With the scandal surrounding Veterans Affairs seeming to grow more and more every day even some Democrats are questioning what is going on. Nancy Pelosi recently said she was not satisfied with the response from the president.
With this in mind one would think that when the House passed legislation, by a bipartisan vote of 390-33, which would make it easier to hold Veterans Affairs officials responsible for this scandal that it would be easily passed by the Senate as well and would be headed to Barack Obama’s desk for his signature but you would be wrong because Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders blocked this bill.
Surely the Senate would follow suit, right? Not exactly. Senator Bernie Sanders, a union-backed socialist from Vermont, objected on behalf of Senate Democrats to Rubio’s request. Instead of taking any action now, Sanders said he is going to hold a hearing—several weeks from now.
According to the article linked to above Bernie Sanders was acting on behalf of Senate Democrats, proving once and for all that the Democrats are putting partisan politics ahead of the health and well-being of those who have signed a blank check to the United States government up to, and including, their lives if needs be for the do not want to let the Republicans get credit for this. What more needs to be said? They can talk a good game but actions speak louder than words…..
One of the selling points of Obamacare, and more specifically the individual mandate, was the mantra that many uninsured people use the emergency room as their primary care office. Because of this the costs of healthcare rise and the taxpayers end up footing the bill for the uninsured. So while taxpayers would subsidize healthcare plans under Obamacare for the less fortunate among us it would end up being cheaper in the long run because the mandate insured that people would start to become responsible for their own coverage and the cost of healthcare would go down as a result.
This could be a legitimate argument and it does make some sense on paper, however the reality seems to be a little different at this point. The American College of Emergency Physicians has released a new study in which they claim emergency room visits have actually spiked since Obamacare was implemented.
Just when you thought the Veterans Affairs scandal could not get any worse another whistleblower has stepped forward, this time in Florida, with a claim of drug dealing, and an ensuing coverup within Veterans Affairs.
According to this story Thomas Fiore is a criminal investigator in Florida who was in charge of investigating drug discrepancies within the Florida Veterans Affairs office. He claims that this office is involved in drug dealing.
Fiore, a criminal investigator for the VA police department in South Florida, contacted CBS4 News hoping to shed light on what he considers a culture of cover-ups and bureaucratic neglect. Among his charges: Drug dealing on the hospital grounds is a daily occurrence.
“Anything from your standard prescription drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet, and of course marijuana, cocaine, heroin, I’ve come across them all,” he explained. Despite the softening penalties that have been enacted over the last several years, cocaine possession in California can still result in serious penalties can still result in serious penalties he said.
And to make matters worse; he claims he was ordered to stop investigating this issue:
Firewall with Bill Whittle: My Friend Failure
Here is the latest Firewall video by Bill Whittle entitled ‘My Friend Failure.’ This is an interesting video where he chronicles the failures of some famous people before they finally achieved success. He talks about how failure can be good if you learn from it and use it to motivate you, and how these people did just that. He also talks about his failures and how they got him to where he is now.
Enjoy:
Latest New Hampshire poll shows Governor Hassan beating both Republican candidates easily
There are two Republican candidates, Walt Havenstein and Andrew Hemingway, vying to become the Republican nominee to take on Governor Hassan in November. According to this latest poll it really does not seem to matter at this point which one wins the nomination for they both poll about the same against the governor, and it is not good:
The poll of 707 registered Granite State voters taken May 14-15 by Vox Populi Polling, a new Republican polling firm of Washington, D.C., shows Hassan leading Republican retired businessman Walt Havenstein, 43 to 30 percent, with 23 percent undecided. She leads Republican businessman Andrew Hemingway, 42 to 31 percent, with 22 percent undecided.
The one bright side if you are either Walt Havenstein or Andrew Hemingway could possibly be the seemingly high number of people who are undecided at this point; 20+% being undecided about the governor seems high to me so it will be interesting to see where these people go as we get closer to the election.
The interesting races in New Hampshire will be in the House for both Ann Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter seem vulnerable.
Veterans Affairs whistleblower in Saint Louis claims he was demoted after coming forward
We recently heard the story of Lisa Lee: she is the whistleblower who came forward and told us about the secret waiting list in the Phoenix office of Veterans Affairs. She claims that when she refused to cook the books she was ordered to transfer, and once she spilled the beans on the waiting list she was suspended for two weeks without pay. When she started talking to the Feds the Phoenix office of Veterans Affairs offered to pay her for the two weeks and remove the suspension from her record in return for her silence.
Now we are learning the story of Jose Mathews: he was head of the Veterans Affairs office in Saint Louis and he claims that once he came forward he was demoted and has been the victim of bullying.
Here is more:
The whistleblower who came forward about the secret waiting list in the Phoenix Veterans Affairs hospital is now claiming she was ordered to transfer when she refused to cook the books. She is also claiming that when she protested the transfer she was suspended without pay.
Here is what she is claiming:
The whistleblower behind the federal investigation of the Fort Collins Veterans Affairs clinic said she was put on two-week unpaid leave for not “cooking the books” when scheduling appointments.
Lisa Lee, a former Navy reservist now on active duty in Hawaii, told the Coloradoan she and another scheduler were transferred from Fort Collins in March 2013 for refusing to hide wait times between desired appointment dates and actual dates. She said the suspension came after she filed an internal grievance about the transfer and scheduling practices.
“Why are they throwing me under the bus when I’m trying to say what the problem is?” Lee asked. It’s one of those questions that pretty much answers itself. She’s convinced she was punished to set an example for other schedulers.
Latest New Hampshire poll shows Jeanne Shaheen ahead of carpetbagger Scott Brown by 12 points
The latest New Hampshire poll is out and it is not good news for the carpetbagging and inevitable Republican nominee Scott Brown; he trails Jeanne Shaheen, who should be a vulnerable Democrat, by 12 points.
The poll of 707 likely Granite State voters taken May 14-15 by Vox Populi Polling, a new Republican polling firm of Washington, D.C. , shows Democrat Shaheen leading Brown 47 to 35 percent with 13 percent undecided.
The sampling of this latest poll was 47 percent independents, 27 percent Republicans and 26 percent Democrats, and the margin of error was 3.6 percent, the Vox Populi said.
The interesting thing to note here is that according to this poll another Republican candidate actually polls closer to Jeanne Shaheen for the first time. Unfortunately it is another carpetbagger, Bob Smith, (at least Bob Smith was a New Hampshire senator in the past before moving away) and not one of the other candidates.
But none of that really matters because Scott Brown is the candidate who has been chosen by the establishment and that means he has a huge advantage over all Republican candidates and it shows in the latest poll:
But in a GOP primary poll, Brown was far ahead of the field, leading Smith 38 to 13 percent, with former state Sen. Jim Rubens at 9 percent, conservative activist Karen Testerman 8 percent and 28 percent undecided.
Our choice has been made for us; Scott Brown will be the nominee whether you like it or not, and when November rolls around he will go down in defeat. Maybe then the establishment will finally get it, but I doubt it.
Is Barack Obama using “Operation Choke Point” in an attempt to force gun dealers out of business?
Operation Choke Point is not a new story, I first wrote about it back in January and this is what I wrote in that post:
According to this article Darrell Issa might be preparing to launch an investigation into the Obama regime’s ‘Operation Choke Point,’ claiming the regime might be using this policy to shakedown and intimidate banks.
Darrell Issa sent a letter to Eric Holder and here is part of what it said:
In the letter, Issa and Jordan stated, “[t]he [House Oversight and Government Reform] Committee is concerned that both the goal and mechanisms of Operation Choke Point may constitute a serious mismanagement and abuse of the Department’s FIRREA [Financial Institution Reform and Recovery Act of 1989] authority.”
“There is evidence,” they wrote, “that the true goal of Operation Choke Point is to target online lenders and the payment processors who serve them.” They stated further, “[t]he extraordinary breadth of the Department’s dragnet prompts concern that the true goal of Operation Choke Point is not to cut off actual fraudsters’ access to the financial system, but rather to eliminate legal financial services to which the Department objects.”
Issa and Jordan also told Attorney General Holder in the letter, “[i]t appears the Department has indiscriminately targeted an access point to the financial system that countless legitimate merchants rely upon simply because it is ‘faster’ than targeting the actual perpetrators of fraud.” The Department of Justice, they wrote, is “needlessly punishing good actors with the bad, and threatening legitimate merchants.”
The Injustice Department has not yet responded. Here is more from the article:
Breitbart News broke the story Wednesday morning that the Obama administration launched ‘Operation Choke Point’ out of the Department of Justice in 2013 for the express purpose of destroying three key sectors of the private lending industry: third party payment processors (“TPPPs”), online lenders, and payday lenders.
Stay tuned, this could get interesting.
According to this story Barack Obama was told shortly after the 2008 election that there were problems with the Veterans Affairs and he was warned not to trust the lists.
Here is more:
The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care — problems that have turned into a growing scandal.
Veterans Affairs officials warned the Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks after the 2008 presidential election that the department shouldn’t trust the wait times that its facilities were reporting.
“This is not only a data integrity issue in which [Veterans Health Administration] reports unreliable performance data; it affects quality of care by delaying — and potentially denying — deserving veterans timely care,” the officials wrote.
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