By Victor Davis Hanson May 22, 2014
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki cannot get a
handle on the recent scandalous treatment of veterans in VA hospitals, where
more than 40 sick men were allowed to die without proper follow-up treatment. A
cover-up allegedly followed. When the Walter Reed Army Medical Center scandal
broke under the George W. Bush administration, heads rolled. So far, Shinseki
seems immune from similar accountability.
Almost nothing that former secretary of health and human
services Kathleen Sebelius promised before, during, or after the implementation
of the ill-starred Affordable Care Act came true. She was also cited by the
U.S. Office of Special Counsel for violating the Hatch Act, as she improperly
campaigned for Obama’s reelection while serving as a cabinet secretary.
Former IRS official Lois Lerner used the federal
tax-collection agency to go after groups deemed too conservative. She invoked
the Fifth Amendment to avoid telling Congress the whole truth……. The common
denominator?
In all of these cases, politics trumped ethics. Because
Obama professed that he was on the side of the proverbial people,
administrators assumed that they had a blank check to do or say what they
wished without much media audit. The mystery is not whether some administration
officials were incompetent or unethical or both, but whether there are any left
who are not.....To Read More.....
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