from the media, expresses outrage, fires no one, asks for an investigation, and by the time the probe is over, the White House can promise reforms and generally treat the matter as old news.

But Wednesday’s report could force Obama to speed up that timetable:

“The inspector general for the Department of Veterans Affairs reported on Wednesday that at least 1,700 veterans at the agency’s medical center in Phoenix were not registered on the proper waiting list to see doctors, creating a serious condition that means veterans ‘continue to be at risk of being forgotten or lost’ in the convoluted scheduling process,” says the New York Times.

“Irregularities in how the 1,700 veterans were handled, the report said, mean that ‘these veterans may never obtain a requested or required clinical appointment.’”

The average waiting time for a medical appointment for a group of patients studied was 115 days, but the Phoenix center falsely claimed it was 24 days.

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[Edgetho]

I don't want Shinseki fired out of revenge.

I want him fired because he and all his appointees were there when this shit went down AND THEY'RE THE ONES WITH THE MOST TO LOSE.

So take a guess at what they're doing as we speak?

Files are disappearing, people are being coached in what to say, they're getting their 'stories straight' and they're threatening anybody that wants to come forward and talk.

it's the dimocrap way.

Just like at the ATF after Fast and Furious went down. Just like at the IRS after they got caught. Just like after Benghazi.

It's the dimocrap way. It's what they do.

the dimocrap party is not a political party, it is a criminal organization.

Shinseki needs to go RIGHT NOW before all the incriminating evidence disappears

 

[paulitician]

I don't want Shinseki fired out of revenge.

I want him fired because he and all his appointees were there when this shit went down AND THEY'RE THE ONES WITH THE MOST TO LOSE.

So take a guess at what they're doing as we speak?

Files are disappearing, people are being coached in what to say, they're getting their 'stories straight' and they're threatening anybody that wants to come forward and talk.

it's the dimocrap way.

Just like at the ATF after Fast and Furious went down. Just like at the IRS after they got caught. Just like after Benghazi.

It's the dimocrap way. It's what they do.

the dimocrap party is not a political party, it is a criminal organization.

Shinseki needs to go RIGHT NOW before all the incriminating evidence disappears

It's the 'Chicago Way.' Criminal thugs.

 

[Edgetho]

Unions getting the benefit of Taxpayer-funded Federal employees doing their bidding for them? Why not. **** the Veterans. They're just rednecks and bitter clingers, right?

Besides, most of them vote Republican so really, who cares?

While Vets Wait (And Die), VA Employees Paid Millions To Do Union Business

Shameful…

Via National Review:

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs paid at least $11.4 million to 174 nurses, mental-health specialists, therapists, and other health-care professionals who, instead of caring for veterans, worked full-time doing union business.

The list of these taxpayer-funded union representatives at VA offices around the nation and their salaries was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act by Georgia representative Phil Gingrey’s staff and provided to National Review Online.

“So many health-care providers were on that list — nurses or physical therapists or whatever they may be — when so many veterans are falling through the cracks,” a Gingrey aide tells me. “It’s kind of shocking that these paid employees wouldn’t be fully dedicated to patient care.”

dimocraps are the scum of the earth

 

[HenryBHough]

The one thing standing between Shinseki and unemployment is Our Kenyan President's inability to find a sufficiently blatant tax evader to constitute a worthy replacement.

The stock is kind low, the cream of the crop already having been elevated......

 

[paulitician]

Unions getting the benefit of Taxpayer-funded Federal employees doing their bidding for them? Why not. **** the Veterans. They're just rednecks and bitter clingers, right?

Besides, most of them vote Republican so really, who cares?

While Vets Wait (And Die), VA Employees Paid Millions To Do Union Business

Shameful…

Via National Review:

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs paid at least $11.4 million to 174 nurses, mental-health specialists, therapists, and other health-care professionals who, instead of caring for veterans, worked full-time doing union business.

The list of these taxpayer-funded union representatives at VA offices around the nation and their salaries was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act by Georgia representative Phil Gingrey’s staff and provided to National Review Online.

“So many health-care providers were on that list — nurses or physical therapists or whatever they may be — when so many veterans are falling through the cracks,” a Gingrey aide tells me. “It’s kind of shocking that these paid employees wouldn’t be fully dedicated to patient care.”

dimocraps are the scum of the earth

Good heroic Vets are dead because they were refused care. It's more than shameful. It's crimnal. Those defending this Administration would be absolutely outraged if Illegals and GITMO Prisoners were treated this way. It's very sad we're not seeing that same kind of outrage from this President's defenders.

 

[MACAULAY]

Public Employee Unions are one of the great cancers on this Great American Society.

Private Employee Unions had a roll--to reign in the greedy--but they got greedy themselves, and the Market is taking care of them.

But the Taxpayers are not greedy...they are instead Sheep to be fleeced by not-so-covert Democrat/Socialists Public Employee Unions.

Is this quote from above true?

"In 2012, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs paid at least $11.4 million to 174 nurses, mental-health specialists, therapists, and other health-care professionals who, instead of caring for veterans, worked full-time doing union business."


If it is true, shame on every public official who has let this happen....starting with that perfect ass in the White House.

 

[Erand7899]

Although I am disgusted with the VA treatment of veterans, we need to keep things honest about federal employee unions.

First, and foremost, federal employees cannot strike, and they cannot negotiate for wages or benefits. Nor, are employees required to join any of these unions, or pay union dues, as a condition of employment.

They can negotiate working conditions and grievance procedures. They act as representatives of workers, and provide a means of communications between employees and management.

Do not equate civil service regulations and laws, designed to protect federal employees from political retribution, with the unions. These regulations and laws are established by the bureaucracy, congress, and the courts. The fact that it is almost impossible to fire a federal employee, for any reason, has been caused by precedents set by prior administrative actions and court decisions.

For instance, management cannot fire an employee for theft of government property because there are previous cases of management not firing an employee for theft, and therefore, it would be disparate treatment to fire another employee for the same reason. The same applies to just about every type of misconduct on a federal employee's part.

 

[paulitician]

Although I am disgusted with the VA treatment of veterans, we need to keep things honest about federal employee unions.

First, and foremost, federal employees cannot strike, and they cannot negotiate for wages or benefits. Nor, are employees required to join any of these unions, or pay union dues, as a condition of employment.

They can negotiate working conditions and grievance procedures. They act as representatives of workers, and provide a means of communications between employees and management.

Do not equate civil service regulations and laws, designed to protect federal employees from political retribution, with the unions. These regulations and laws are established by the bureaucracy, congress, and the courts. The fact that it is almost impossible to fire a federal employee, for any reason, has been caused by precedents set by prior administrative actions and court decisions.

For instance, management cannot fire an employee for theft of government property because there are previous cases of management not firing an employee for theft, and therefore, it would be disparate treatment to fire another employee for the same reason. The same applies to just about every type of misconduct on a federal employee's part.

Public Unions should be abolished. Private Sector Unions are another story.