(2007-03-05) — Democrat presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton today decried the allegedly poor conditions, stifling bureaucracy and negligent care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and throughout the VA healthcare system, but added, “Just think how bad it would be if it weren’t a government run system.”
As military patients and their spouses testified before a Senate panel about vermin-infested, moldy rooms, neglect and miles of red tape, Sen. Clinton told reporters, “This crisis serves only to highlight our desperate need for a tax-funded, government-managed universal healthcare system for all Americans.”
“When I’m president,” she said, “I’ll give the average American the same excellent quality of care we now provide for our nation’s heroes…but without the rats, mold and bureaucracy. I’ll sign legislation outlawing that kind of inefficiency, mismanagement and public employee apathy.”
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1 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 8:11 pm
And just think how much better the Postal System would be if the government was still running it, too.
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 5, 2007 at 8:26 pm
God Bless America!
3 Bill's Bites // Mar 5, 2007 at 8:39 pm
“Walter Reed Highlights Need for Universal Healthcare”…
Newsflash: Government-run health care sucks Michelle Malkin The Washington Post is back today with another story about the pitfalls of the military health care system. Like I said when the WaPo series was launched, these failures are damnable-and noth…
4 PreventTruthDecay // Mar 5, 2007 at 8:45 pm
75% tax brackets can fix anything. Even moldy, rat infested healthcare systems.
5 Right Mind : Walter Reed Highlights Need for Universal Healthcare // Mar 5, 2007 at 8:52 pm
[...] From Scott Ott over at Scrapple Face: [...]
6 Fred Sinclair // Mar 5, 2007 at 9:04 pm
So far I’ve only heard of one Government Agency that has never had even a whiff of scandal, graft, corruption, etc. and that is the U.S. Patent Office - perhaps it could be they’re doing something right?
Whatever it is, they’ve probably got it patented. Now, if only that Director could be assigned to teaching classes to all of the other Directors - the VA; CIA; FBI; IRS; DNR; AT&F; State Department, etc., etc. on how it’s done, some order and efficiency could result.
Heirborn Ranger
7 Rock Slatestone // Mar 5, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Politics is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get.
8 Darthmeister // Mar 5, 2007 at 11:04 pm
EDWARDS: JESUS WOULD BE ‘APPALLED’ BY AMERICAN SELFISHNESS…
I guess Edwards would know.
OBAMA’S SPEECH: DOES FATHERHOOD BEGIN AT ‘CONCEPTION’?
Obama’s now pro-life? The culture of death will straighten him out and we’ll soon be hearing a “clarification” … like, fatherhood really begins at birth.
Libby Jury Ends Day With More Questions…
C’mon already. We know this is a he-said-she-said case based on both Libby’s and journalists’ flawed memories. Besides, it was the anti-war State Department hack Dick Armitage who first “outted” Valerie Plame though she wasn’t even a covert agent! But don’t confuse hate-Bush liberals who want their pound of flesh with these facts.
‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ Set to Rock Climate Debate…
Can’t wait. I’m sick and tired of hearing the false prophets of Global Warmism trying to get into our wallets.
9 da Bunny // Mar 5, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Ah, yes…Senator Mrs. Bill Clinton…higher taxes and centralized government control over a dumbed-down citizenry are her answers for everything.
10 camojack // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:36 am
Hillary for runner-up in ‘08!!!
11 camojack // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:37 am
Or should I say Hi11ary?!
12 mig // Mar 6, 2007 at 4:10 am
Ah- Jack is back!
Can’t sleep so I am reading a Micheal Yon piece. Wanted to give a shout out to Scrapplers: “Low morale in a particular unit can be the result … just not getting mail, for instance. “ So get out the pen, it is something we can do to help. We may not be able to physically go to Walter Reed and clean up the place but we can write letters.
I Love America Day is a celebration of LOVE for the United States of America. Flags Across The Nation established the first I Love America Day in 2006.
13 mig // Mar 6, 2007 at 4:16 am
Here is a good list of things that can be sent to soldiers.
14 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 5:48 am
Fourteenth!
Hmmmmm, doesn’t have quite the ring of camo’s eleventeenth.
Can’t wait for sHrillary Care to kick in. Instead of getting the operation we need within the week, under sHrillary Care we’ll be given three to six months to make sure that operation is really what we want like they do in Canada and England. Can’t rush into these things ya’ know.
15 MargeinMI // Mar 6, 2007 at 6:00 am
I’da checked in earlier if I’da known there were early birds about.
Outlaw inefficiency, apathy and mismanagement? That’s the ticket!
16 RedPepper // Mar 6, 2007 at 6:40 am
I’m beginning to think that Hillary’s presidential ambitions are headed for the intensive care unit! She cannot handle the continuing Democrat infatuation with Obama. It’s gonna be a hoot to watch.
17 MargeinMI // Mar 6, 2007 at 7:26 am
I agree, Red. I can’t wait for the Hildebeast’s jump the shark moment. I hope it’s big and involves Bill somehow!
heehee
18 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 7:28 am
RedPepper,
It’s really going to get interesting when the Clinton Machine of Personal Destruction starts getting up to speed. That probably won’t happen until Obama’s numbers get closer to sHrillary’s. If the CMPD can hold its fire nearer to election time, it will be even more devastating and effective, but if the popularity gap continues to close then the Clinton goons have to go into action sooner.
But its my present theory this dynamic may point out the undercurrent of racism which is historical in the Democratic Party. Sure the white Democratic establishment has pandered to the black community, but it did so only to monopolize black America’s voting bloc. Maybe I’m being too cynical by half, but if I’m not mistaken Democratic policies have done more to break up black families in America than anything Republicans could maliciously do. Policies like welfare entitlements and affirmative action. Sometimes well-intentioned aid can be the worst poison to those who are striving for respectable self-sufficiency.
If the Clinton Machine does utterly destroy Obama - like it did another African American when it installed Howard Dean as the leader of the DNC - this will have some interesting consequences for the Copperhead Party this coming election. But if the CMPD fails and Obama is nominated, it may be a question of whether some Democrats will not vote for him because of their own deep-seated racism or because they believe him to be merely a charismatic but inexperienced gadfly who could bring this country to ruin. We’ll never know, but in either case, in my estimation, Barack Obama has demonstrated to me he has neither the character (given his multiple lies already) nor the experience to be a President and I hope the rest of America doesn’t swallow Obama’s Kool-aidâ„¢ before November 2008 either.
19 gafisher // Mar 6, 2007 at 8:03 am
I wonder if Hillary tried to hold the Mayo as an example. Reminds me of an old advertising jingle; how about “HillaryCare: Have It
Your Way.”20 gafisher // Mar 6, 2007 at 8:13 am
Fred Re:#6 — are you kidding? How about the 500mpg carburetor, the antigravity machines, and all those perpetual motion devices the USPTO has suppressed?
21 TouchyFeely // Mar 6, 2007 at 8:17 am
One of the biggest problems with government run institutions (post offices and schools. for example) and unionized companies is that you can’t fire bad employees without a mountain of red tape. In fact, the recent “firing” of the yahoo running this outfit was the only time I can remember a govt employee leaving their job. Remember the INS director who let his “service” go to hell?
If they aren’t worried about losing their job, they don’t give a damn whether they do it properly or efficiently. Teh taxpayers foot the bill, of course.
22 alazycowboy.com » Blog Archive » Walter Reed Highlights Need for Universal Healthcare // Mar 6, 2007 at 8:50 am
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23 Just Ranting // Mar 6, 2007 at 8:54 am
One only needs to look at the condition of our schools to see how inept our government is at running things. In a community close to me in PA a middle school principle was arrested a few days ago for using and selling drugs from his office. When the police broke into his office to arrest him he was sans-clothing watching gay porn. Apparently he had been a no-show principle most of the time, and when he was there he was behind a locked door. The fact that he was anywhere near children is an outrage. Teachers received no leadership from him (thankfully), but they must have known what was going on. Recent letters to the editor from students and family friends supporting this soon-to-be felon boggle my mind. I can’t understand why this story hasn’t received national attention. It illustrates again that our schools are not serving our students’ best interests, and that government in general is incapable of running anything efficiently (patent office possibly excluded).
24 seneuba // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:03 am
Hillary wants to control the rats? I thought that job was currently held by Howard Dean.
25 seneuba // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:08 am
Rock #7:
If politics is like a box of chocolates, maybe that explains why the DNC is filled with fruits and nuts…
26 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:12 am
The annoying (to me, a pathological obsessive/compulsive maniac), oft-used phrase, “Close enough for government work,” is not myth-based.
27 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:28 am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is facing a full-blown revolt from liberal House Democrats over the $98 billion Iraq supplemental bill, according to Democratic insiders. Anywhere between 50 to 75 Democrats are now threatening to vote against the bill because it doesn’t go far enough toward ending the war, including setting a date certain for withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq, said the sources. Pelosi and Democratic leaders are expected to postpone markup of the Iraq bill in the House Appropriations Committee by at least a week in order to buy time to resolve the matter.
Gee, that’s too bad. Kind of puts Nancy Pelousi between a rock and a hard spot …………buwahahahahaha! And what have the liberal Dhimmiecritters done in the last six weeks since they ambitiously took over Congress? (crickets chirping)
28 Shelly // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:29 am
I haven’t noticed, what accent does she use when she talks about destroying healthcare in this country?
29 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:34 am
Been holding your breath folks? It’s coming…wait for it…
30 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:38 am
Honor the troops!
Schmucks!
31 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:39 am
Who pointed out longgggg before any “story” “broke” that conditions sucked at veterans hospitals?
Honor the troops!
Schmucks!
32 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:40 am
Who was roundly dismissed for such assertions by nearly everyone here?
Honor the troops!
Schmucks!
33 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:41 am
Who pointed out the “real” cost of the war long ago (note: the main “cost” I associated with it was post combat care) and was again roundly derided???
Honor the troops!
Schmucks!
34 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:41 am
Thanks for the opening Scott…
Honor the troops!
Schmucks!
35 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:43 am
Oddly, being the only one that was even close to “right” about how this administration viewed the troops does not make me feel one whit better about how “lip service” is just not enough…
Honor the troops!
Schmucks!
36 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:44 am
Now some of the “true costs” will start to dawn. Perhaps this is all Clintons fault
Honor the troops!
Schmucks!
37 conserve-a-tips // Mar 6, 2007 at 10:18 am
boberin, I hate to tell you, but the problem with the army hospitals has been around for a long time. My grandfather was a research scientist at Walter Reed back in the 60’s and there were awful problems then. My father-in-law has been going to the VA hospital here for years and my son worked there and the stories they tell are hair-raising. The fact is, this country has never truly honored its armed services personnel. My father was in the army in Germany during WWII and is bitter about the treatment that he got as an “enlisted man” coming home. So, crow all you want, but I think that it is interesting that - under this administration - the focus has FINALLY come to bear on the how our young country treats our young and old men, alike, in the service. Maybe something will actually get done about it. Unfortunately, liberals like you, will still look on these boys as Shmucks who got coerced into being noble.
38 conserve-a-tips // Mar 6, 2007 at 10:30 am
How interesting…the President just said that the Government’s primary function is to protect the citizens….(not provide health care or housing or food stamps or etc or collect income taxes) What a concept. Maybe if the government would focus solely on their true purpose as laid out in the Constitution, we’d have an armed forces structure that would be fully funded and efficient, while the rest of us would be picking up the responsibility of helping our neighbors like it should be. As I said…what a concept.
39 Shelly // Mar 6, 2007 at 10:44 am
Bob, if you want to know how Clinton treated the military stop by the library and get a copy of “Dereliction of Duty” or “Reckless Disregard”, both by Robert Patterson, a man who carried the “football” during Clinton’s presidency and saw firsthand how the military was treated, including his refusing to follow basic protocols of respect for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
40 tomg // Mar 6, 2007 at 10:47 am
Last week Cassandra posted money spent on defense and social services, 1956 and 2006. Defence went from 57% to 19%, and SS from 21% to 59%.
http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/
The charts, and more, are a good ways down in her blog, but still visible.
41 tomg // Mar 6, 2007 at 10:49 am
Weird - my fingers ‘went English” on me with the second defense. Sorry.
42 tomg // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:14 am
Came across this via a link from someone’s blog a few days ago - tracking incidents worldwide.
http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
Just in case your newspaper doesn’t tell you everything
43 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:33 am
boberin, care to post any of our comments where we dismissed your accusations about bureaucratic screw ups at Walter Reed? Thousands of American soldiers received good treatment at Walter Reed, we’re now hearing about the screw-ups. My country right or wrong, and when wrong make it right. Too bad you only crow about the failures, bober. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
This is an institutional problem that goes way back to the Clinton budget cuts (remember the “peace dividend”?) that you libs embraced and now have to be overcome by the Bush Administration AND Congress. And you want to blame Scrapplers for it? Nice try.
And it doesn’t help that Walter Reed has already been earmarked by Congress for closure - the same Congress which is wringing its collective hands over sub-standard care. But isn’t that what you libs are always whining about, cutting military spending and taking that money and shoving it down the black hole of welfare entitlements for those far less deserving than the American soldier?
What I find even more disgusting is how the Clinton regime created a subtle anti-military political environment which permeated Congress during his administration that WE HAD AMERICAN SOLDIERS LIVING ON FOOD STAMPS while the Pentagon, prodded by the Clinton administration spent billions to “re-equip ships and barracks to accommodate co-ed living. All these efforts further reduced the Pentagon’s ability to put a fighting force in the field!”
When it comes to the conduct of war and the treatment of the American warriors, this is how Democrats failed this country and its soldiers.
Remember this next time some Dhimmiecratic (or RINO) starts whining about the need to cut the military’s “bloated” budget because it will damn sure come back to haunt YOU, bober.
44 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:57 am
Hank, I was certain that you could blame Clinton and you do not dissapoint….thanks for the “constant” in my life
Honor the troops!!!!!
Yeah, right……….
45 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 11:59 am
Walter Reed is the BEST of the bunch. And if I knew things sucked why did it never occur to our “Commander in Cheif” to see how HIS troops were being treated?
He did not care, his “honor” of the troops is the sham that I’ve always said it was, huge surprise!
46 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Honor the troops!!!!
This had better replace the lame “God Bless America” first post habit around here. It’s only fitting
47 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:05 pm
And factcheck.org debunks earlier liberal claims that President Bush was cutting veterans and VA benefits.
I don’t know what more the Bush Administration can do other than personally provide medical care at Walter Reed. This is the Pentagon’s and Congress’ baby, they’re the ones with direct oversight. And something is being done and those responsible will either take responsibility and/or be disgraced.
And how many times did John Kerry, sHrillary, or any other presently “outraged” Dhimmiecrat walk through Walter Reed for their photo-op and not see the problem for themselves? Even Rush Limbaugh said several days ago on his show when he visited Walter Reed he asked every soldier he met if they were getting enough treatment and support and he said without exception every soldier said he/she found nothing lacking in their care at Walter Reed.
I guess bober would have us read minds or believe every shrill “report” from Bush-haters on left-wing blogs. If they wouldn’t lie, blame-America and cry wolf so much, maybe these liberal “news sources” would have more credibility and maybe you would too, bober … ya think?
48 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:08 pm
And it’s good to see you didn’t disappoint us when you blamed Bush, bober. Knew you would. But at least my point is backed up by facts and not stupid, self-serving opinionated rants like you’re engaging in.
49 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:12 pm
And bober, given your consistent shrill, juvenile, reckless pathological hatred for President Bush, I can almost see how one man can grow to hate the fingernail-on-black board attitude of another. Congratulations, you smarmy little self-righteous troll, your almost accomplishing the impossible with me. Grow up.
50 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Thanks Hank, high praise indeed
Honor the troops!
51 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Story Highlights• Bush budget assumes cuts in veterans’ health care in 2009, 2010
• VA medical care costs have risen yearly for 20 years
• Number of veterans from Iraq, Afghanistan expected to increase 26 percent
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration’s budget assumes cuts to veterans’ health care two years from now — even as badly wounded troops returning from Iraq could overwhelm the system.
Bush is using the cuts, critics say, to help fulfill his pledge to balance the budget by 2012. But even administration allies say the numbers are not real and are being used to make the overall budget picture look better.
After an increase sought for next year, the Bush budget would turn current trends on their head. Even though the cost of providing medical care to veterans has been growing rapidly — by more than 10 percent in many years — White House budget documents assume consecutive cutbacks in 2009 and 2010 and a freeze thereafter.
The proposed cuts are unrealistic in light of recent VA budget trends — its medical care budget has risen every year for two decades and 83 percent in the six years since Bush took office — sowing suspicion that the White House is simply making them up to make its long-term deficit figures look better.
“Either the administration is willingly proposing massive cuts in VA health care,” said Rep. Chet Edwards of Texas, chairman of the panel overseeing the VA’s budget. “Or its promise of a balanced budget by 2012 is based on completely unrealistic assumptions.”
A spokesman for Larry Craig, R-Idaho, the top Republican
52 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Indignities Endured by U.S. Military Veterans
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
“I believe that our laws must reflect our gratitude to the men and women who so valiantly served our nation in battle. But to many veterans, it seems like they are remembered in Washington only on Veterans Day. Speeches are all well and good, but daily advocacy is needed too in such issues as health care and compensation claims.”
Prior to the 2000 presidential election, President Bush outlined his views on issues affecting veterans. Some of his comments, like the one above from a campaign position paper, have been archived by Disabled American Veterans Magazine.
Today it’s clear to many veterans that the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress think of them on other days of the year besides Veterans Day. They’re thinking of veterans as they work to cut off VA healthcare. They’re thinking of veterans when they refuse to address lingering health problems from the first Gulf War. They’re thinking of veterans when they block full retirement and disability benefits. And they’re thinking of veterans when Bush decides, yet again, not to attend a solider’s funeral or pay a visit to those who are recovering from injuries at Walter Reed Army Medical Center just a few miles from the White House.
All that thinking has only hurt veterans of this country. Obviously, they deserve much better. And they deserve our full support.
BuzzFlash is committed to revealing the numerous ways in which Bush has gone back on his pledge to be an advocate for veterans. Excerpts from news stories, editorials and speeches detailing Bush’s and Congress’ actions are provided here. New articles will be added periodically. Please send articles on how the Bush administration is betraying our veterans to: BuzzFlash@BuzzFlash.com
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53 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Veterans’ Panels Seek Higher Funding
WASHINGTON—Funding for veterans health care would rise to $37.1 billion in fiscal year 2008, under recommendations from Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Democrats. That is $2.9 billion above the President’s request, and $4.8 billion higher than the current level.
“Time and again when Democrats were in the minority, they vowed to provide adequate funding for veterans health care if they were to regain control of Congress,†said Disabled American Veterans National Commander Bradley S. Barton. “Now that Democrats have the majority in Congress, it is heartening that some are willing to live up to that commitment.â€
54 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Pentagon Urged to Move Walter Reed Patients to VA Facilities Closer to Home
WASHINGTON—The Disabled American Veterans (DAV) has called upon Defense Secretary Robert Gates to take immediate action to provide decent, sanitary housing for recuperating soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and to consider moving them to Department of Veterans Affairs facilities closer to their homes.
In a forceful letter to Secretary Gates, DAV National Commander Bradley S. Barton expressed the organization’s concerns raised in articles published by the Washington Post about the appalling living conditions for wounded veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan while they undergo outpatient care and discharge and medical retirement out-processing at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The articles document benign neglect affecting hundreds, and over time, thousands, of soldiers at what has often been touted as the Army’s premier medical treatment facility.
“If the Defense Department can’t or won’t provide our injured soldiers with the decent living conditions they need and deserve, they should be given the option of moving to VA facilities closer to their homes where they can receive top-notch health care and rehabilitation services that will improve their quality of life,†said Commander Barton.
55 boberinyetagain // Mar 6, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Today the House of Representatives will vote on a resolution that if passed will devastate the Veterans Administration’s budget and severely reduce its medical, disability, and benefit programs. On the verge of war in Iraq, the Republican Paty has placed in its cross-hairs American veterans from earlier wars.
The Republican majority of the House Budget Committee is reducing President Bush’s proposed budget by about $844 million in health care and an additional $463 million in benefit programs including disability compensation, vocational rehabilitation, education survivor’s benefits, and pension programs from next year’s budget. In addition to these cuts, the GOP is planning to cut $15 billion from the veteran programs over the next 10 years. The soldiers and sailors that are currently in harms way in the the Middle East, are about to have their future veterans’ benefits and health care slashed. If, that is, the Republicans get their way.
According to the Veterans Administration, 28 million veterans are currently using VA benefits and another 70 million Americans are potentially eligible for such programs, a quarter of the county’s population. With the economy in a downward spiral and unemployment rising quickly, an increased number of veterans will be turning to the Veterans Administration for assistance. Yet, the VA budget is about to shrink.
“As the nation expresses support for our soldiers and sailors on the verge of war in the Middle East, even from us who are deeply opposed to this unnecessary war,” says Stewart Nusbaumer of Veterans Against Iraq War” (www.vaiw.org), the Republicans are expressing contempt by cutting the veterans budget.”
56 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 1:39 pm
#51 Two years from now? You know why the budget “cuts”, bober? Because older, less efficient facilities will be shut down and your falling for the political games that the White House, Congress and the media play each year. The truly necessary funding for injured American warriors won’t be cut … unless a Democratically-controlled Congress does the cutting.
Also this for some grownup perspective: A spokesman for Larry Craig, R-Idaho, the top Republican on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, called the White House moves another step in a longtime “budgeting game.â€
“No one who is knowledgeable about VA budgeting issues anticipates any cuts to VA funding. None. Zero. Zip,†said Craig spokesman Jeff Schrade.
The veterans cuts, said White House budget office spokesman Sean Kevelighan, “don’t reflect any policy decisions. We’ll revisit them when we do the (future) budgets.â€
The fact of the matter, bober, is the Democratic Congress has final say in what gets cut and what doesn’t get cut. THOSE “CUTS” HAVEN’T HAPPENED YET and your falling for liberal media spin … again. Though you were more politically astute than this bober but you’re too busy hating Bush and sucking down left-wing hysteria to think independently.
Bush’s 2008 federal budget proposal includes $84.4 billion for the VA, a 13.3 percent increase over 2007. Of that, $36.6 billion would be for medical care, an 83 percent increase over 2001 funding levels.
Now how much is that theoretical “cut”, bober?
With the economy in a downward spiral and unemployment rising quickly, an increased number of veterans will be turning to the Veterans Administration for assistance. Yet, the VA budget is about to shrink.
And what’s with this garbage? Economy in a downward spiral? Your sources are NUTS!
BTW, just link to these so-called “news stories” so we evaluate the real sources for the rather reprehensible spin and commentary contained therein, bober. All left-wing spin sites will be rejected out of hand.
57 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 1:51 pm
And quit pretending you “Support the Troops.” All you’ve done is complain about EVERYTHING under the sun, disparaged the Commander in Chief, denigrated the soldiers’ mission, and have done nothing personally befitting your alleged concern for those soldiers wounded in a noble cause. I’d be willing to bet if the VA budget was doubled next year you’d still question Bush’s patriotism and commitment to those he commands or find something else to complain about. Which leads me to one of three conclusions: 1) you’re a natural born whiner, you’re a shameless partisan hack and too gutless to admit it, or 3) it’s not so much the “lack” of money you’re complaining about but rather the lack of a caring spirit and sense of ministry those who are charged with taking care of our wounded veterans have exhibited. And so how is this Bush’s fault?
Yeah, VA administrators and those charged with direct oversight of the VA healthcare system screwed up and now those with the proper power will hopefully spend their energy righting a wrong. But I’m afraid there are too many partisan Dhimmiecrats who will spend far too much time and energy blaming and hating Bush just to impress people like you.
58 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 3:31 pm
…schmuck!
59 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 3:38 pm
More insanity by left-wing moonbats. This time from the Euro-weenies (and don’t think it can’t happen here with a Dhimmiecratic President and a Dhimmiecratically-controlled Congress):
The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday.
The council chose an unfortunate anniversary to publish its decision approving the law, which came exactly 16 years after Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King were filmed by amateur videographer George Holliday on the night of March 3, 1991. The officers’ acquittal at the end on April 29, 1992 sparked riots in Los Angeles.
If Holliday were to film a similar scene of violence in France today, he could end up in prison as a result of the new law, said Pascal Cohet, a spokesman for French online civil liberties group Odebi. And anyone publishing such images could face up to five years in prison and a fine of €75,000 (US $98,537), potentially a harsher sentence than that for committing the violent act.
Well, that law should reduce reported jihadist activity by 100%! Morons.
60 Darthmeister // Mar 6, 2007 at 3:39 pm
…The French Constitutional Council ate my post!
61 Government Health Care Anyone? « Colorado Right // Mar 7, 2007 at 1:09 pm
[...] Government Health Care Anyone? Scrappleface is a parody right? (2007-03-05) — Democrat presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton today decried the allegedly poor conditions, stifling bureaucracy and negligent care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and throughout the VA healthcare system, but added, “Just think how bad it would be if it weren’t a government run system.†[...]
62 cooleric1234 // Mar 11, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Just wanted to comment about the patent office. I recently submitted for a patent, I’m an electrical engineer. I can tell you the whole patent thing is a mess. There is talk that it getting nearly unsustainable. The whole intent of patents has been lost (protect the inventions of the little guy) by the exorbitant fees, paperwork, and assigning of patents to companies over people. The only reason there doesn’t appear to be any problems is that nobody is interested in an expose of the current patent system. It’s in a laughable state.
63 A Second Hand Conjecture » The VA is the Answer // Mar 14, 2007 at 1:06 pm
[...] Dale Franks posted this the other day: [...]
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