Zam-Zam
Senator
It's hard to imagine a President who has less of a clue as to what's going on in his administration that this one:
Former president George W. Bush once said, rather proudly, that he didn’t read newspapers.
President Obama, a confirmed newsie, has claimed to read the major papers, perhaps to learn what’s going on in his own administration.
Latest to the list of presidential discoveries, thanks to the dailies, is the horrific news that the Department of Veterans Affairs has kept secret lists of veterans waiting for treatment. Some have died during the wait.
In a world of faux outrage, finally we have something about which to be scandalized. It is hard to imagine leaving our veterans to wither and die after they’ve survived enemy fire and war. As we celebrate Memorial Day weekend, it must be particularly painful for the families of those who never reached the top of the list.
The deepest cut is knowing that the president, who as a candidate promised that veterans’ care would be among his highest priorities, hasn’t burdened himself with keeping this promise.
Instead, we learn that Obama knows more or less what every newspaper-reading American knows. Does he also do more or less what Americans do in response? Shake his head, cluck his tongue and then turn the page?
The president didn’t know, for instance, how badly things were going over at the Department of Health and Human Services preceding the dramatic non-rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
In other breaking news, Obama was surprised to learn that the Internal Revenue Service was paying special attention to conservative groups.
And, who, by the way, knew whatever was going on in Benghazi that horrific night? Not to pound the Republican drum, which too often sounds like a car alarm, but was the administration’s first impulse really to call YouTube?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...2bc28a-e2b4-11e3-8dcc-d6b7fede081a_story.html
There's a pattern here.......
Former president George W. Bush once said, rather proudly, that he didn’t read newspapers.
President Obama, a confirmed newsie, has claimed to read the major papers, perhaps to learn what’s going on in his own administration.
Latest to the list of presidential discoveries, thanks to the dailies, is the horrific news that the Department of Veterans Affairs has kept secret lists of veterans waiting for treatment. Some have died during the wait.
In a world of faux outrage, finally we have something about which to be scandalized. It is hard to imagine leaving our veterans to wither and die after they’ve survived enemy fire and war. As we celebrate Memorial Day weekend, it must be particularly painful for the families of those who never reached the top of the list.
The deepest cut is knowing that the president, who as a candidate promised that veterans’ care would be among his highest priorities, hasn’t burdened himself with keeping this promise.
Instead, we learn that Obama knows more or less what every newspaper-reading American knows. Does he also do more or less what Americans do in response? Shake his head, cluck his tongue and then turn the page?
The president didn’t know, for instance, how badly things were going over at the Department of Health and Human Services preceding the dramatic non-rollout of the Affordable Care Act.
In other breaking news, Obama was surprised to learn that the Internal Revenue Service was paying special attention to conservative groups.
And, who, by the way, knew whatever was going on in Benghazi that horrific night? Not to pound the Republican drum, which too often sounds like a car alarm, but was the administration’s first impulse really to call YouTube?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...2bc28a-e2b4-11e3-8dcc-d6b7fede081a_story.html
There's a pattern here.......
