In VA Scandal, Accountability for All — Including Congress
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 24th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
In VA Scandal, Accountability for All — Including Congress
Joe Conason, RealClearPolitics
While Congress eagerly prepares its latest political stunt — a resolution to oust Gen. Eric Shinseki as Veterans Affairs Secretary — individual members might consider their own responsibility for the scandalous inadequacy of veterans’ health care. Unlike most of them, especially on the Republican side, Shinseki opposed the incompetent war plans of the George W. Bush administration that left so many American service men and women grievously wounded. And unlike most of them, especially on the Republican side, Shinseki has done much to reduce the backlog of veterans seeking care, despite the…
GOP Still Swallowing the Tea
Eugene Robinson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — What’s happening in the Republican primaries is less a defeat for the tea party than a surrender by the GOP establishment, which is winning key races by accepting the tea party’s radical anti-government philosophy. Anyone who hopes the party has finally come to its senses will be disappointed. Republicans have pragmatically decided not to concede Senate elections by nominating eccentrics and crackpots. But in convincing the party’s activist base to come along, establishment leaders have pledged fealty to eccentric, crackpot ideas. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who easily…
Non Campus Mentis
Steven Hayward, RealClearPolitics
Shortly after the 2010 mid-term elections, my old mentor M. Stanton Evans offered his interpretation of the Republican landslide: “The election represents a return of the conservative principles of low taxes, fiscal responsibility, family values, and a strong national defense. In other words—hate.” If anything, this gag is understated—vindicating Evans’s Law of Insufficient Paranoia—which holds that no matter how bad things look, a closer inspection will always find that they’re even worse than you thought. Earlier this year, campus feminists at…
