Did Obama Take a Pay Cut as He Promised to do?

Breaking: It was revealed today that the White House has sets of books, one where they fired Shinseki, and one where they didn't.

But on a more serious note, the House today voted to give the head of the VA power to fire and discipline the bosses that were falsifying records. Think Harry Reid will let the Senate vote on it?

Do you think John Boehner will allow the House to vote to increase funding for medical care for military veterans?

Did the vote happen but it went down in flames?

Something the Dog Said wrote: Do you think John Boehner will allow the House to vote to increase funding for medical care for military veterans?

Do you think whoever writes the bill funding the medical care for veterans will be smart enough to include a source of that funding, or just pass it off to the future debt like they do with everything else?

ScienceChic wrote: As usual, blunt and to the point with good insightful comments. Like 'em or not.

The VA Scandal, More Of The Same
by Jim Wright, Stonekettle Station
Friday, May 23, 2014

This is nothing new.

This kind of bureaucratic flimflam when it comes to taking care of veterans? It’s been going on for years, for decades, from one war to the next and all the timeless space in between. And it’s not confined to the Veterans Administration.

Yeah. That’s not outrage you see on our faces, and it sure isn’t surprise, it’s amused resignation. We’re used to it. We’re used to being left to die by bureaucrats and politicians and the American public.

After five years of an intransigent, deadlocked, do-nothing Congress who’d rather chase hysterical manufactured conspiracies and beat their fleshy chests in faux-patriotic fever, who’ll enthusiastically fork over hundreds of billions for fancy new jets and ships and tanks so long as that hardware is manufactured in their own districts, who drive past homeless needy vets every single day, and gleefully refuse to pass a veterans jobs bill or to fully fund veterans services in their own districts or any other, after five years of this capering self-serving congressional bullsh**, now you’re pissed off?

By all means, go ahead, America, knock yourself out. That’s great, it really is.

Ask yourself something, if Congress really cared about veterans, I mean if they were really as concerned as they purport to be, then why was this brought to the public’s attention via a half-assed tabloid news outfit like CNN instead of the House Armed Services Committee? How come they didn’t know?

There's lots more to read (I'm afraid if I post more, I'll have the bastard cat and/or zombie hordes unleashed upon me), click the link!

None of that is insightful. It is well known. The current issue is Obama knew, said a lot of pretty words and accomplished Jac.

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I suspect this thread is suffering from just a wee tad of topic drift; the OP had to do with Barry doing what he said he would do and it turns out he didn't do what he said he would do ( imagine my surprise!). That being said and observing the current state of the thread, Barry has a whole mouth full of words but it seems to me he isn't honest on any topic most of the time, he just says what will help his popularity and then doesn't do anything else while feigning anger and disgust at situations that he knew all about months in advance.

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Thinking back to 2008, it boggles my mind that a man who had the management skills to pinpoint people who weren't able to get out to vote down to the street address is now reduced to stating that he learns about issues going on in his own administration through the press just like you and me. Sorry, I have to call bovine excrement on that one! The POTUS gets briefed several times a day by his staff and they concentrate on issues that have to do with national security AND issues that effect the President's public image. Barry is talking and the lies are piling up but the sheep are pacified by the bread and circuses that the Gubment hands out, while it lasts...

Says it all, don't it?

After five years of an intransigent, deadlocked, do-nothing Congress who’d rather chase hysterical manufactured conspiracies and beat their fleshy chests in faux-patriotic fever, who’ll enthusiastically fork over hundreds of billions for fancy new jets and ships and tanks so long as that hardware is manufactured in their own districts, who drive past homeless needy vets every single day, and gleefully refuse to pass a veterans jobs bill or to fully fund veterans services in their own districts or any other, after five years of this capering self-serving congressional bullsh**, now you’re pissed off?

By all means, go ahead, America, knock yourself out. That’s great, it really is.

Ask yourself something, if Congress really cared about veterans, I mean if they were really as concerned as they purport to be, then why was this brought to the public’s attention via a half-assed tabloid news outfit like CNN instead of the House Armed Services Committee? How come they didn’t know?

Very thing I've been saying... Glad to know someone else has the same opinion...

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FredHayek wrote: Breaking: It was revealed today that the White House has sets of books, one where they fired Shinseki, and one where they didn't.

But on a more serious note, the House today voted to give the head of the VA power to fire and discipline the bosses that were falsifying records. Think Harry Reid will let the Senate vote on it?

Reid is too busy taking care of more important things. WAIT, is this harry or some other Reid?

"Events include 'How to be a Gentleman AND Get Laid' and 'Reid’s Negotiating Successful Threesomes."

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