Mad as Hell.. no Madder.

[Lumpy 1]

Obama is "Madder than Hell" at his administration screwing over veterans on his watch...

Wow...

 

[buckeye45_73]

Has Jay Carney given his smart ass remark where he acts like he shouldn't be bothered with this?

 

[Iceweasel]

That's nice. But a lot of veterans are dead as hell. I don't blame Obama though, the VA has had some spotty performance for many years, it's about time it gets the full attention it deserves.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Has Jay Carney given his smart ass remark where he acts like he shouldn't be bothered with this?

Not that I know of but I've seen the blaming Bush scenario warming up..

 

[Rozman]

I wonder if Jay Carney can do his job as frontman for Obama for another 3 years?

 

[hortysir]

In 30 days this, too, will be another phony scandal

 

[waltky]

Where's Obama?...

American Legion: 'We Need the White House, the President to Come Forward'
May 19, 2014 -- "We realize that the administration has done a lot for the veterans, but that isn't the issue," American Legion National Commander Daniel Dellinger told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

Dellinger said the long wait for veterans to get medical care is an "ongoing problem" that President Obama must address personally: "We need the White House, the president to come forward. He needs to make a statement, to show the employees of VA that this needs to change, now. One death is tragic, but when you hide it, that's unforgivable." It's been three weeks since CNN reported that at least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system, many of whom were placed on a secret list to hide the long waiting times. And over the weekend, the Dayton Daily News reported that the government has paid out more than $34 million to numerous veterans who claimed delays in treatment.

President Obama has not talked about the scandal, but he did send one of his top advisers to speak for him: “The president is madder than hell, and I’ve got the scars to prove it, given the briefings I’ve given the president,” White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told CBS News White House Correspondent Major Garrett. The interview aired Sunday on “Face the Nation.” “Nobody is more outraged about this problem, right now, Major, than the president of the United States,” McDonough added.

Dellinger said the recent news reports about long waiting times and veterans' deaths point to "egregious mismanagement" of the VA. He said Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki should display the same leadership at the VA that he showed in the military. "And it just hasn't happened. The accountability has not been there," Dellinger said. Dellinger said "cultural change is necessary" at the VA, and he specifically complained about VA employees getting bonuses "just for doing their job." He has called for Shinseki's resignation, citing "poor oversight and failed leadership."

President Obama, in his weekly radio address on Saturday, talked about going around Congress to get things done, but he said nothing about veterans. Speaking for Republicans, however, Sen. John McCain in his Saturday radio address urged Congress to give VA administrators "greater flexibility to hire and fire those charge with caring for our veterans." McCain also said veterans "have earned the right to choose where and when they get their medical care." McCain said the way the nation cares for veterans "is the most important test of a nation's character. The U.S. is currently "failing that test," he added. "We must do better tomorrow -- much better."

American Legion: 'We Need the White House, the President to Come Forward' | CNS News

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Obama Outraged by Veterans Hospitals Conduct, Aide Says
May 18, 2014 President Barack Obama is “madder than hell” about reports of U.S. veterans dying while awaiting health care and allegations that hospitals may have altered records to hide lengthy delays, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said.

“Nobody is more outraged about this problem right now” than Obama, McDonough said in an interview broadcast today on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program. “And he will continue to press, as it relates to this question of timely access to care, until it is fixed.” Veterans Affairs Inspector General Richard J. Griffin told a Senate committee last week he is investigating allegations that as many as 40 veterans died while awaiting care at a Phoenix hospital. He is trying to determine if the deaths were related to the delays and whether the hospital’s electronic wait list purposely omitted some names.

The American Legion and some congressional Republicans have been calling for the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki since CNN first ran a report last month about the deaths and wait times at the Phoenix hospital. “We need the White House, the president, to come forward,” Daniel Dellinger, national commander of the American Legion, told CBS. “He needs to make a statement, to show the employees of the VA that this needs to change now.” The Veterans Health Administration operates the largest health-care system in the U.S., serving about 8.8 million patients annually at more than 1,700 hospitals, clinics and other facilities, according to the department’s website.

Wait Times

“They were advertising waiting times of 30 to 55 days, when in fact they were more like six to seven months,” said Sam Foote, a retired doctor who worked at a VA facility in Phoenix and disclosed some of the problems. “We never said that they died because of this,” Foote said on “Fox News Sunday” today. “We just made the point that at least 40 veterans, we felt, had died while waiting for care and these needed to be reviewed.” Robert Petzel, the VA undersecretary for health, resigned last week, though he had been scheduled to retire sometime this year. Obama assigned Deputy Chief of Staff Rob Nabors to work on a review of patient-safety rules, the Associated Press reported. “This has gone from incompetence and a backlog to something criminal,” said Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican and Iraq war veteran who spoke on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program today. “I think it’s time for Shinseki to resign.”

Inspiring Change

McDonough was asked on CBS whether Shinseki, a retired four-star Army general, retains Obama’s confidence. “The president will continue to demand that he and all of us who work for him continue to fix these things until they are functioning the way that our veterans believe they should,” McDonough said in the interview, which was recorded May 16 and aired today. Ryan Gallucci, deputy director for national legislative service at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said his organization has “been screaming about this for years, about wait times.” “We hope that the attention that’s really come to this in the last couple of weeks will finally inspire significant change,” Gallucci said on Fox.

Obama Outraged by Veterans Hospitals Conduct, Aide Says - Bloomberg

 

[The T]

That's nice. But a lot of veterans are dead as hell. I don't blame Obama though, the VA has had some spotty performance for many years, it's about time it gets the full attention it deserves.

And never mind he's been in charge for five years and was on the Veterans Affairs Committee when he was in the Senate...

Now if he become equally madder than Hell at cutting the Military to the bone?

 

[Lumpy 1]

Obama likes to have screw-ups in his administration around to take the spotlight off him and his dismal performance...

No Administration official moves on until they no longer serve that purpose.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

That's nice. But a lot of veterans are dead as hell. I don't blame Obama though, the VA has had some spotty performance for many years, it's about time it gets the full attention it deserves.

And never mind he's been in charge for five years and was on the Veterans Affairs Committee when he was in the Senate...

Now if he become equally madder than Hell at cutting the Military to the bone?

Bone? It's 20% of the Federal Budget. So is Social Security.

 

[The T]

That's nice. But a lot of veterans are dead as hell. I don't blame Obama though, the VA has had some spotty performance for many years, it's about time it gets the full attention it deserves.

And never mind he's been in charge for five years and was on the Veterans Affairs Committee when he was in the Senate...

Now if he become equally madder than Hell at cutting the Military to the bone?

Bone? It's 20% of the Federal Budget. So is Social Security.

And MANDATED by the US Constitution...is WELARE, you twit?

 

[1776]

"What difference does it make.....this is like a couple years ago, Dude."

 

[dilloduck]

Horseshit---I'll believe he's REALLY mad when he hashtags someone.

 

[The Rabbi]

IT's like someone else has been president for 5 years. Why isn't he ashamed? Embarrassed?

 

[Big Black Dog]

He'll do about as much about it as he did with the IRS scandal...

 

[depotoo]

I wonder if Jay Carney can do his job as frontman for Obama for another 3 years?

He must have been promised something good to be able to make it this long.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

This much incompetence on dispay is truly a spectacle to behold.

 

[HelenaHandbag]

I wonder if he is mad as hell about this as he was when he was told of this in 2009, or even madder than hellier than he was then?

 

[Lumpy 1]

I wonder if he is mad as hell about this as he was when he was told of this in 2009, or even madder than hellier than he was then?

I figure he's supplying his non-critical thinkers with yet another (not really) plausable excuse for failure..

 

[whitehall]

The shit this guy gets away with is incredible. The cover-up used to be worse than the crime. Nixon only had Watergate to deal with. Would it have done any good if he said he was "mad as hell"? Barry Hussein is dealing with a dozen cover-ups and the mainstream media is so disinterested that small newspapers are independently doing what Woodie and Bernie used to do. The Dayton Ohio Daily News uncovered the VA scandal.