Eric K. Shinseki Faces His Responsibility

Years ago, on this very blog, I stated multiple times that the Veterans Administration hospitals did not deliver what they were supposed to. I sited my father's problems with the VA, as well as the problems two of my friends had.

I was summarily accosted by my liberal readers as citing only anecdotal information that did not represent any systemic problems. The VA, they said, did a good job and was a wonderful example of how the government could administer programs well.

When Eric K. Shinseki to the reigns of the VA, he led everyone to believe that the bureaucracy was functioning well and that he was going to make it even better. Its administration would be honest and open. Our veterans would be served well. Most of all, the VA would rise above the "depths" to which it had sunk under (who else?) George W. Bush. 

Eric K. Shinseki resigned Friday as secretary of veterans affairs, taking responsibility for a scandal in the VA health-care system over excessive waiting times and coverups of what he called “systemic” problems.

Let's assume that Shinseki did inherit a mess. We were told by President BO (the amateur president) that he would start us on the path to a better, more efficient, leaner, more streamlined VA. 

In order to make it better, Shinseki allowed waiting lists to be hidden, so that the appointment/treatment ratio would look better than it was (corrupt). He also refused to allow the states to reach out to VA hospitals to help them conform to state medical services standards.

In Florida, Governor Rick Scott has sued the federal government and the VA because not a single Florida VA hospital would allow the appropriate state personnel to offer assistance in meeting Florida standards. They would not allow inspectors to verify that the VA hospitals were meeting Florida standards. Every VA hospital in Florida refused to open their doors for either state inspection or state help.

Did Eric K. Shinseki simply not know that there were hidden waiting lists? Did he meet regularly with his administrators to determine that they were carrying out the duties with which they were charged?

He did not. But don't worry, everything was just fine. If you didn't believe it, just ask him.

Did Eric K. Shinseki know about the short-comings and just overlook them? If so, he was at best an inept administrator and at worst a lying thief of low character, accepting tax payer money and not doing his job.

Turns out that the difficulties at the VA were much deeper than anybody knew. And, as the risk of once again being ridiculed by my stupid liberal commenters, they obviously go deeper still.

In the end, the VA has shown more light on the inability or refusal of Obama to know what is going on in his administration.  Like Shinseki, he does not regularly meet with his administrators (the cabinet), does not involve himself with the presiding over the laws of the United States of America like he is supposed to. He did not preside well over Benghazi, over the U.S. Postal Service, over the NSA, over the IRS, over the Justice Department (think: Fast and Furious) or over ANY OTHER agency of government he is supposed to be leading. For good measure, brought us the largest number of unemployed job-needers in the history of the country and the largest number to ever drop out of the job seeking category. 

That he was elected in the first place (with zero experience at holding a job, let alone acting as a governmental leader) and was re-elected by the liberal voters of America is a testament to the rank stupidity of liberalism and the low information status of the average citizen.

You gave us the government you deserve, but not the one America needed.

Oh Yeah! The Carney resigned, too.

President Obama announced Friday that Jay Carney will step down as White House press secretary after more than three years and be replaced by his deputy Josh Earnest, who worked on the Obama campaign in 2008. Earnest Started out as Obama’s Iowa communications director in 2007. Earnest joined then-Sen. Obama’s campaign in March 2007 as communications director for Iowa.

Carney, the man who never learned to give a direct answer to a question, who lied constantly, who made illogical statements, who ridiculed press members who did not accept his warped agenda is gone.  

Not a moment too soon.

Does it look like the administration is completing its fall?