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You Will Never Guess Who Pelosi Blames For The VA Scandal

Hint: It’s Not Obama

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B. Christopher Agee — May 23, 2014

The day after Barack Obama insisted he would get to the bottom of the Veterans Affairs scandal by putting the department’s head in charge of investigating himself, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the controversy Thursday. As in scandals past, the Democrat was quick to blame the actions of Obama’s predecessor.
Obama “sees the ramifications of some seeds that were sown a long time ago,” she suggested, “when you have two wars over a long period of time and many, many more, millions more veterans.”

Without specifically mentioning George W. Bush by name, she assured gathered reporters that “he is upset about it.”
She continued her diatribe with an excoriation of the previous administration’s foreign policy decisions.
“Maybe when we go into war,” she said, “we should be thinking about its consequences and its ramifications. You would think that would be a given; but maybe it wasn’t.”
As a result of America’s post-9/11 military action, she asserted that the VA was overburdened, perhaps leading to the current issues that have been blamed for dozens of veteran deaths.
“And so,” she explained, “we go in a war in Afghanistan, leave Afghanistan for Iraq with unfinished business in Afghanistan. Ten years later, we have all of these additional veterans. In the past five years, two million more veterans needing benefits from the VA. That’s a huge, huge increase.”
While her claims seem to have some objective merit, Pelosi completely ignored evidence suggesting the Obama administration has known about the VA’s shortcomings since the beginning of his presidency. In fact, she concluded his policies will likely be responsible for turning the department around.
“We have the Affordable Care Act that is out there that is providing resources for more federally qualified health clinics around the country,” she asserted. “Maybe we should take a look at how we deal with our veterans’ needs in a way that says let’s help them closer to home, whether that’s a qualified health clinic or in some other institution that provides health care closer to home.”
Pelosi’s statement is further evidence that this scandal is shaping up to follow the same trajectory of the many others that have plagued the Obama administration – complete with Democrats circling the wagons around their embattled leader.