Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
You don’t need to see our appointment logs to check VA wait times; we’ve carefully checked our records and confirmed we were right all along. So that’s settled.
This is the level of investigative journalism that meets the standards of the MSM. The VA said they don’t have secret lists, so they don’t. Because if the VA had secret stuff they would say so. You know, like secret surveillance of citizens, secret monitoring of phone calls of world leaders and Joe the Plumber. Secret targeting of undesirable political opposition by the IRS, the INS, the EPA, the Dept of the Interior, etc.
If they had a secret, the responsible people in the government would fess up at once, without doubt. Since they haven’t, there’s nothing to see here: move along.
Takes me back to the days when Obama ordered the oceans closed. Yeah, remember, what, a year ago, he closed the ocean off Florida to punish the voters for the shut-down? He does so much outrageous, blatantly illegal and stupid crap that you forgot about that one, didn’t you?
This is what Fernandez means by “dense pack.” Obama has so many scandals occurring so quickly that we never get a chance to investigate one before it’s old news and we must move on to the next. Thus, no scandal ever sticks to him.
It’s the equivalent of a lawyer answering a discovery motion by dumping triplicate copies of every piece of paper in their client’s office on the petitioner, in hopes that anything incriminating gets lost in the blizzard of paper.
“That is for new patients who request an appointment anytime within 90 days but cannot be scheduled because of overcapacity.”
Overcapacity?
Congress might have found a real scandal — and it’s not Benghazi. Hoocoodanode…
The thing that it most infuriating about this is that if you do real process audits of the cases that come to public view, you’d unearth these things very quickly. Mayo does this by sending out surveys to patients which are then interpreted by a third party, for example.
It’s like the President and Mr. Shinseki are not interested in solving these problems for some reason. Just like (ahem, Emery) Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder don’t seem to be getting to the bottom of Fast and Furious or the IRS scandal very quickly, either. A couple well placed arrests of low level perps will tend to get them to talk and implicate the real Gambinos and Columbos at the center of the issue.