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In reply to the discussion: Eric Shinseki is out of a job today because... [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)I said you can't blame the GOP until after knowing the actual wait times, they refuse the funding. When the next funding bill comes up, and they now knowing the actual wait times and the truth about the VA situation, they say no, then you can say they are heartless bastards about the care of our Veterans. Until then, you appear to be nothing but a partisan hack for trying to blame them for this.
Secretary Shinseki provided the information to Congress. It remains to be seen if he knew or suspected that the information was false. But the false information was carried by him to Congress, or transmitted to congress through him. The information was wrong.
It is doubtful that the problem exists only in Arizona. Or only in "Red States" as someone else tried to point out. Trying to make this a club to beat the GOP is going to backfire terribly. The peasants are headed to the castle with pitchforks and torches. Trying to point out that they should slide by certain houses and burn them down on the way isn't going to work. You can join them, or you can stand by and watch. Those are your two choices. Nobody is going to view this as a purely GOP, or DNC scandal. There is plenty of blame to go around, which is why the Democrats had joined the Republicans in calling on Shinseki to resign.
Stop trying to view this is a way to blast the GOP and hurt them in the election. Because the GOP answer will hurt us far more.