Fast and Furious. Obamacare. Benghazi. The Veterans Administration. NSA spying. Spying on journalists. Legitimate FOIA request refusals. The IRS targeting of conservative groups. Subpoena refusals.
This is a list that grows day by day where some kind of malfeasance, be it unethical, possibly illegal or an example of just completely incompetence happens within this administration. No matter what happens or no matter what it is, nobody is ever held to account.
The President and people in his administration are always good at telling the public how angry and upset they are about something that happens on their watch. Eric Shinseki is the latest:
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said he was outraged and surprised at allegations of unnecessary deaths at the veterans’ hospital in Phoenix, but promised a full investigation.
“I am angry,” he told NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski Wednesday.
Shinseki, who is a Vietnam veteran, told NBC News he understood the outrage these claims triggered among veterans and on Capitol Hill.
So he’s “outraged” and “angry.” Know what he should be?
Resigned.
It doesn’t matter if he’s a good person. It doesn’t matter if he has tried to change things. It doesn’t matter if this went on without him knowing. He is the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and up to 40 patients may have died at VA hospitals awaiting care.
Not only did people die, but records were falsified to cover it up.
We now know that the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS did not originate in some office in Cincinnati with a few “rogue” agents, but in Washington DC. New emails released also show that a United States Senator — Carl Levin — was involved as well.
I should remind you that President Obama referred to the IRS targeting of conservative groups as “faux outrage.”
Even Jake Tapper is exasperated at what’s going on:
CNN’s Jake Tapper wants to know exactly what it would take for the Obama administration to fire Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki for deadly wait times at many VA hospitals.
“How many dead veterans do you need before somebody asks the question within the White House, ‘Maybe this isn’t the best steward of these veterans?’” Mr. Tapper asked White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Thursday. The question came after Mr. McDonough said that the Obama administration had increased funding for VA over the course of five years.
“The question Jake, is: ‘Are we doing everything we can every day to get the veterans the care and opportunities they deserve,” Mr. McDonough replied.
“But you’re not!” said Mr. Tapper.
The host of The Lead then referenced a letter from VA Affairs Chairman Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida, which was allegedly ignored by Obama administration in May of 2013. The Republican’s letter warned of an “alarming pattern” of patient care issues for veterans that needed to be addressed, but was reportedly met with “boiler plate” talking points by Secretary Shinseki’s office, Mr. Tapper said.
“This letter was sent a year ago and you guys ignored it,” said Mr. Tapper.
Boom.
When the usually mild mannered Jake Tapper is at a point where he cannot believe people still have jobs in light of such nonsense, then we have reached a tipping point.
The question now is whether or not Obama’s palace guards in the media will finally break free of their trance and start demanding some answers.
After nearly 6 years of this nonsense however, I am not encouraged. We shall see.