Obama To Curb Veterans Health Care

By: streiff (Diary)  |  March 12th at 01:28 PM  | 

Throughout the course of the 2008 campaign we heard a relentless woof-woof from the Obama campaign of how they were going to take care of veterans and how John McCain, an actual disabled veteran, was going to screw veterans. When McCain proposed allowing veterans to seek treatment outside the VA medical system by using vouchers, a blessing if there ever was one, he was pilloried | Read More »

A challenge to General Shinseki

By: streiff (Diary)  |  December 15th at 09:23 AM  | 

I wrote earlier on the nomination of retired General Eric shinseki to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, however in today’s Washington Post, former Defense Department spokesperson Lawrence Di Rita does the best job I’ve seen thus far of deflating the Shinseki mythos. Like so much else we’ve seen with this Administration in the area of communications, this comes about 6 years too late to be | Read More »

Shinseki To Be Secretary of Veterans Affairs

By: streiff (Diary)  |  December 7th at 08:56 AM  | 

The wire services are reporting that former Army Chief of Staff, retired General Eric Shinseki will be nominated to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the new Obama administration. I’m not a big fan of Shinseki for a number of reasons. The signature events of his tenure as Army Chief of Staff was carrying out a direct attack on the Ranger Regiment by mandating that | Read More »