GOP Rep: It’s Too Bad Veterans Affairs Isn’t Running ISIL

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., speaks to the crowd at a GOP election night gathering in Denver. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, asked a Re... FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., speaks to the crowd at a GOP election night gathering in Denver. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, asked a Republican lawmaker who served in both Iraq wars, "What have you done?" as the two men sparred over huge cost overruns at a troubled Denver VA hospital. McDonald was defending the VA's budget at a hearing when he and Coffman tussled over construction delays and cost increases at the long-delayed hospital project. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider, File) MORE LESS
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While discussing the dysfunction at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Friday, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) began to describe how the Islamic State would function if the terrorist organization were led by the VA’s leaders.

“I was speaking before a group the other day and said it’s too bad we can’t take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under VA’s leadership,” Coffman said on 850 KOA’s “Colorado Morning News,” according to an audio clipped posted by Buzzfeed News.

“Can you imagine if the VA was in charge of ISIS?” Coffman asked. “They’d probably say: ‘Oh, you know it wasn’t quite 2,000 that we beheaded, it was really 24, is the accurate number. And we’re sorry that, in fact, they were all our own terrorists that we beheaded because they got misclassified in the system as Christians.'”

“I mean that would be, um…that would be the VA in charge of ISIS,” he continued. “So, clearly we need to clean house. We need better leadership. The president needs to be engaged in this and other issues.”

Coffman also discussed a bill he sponsored to authorize additional funding to build a VA hospital in Aurora, Colo., which has passed in the House and Senate. The construction of the hospital has been delayed significantly and will cost $1.7 billion, which would make it one of the most expensive VA construction projects, according to Colorado television station KUSA.

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  1. Too bad the GOP isn’t running ISIL. After all, the GOP, ISIL and Al-Qaida have the same goal- the complete destruction of the United States.

  2. Reading the headline (which didn’t mention a name), my money was on Louie Gohmert making this statement.

  3. So let me get this straight:

    This shthead made this grossly rude statement about the VA but AT THE SAME TIME wants additional funding for a VA hospital to be built in his state of Colorado. As people on this site have said in the past, just when I think the Rethugs have scraped the bottom of the barrel, they continue their way down to China. Fcking unreal.

  4. Funny coming from a fuck who’s political ideology meshes with ISIS, e.g. the abandonment of liberal western democracy for authoritarian theocracy.

    Ah fuck it, I’ll say it: I’d LOL if ISIS sawed this shitheel’s head off.

  5. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    GOP Rep. Bizarrely…

    Finally. A politician whose surname matches ideology.

    jw1

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