The White House Chief of Staff tells the press that Obama is madder than hell about the on-going, and long-lived VA scandal. He “has the scars” to prove it. I guess they are as tough to live with as the real-life scars veterans live with, physical and mental. Jerk.

Now mouthpiece Carney is also saying Obama is as mad as hell about the treatment of Veterans at the VA medical centers. The thing is, Obama hasn’t said it publicly himself. Well, he did back in 2007 when candidate Obama was busy sucking up for veteran votes.

“After seven years of an Administration that has stretched our military to the breaking point, ignored deplorable conditions at some VA hospitals, and neglected the planning and preparation necessary to care for our returning heroes, America’s veterans deserve a President who will fight for them not just when it’s easy or convenient, but every hour of every day for the next four years.” 11/12/07.

Well, you can’t have it both ways, Barry.

If you said that in 2007 and were talking about the previous seven years, and the press is saying it now, that means it has been a problem for 14 years. Are you having a case of selective amnesia now, or convenient anger?

40 cases have popped up from just one VA center of Veterans dying or having had died waiting to see a doctor. Some of them were in such pain that they killed themselves rather than prolong agony through more waiting. Those backlogged cases in the hindreds of thousands? Deleted. The longer than Bataan Death march waiting lists? They kept those people on a separate, secretive list.

Meanwhile, just last year, the VA handed out millions of dollars to top VA officials for performance in reducing the backlogged cases.  Of course, they showed better performance.  They hid cases off book and swept everything else under the rug.

Maybe Barry’s just chalking it up as another front on the now obsolete War on Terror. I mean, all these returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are just domestic terrorists in disguise. Deny them care and they’ll eventually die–beith their hands (the VA) or their own. Problem solved. Somebody sure has a reason to be mad as hell. But it isn’t the ass clown in the White House…unless he’s just mad the story came back to life on his watch.