VA Committee chair criticizes Obama Administration
The other day I wrote about the Veterans’ Affairs Department notifying over 1800 veterans that they might have been infected by a hospital’s failure to sterilize dental instruments properly. Yesterday, in The Hill, Russell Berman writes that the Democrat chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.) got a little heated about it, too.
Filner criticized the administration for taking more than three months to send out the letters after it discovered the faulty safety precautions in March. “We should be much more caring not only about the procedures but the way we deal with them after they’re known,” the congressman said. He said it was “disgraceful” that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki did not know about the lapse until last week.
Filner said the “only way you can get accountability is if there is someone who actually pays a price for this….”
Good bye,Eric. The door’s over there on the wall. Shinseki, the director of the DVA has proven that he’s an incompetent boob over the last year and a half. Remember the flap over the new GI Bill payments that were delayed because the VA could tell their assholes from their elbows? Filner is right – someone has to pay for this incompetence – I say fire Shinseki and just for GPs, throw out Brandon Friedman, Tammy Duckworth and Kayla Williams.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Veteran Health Care
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Administrations come and go, but the BUREAUCRACY is forever. This is why I kind of chuckle to myself when I hear the, “Throw them all out!” mentality–sure, it might FEEL good, but it does nothing to root out the entrenched sloth in DC and government everywhere.
Maybe the DVA can get everyone black berets as a benifit…
NHSparky, Agree completely. Until we seriously clean up the bureaucracy and get rid of some of the over funded departments we will continue to see the same kind of bullshit. We have so many high grade civil servants that sit around all day and produce nothing. People have gotten upset over some of the remarks Sharron Angle has made about eliminating the Department of Education and other agencies, but she has a very valid point. Why do we need the DEA when they can’t stop the flow of drugs into the country. I’m just saying we need a completely independent look into how efficient the government is, sort of on the lines of the Grace Commission from the eighties. How many of these departments have jobs that overlap with others. Anyway, sorry to vent, the stupidity of the government gets worse as I get older.
Come on Jonn, shouldn’t we get rid of Filner too, he has a (D) at the end of his name.
I was hopeful when Shinseki was appointed, but he’s been such a disappointment. Let’s kick him our and put McCrystal in charge… he needs a job, right?
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