House 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. And so, 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.”
She suggested that Obamacare might hold the key to solving the problem. “We have the Affordable Care Act that is out there that is providing resources for more federally-qualified health clinics around the country,” Pelosi said. “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 federally qualified health clinic or in some other institution that provides health care closer to home. [It’s] especially important for our veterans who live in rural areas.”
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Pelosi has a short memory. She was Speaker Of The House when this scandal broke in 2008. Why didn’t she do anything about it?
it might be a caution to not exclude prior administrations from their lack of plans in the shortsighted voices of betterment for a system that has no good set of checks and balances for human attainment.
Questioning this is indeed liberty.
Nancy, Nancy
Still blaming Bush?
That’s so 2008
“It’s Bush’s fault!”
Hey Nancy, that’s plaguerism! That’s not your line!!!
There were scandals involving Walter Reed Hospital back in the years of Pres. Bush. This is not new. I guess the new administration dropped the ball because they were too busy keeping the economy from degenerating into a new Great Depression. Nevertheless, the people appointed to the VA should have been on the alert, since there had already been problems. There’s plenty of blame to go around. The real question now is – WHAT TO WE DO TO FIX THINGS?