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Veterans Groups Rip Into Sen. Richard Burr For Questioning Their Priorities...........................
Burr accused the groups (with the exception of the American Legion) of being more invested in maintaining access to the secretary than with fixing a troubled health care system. He questioned why they haven't called for a leadership change at the VA, and pointedly charged the groups leaders with not caring about the health and well-being of their members.
Burrs letter was in response to the testimony that Shinseki and seven of these veteran service organizations (VSO) had given before his committee the week prior, concerning revelations and allegations of long wait times, bureaucratic malfeasance and insufficient care at the VA.
Not surprisingly, leaders at the veterans groups Burr named were not pleased with the letter.
In their own letter, Veterans of Foreign Wars responded to Burr by calling his letter a monumental cheap-shot and labeling it one of the most dishonorable and grossly inappropriate acts that weve witnessed in more than forty years of involvement with the veteran community. If the tone wasnt clear, the group added that Burrs conduct and allegations were ugly and mean-spirited in every sense of the words and profoundly wrong, both logically and morally, in addition to breaching the standards of the United States Senate.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/226021691/VWF
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Over the coals.
Nicely done, VFW!
KinMd
(966 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)with just wearing flag pins in the lapels of their $2,500 Armani suits. And the Republican voters just lap it up!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Well they didn't pull punches did they.
Stainless
(718 posts)Do they seriously think that Veterans don't know that the Republican controlled congress has been cutting funding and undermining the VA for years now?
I sense that the wheels are starting to come off the Clown Car that is the Republican Party! I'm really enjoying watching Republican politicians step in their own shit.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)the 1% Washington apple cart by inflicting any real change to the status quo, now, can we?!?!
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)The Iron Heel by Jack London, 1908
Project Gutenberg
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)that thing in the VFW's outstretched hands is your ass. You should probably take it and then apologize.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Spread the word about any Congresscritter who uses this as a political football. Tell them to STFU and vote for Vets benefits if they want our votes.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)Burr is a disgrace to NC and needs to be kicked to the curb.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)"I just dont know where her loyalties lie": Allen West.
( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/22/allen-west-tammy-duckworth_n_5375138.html )
It's as despicable, in its way, as the way Max Cleland was treated by Saxby Chambliss. Loss of limb is no proof of heroism or loyalty to the US to that kind of GOPer.
How much is enough? I suspect that for them the only good veteran is a silent veteran. Even better if said veterans are actually dead -- they're no trouble then, they make no demands on the system, they need not trouble the conscience (such as it is) of the uber-patriots of the Right Wing.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)A truly beautiful fuck off as I have ever seen.
calimary
(81,238 posts)The GOP doesn't deserve beautiful. At least not til they reform their anti-social money-grubbing short-sighted behavior and their policies, that is.
bpollen
(110 posts)"We don't act in hopes of grabbing a headline or securing an interview on cable news; our only agenda in this is to ensure the veterans of our nation receive timely and adequate healthcare."
After they kicked his ass, that line is when they bitch-slapped him.
Way to go, guys!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)[serving.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)We need to go after these scoundrels, and hard.
white cloud
(2,567 posts)Hammer these Chicken Hawks. despicable and need to resign
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth