House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday said she was not yet ready to call for Veterans Affairs Sec. Eric Shinseki to resign.
“I’m not there yet,” she said during a press conference. “I have a high regard for the Secretary.”
Pelosi said she thought it was best to be “careful” when calling for leaders to step down. She said that removing Shinseki wouldn’t necessarily address the “systemic problem” at the VA.
“It’s easy to call for someone at the top to go,” she said, adding that it “remains to be seen” whether that would solve any problems.
Summons them back from the breach, Nancy.
Maybe the head of the House Oversight Committee needs to be subpoenaed to testify in front of a special select committee regarding why he wasn’t doing his fucking job.
The heads must roll syndrome in DC is a pathetic instrument for surgery. Good call Nancy.
The “systemic problem” at the VA is in reality intentional budgetary anemia as secondary to pathological austerity.
(1). Replace the leader
(2). Dust off hands
(3). Mission accomplished!
And that’s why the problems don’t really get solved.