What will it take for Obama to fire Simpson and disband Catfood Commission?

[IndianaGreen]

Aging vets' costs concern Obama's deficit co-chair

Source: Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. — The system that automatically awards disability benefits to some veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange seems contrary to efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission said Tuesday.

Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson's comments came a day after The Associated Press reported that diabetes has become the most frequently compensated ailment among Vietnam veterans, even though decades of research has failed to find more than a possible link between the defoliant Agent Orange and diabetes.

"The irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way, not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess," said Simpson, an Army veteran who was once chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has also allowed Vietnam veterans to get money for ailments such as lung cancer and prostate cancer, and the agency finalized a proposal Tuesday to grant payments for heart disease — the nation's leading cause of death.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i51binYNGhTWqS0oMMp8itl20ZjgD9HUMB4G0

What will it take for Obama to fire Simpson and disband Catfood Commission?

Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.

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You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6444 /

The Army-McCarthy Hearings
Special Counsel for the Army Joseph N. Welch addressing Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI).

[Mika]

1. A revolution by the majority to eject/reject the economic royalists!

:hi:

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[villager]

2. +1

n/t

[valerief]

3. Old people die. One can only hope nature takes its course. nt

[indepat]

4. Welch's rebuke of Senator McCarthy would be much too kind for Simpson imo

or any of his ilk. :P

[msongs]

5. he decides to become a progressive democrat? hmm nt

[jeanpalmer]

6. Simpson is his point man

He'll never be fired. He's doing exactly what Obama wants him to do. It's not as if he wasn't aware of Simpson's opposition to SS. If he wasn't serious in appointing Simpson, was it just a political ruse? Either way, ....

[zipplewrath]

7. Miracle

An absolute effing miracle.