Nancy Pelosi gave Harry Reid the weekend off from raving about the Koch Brothers but was unable to come up with a new villain to blame for the VA scandal. Old habits die hard.
Joel Gehrke of The Washington Examiner…
Nancy Pelosi blames George W. Bush for Veterans Affairs scandalHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., repeatedly put the blame for the Veterans Affairs scandal on former President George W. Bush, while arguing that her party has worked hard for veterans in recent years.Pelosi took a shot at Bush while saying that the scandal is a high priority for Obama. “He sees the ramifications of some seeds that were sown a long time ago, when you have two wars over a long period of time and many, many more, millions more veterans,” she told reporters during her Thursday press briefing. “And so, I know that he is upset about it.”The Democratic leader never mentioned Bush by name, but she alluded to him early and often in the press briefing.“Maybe when we go into war, we should be thinking about its consequences and its ramifications,” Pelosi said while discussing the scandal. “You would think that would be a given, but maybe it wasn’t.
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air provides some clarity on the issue here…
CBS poll: Voters blame Shinseki, Obama for VA scandalLet’s recap on this. Candidate Obama campaigned on this issue, and president-elect Obama and Shinseki were briefed on it during the transition, and VA officials had been warned as early as 2010 that wait-list fraud was still occurring. Congress has increased Shinseki’s budget by 78% since the 2009 inauguration as demanded by Obama. Yet the White House claims to be shocked, shocked that this problem exists — and that the man to deal with it is the same man who let it fester for five-plus years while Congress poured money into his organization.
Nancy Pelosi is obviously just trying to deflect blame from Obama and her party.
The fact that she would continue to attempt to slur George W. Bush after his respectful silence throughout Obama’s presidency says so much more about her.
She’s like a snow day…
No class.
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