Joe Klein calls for Shinseki’s resignation
As I’ve said before, I’m no fan of Joe Klein, but lately, he’s been hitting on all cylinders in regards to the troops and the veterans. Today is no different. He criticizes Eric Shinseki – the guy I’ve been publicly criticizing for more than 12 years. I think it’s because he’s a complete dumbass who doesn’t have a clue as to why things do and don’t work, beginning with the Black Berets, oh so long ago. Klein is nicer;
When was the last time you saw Shinseki say or do anything in public? He is universally regarded as an exemplary man. But even his supporters say he’s old-school military, stoic, wary of the press. And his detractors, who are legion among the generation of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, say he lacks the creativity and leadership skills to deal with Veterans Affairs’ mind-boggling problems, like the 900,000 unprocessed disability cases. In any event, he has been in office for four years, and the problems our veterans face are worse than ever–and about to get still worse as the military demobilizes tens of thousands of additional troops in the next few years. It is time for him to step down.
To be sure, the problems are not all Shinseki’s fault. There’s been a lot of flag-waving and patriotic blather from politicians, but there’s also been a scandalous absence of action.
Klein left out the millions of dollars wasted on lavish parties disguised as “training” at the VA. The scads of phonies who we’ve uncovered who were drawing VA pensions. The hundreds of undiscovered phony POWs that the Department refuses to investigate. And there’s Joe Cryer who I’ve submitted to the VA as a phony no less than four times still drawing a pension for PTS on his non-existent mission into Libya. Not to mention the veterans who need help and just aren’t getting it from the VA. Every month, there seems to be a scandal about the VA losing thousands of veterans personally identifiable information or hundreds of veterans infected by a careless employee.
Earlier this month, when there was a rumor being passed around the internet about Veterans’ Affairs coming for our gun rights, did anyone hear anything from the VA? Nope they left it up to me and TSO to spread the word that they weren’t. Buy me a beer sometime and I’ll tell you the whole story.
Shinseki is captain of a rudderless ship careening around the oceans with no direction, and Klein is correct, he needs to go and a real leader needs to take the helm.
Category: Veterans' Affairs Department
Ah … Jonn,
I seem to remember the Chinese Black Berets as well. It was and indicator of things to come.
Someone who was a REMF “caught” PTSD (the new buzz word) and is “scared” gets precedence over a warrior wounded in combat.
And data on the effects from Desert Storm is hidden or “lost”.
Bizzaro world.
DEja vu all over again.
Vietnam vets are worthless turds, drunks, drug addicts and crazy. Agent Orange (dioxin) side effects are all in your mind.
Gulf War/Iraq/Afghanistan vets are worthless turds, drunks, drug addicts and crazy. Chemical side effects from undetermined substance are all in your mind.
I did see the VA talk about the gun issue. A good week after I saw it here and elsewhere.
@1, not all of them are Chinese-made, the one I got issued when i came back in was made in Canada! Shinseki was a through-and-through Clintonista in that day, now he’s nothing other than a dyed-in-the-wool 0baminista!!
I saw this yesterday, and was glad I wasn’t the only one out there calling for him to resign.
When the guy at the top is a useless idiot, the folks below aren’t going to be a helluva lot better in their effectiveness. No positive momentum in addressing these concerns should not require a resignation, his boss should be disgusted and remove him.
Once again one turd covers another….after a while it’s a nice big pile of turds and everyone can see it and smell it…but yet, it remains.
Personally, I say they need to shit-can the entirely of the upper echelon and hire former Admin-types from the military. That would employ vets AND would ensure paperwork got processed!
Hell is is a month shy of a year and the last thing I heard about my disability claim is that they need a certified copy of my DD-214 mailed to them from the certifying authority… I checked… the certifying authority is IN THE SAME ADDRESS AS WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE SENT!
Shinseki is the Carnival Cruise line of the VA !!!
The thing is, I can bet any one of us here could solve the problem and no on is listening. We don’t need assholes like Shineski. We. can. do. it. We just have to find the right person.
Sure wish the VA would join the 20th century, it is too much to ask them to join the 21st. Has it ever struck anyone as odd that with private insurance you can go into a medical treatment facility, they can take your insurance card and in a matter of minutes come back with the information on what kind of coverage you have, and if indeed you are eligible but the VA can’t determine it within 6 months?
It is a matter of planned inefficiency designed to keep a bunch of self important paid folks on the roles. Excuses at this time on the processing of claims is inexcusable. You turn this over to a private company, give 6 months to put the technology infrastructure in place and this backlog could be dwindled down significantly in about a week. I know because I work for just such a company and we handle millions, yes millions, of just such transactions a week. We even get graded by a federal oversight group and if we return too many false responses or our response time falls below a certain level, measured in seconds, we lose our accreditation. Just one more example of how rules apply to the little people outside of government.
Shinseki your a villan and a bad person. I mean to go on T.V. national T.V. and lie like that and then have the corrput and vile people phony dot orgs like DAV VFW and AMVET to back you up. The DAV is no good proven fact!! VFW no good hack money loosers!! AMVET Lucifers partners in VA vileness!! Resign shinseki or youll be forced out. One way or the other shinseki!! Resign grab your cash and all is well !! Be forced out and LOOOOOOOSE IT ALL!It’s your choice the VA’S Wheel of fortune you political con artist you cant do the job resign shinseki or youll looose your VA hack reitrement money and wind up in rags with the rest of us vets on the nickel in LA. HA HA HA HA resign shinseki be smart be wise their other political hack jobs oh boo zooo can put you in!!!Resgn shinseki resign now and enjoy life to the fullest with good liquor pussy up the butt ect ect be smart resign now shinseki!!!! enjoy the cash enjoy everything life has to offer you enjoy enjoy enjoy enjoy pleasure splendor expensive appliances all with ill gotten gains of the VA mint currency press enjoy oppulence and grandeur and a large federal dowery rivaled by no one shinseki resgin joe klein did an excellent job at exposing this fake liar!!!
Time to go indeed, Mr Shisenseki et all. Problem is VA’s union is more powerful than the will of 23 million disgusted veterans. Reality folks. Will take a bold act of congress to wash the executive filth fron VA’s current dysfunctional and corrupt fabric. But that is not likely anytime soon. Thank you for nothing supreme court justices. “Justices,” ha ha. What a contradiction. Not sure there is anymore to say on this one. Pretty simple. 1+1=2 people.