{"id":9305,"date":"2014-05-21T16:16:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:16:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-21T16:16:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T16:16:33","slug":"obama_just_found_out_about_the_va_scandal_and_he_s_really_really_mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/05\/21\/obama_just_found_out_about_the_va_scandal_and_he_s_really_really_mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Just Found Out About the VA Scandal, and He\u2019s Really, Really Mad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Did you see how mad Obama was at that… I guess it was a press conference. He had a meeting with Shinseki, and Shinseki told him what was going on at the VA, and Obama was livid. He was so mad<\/a>. Did you see that? I would not have wanted to be Shinseki. ‘Cause Obama didn\u2019t know anything about this until today, and he still doesn\u2019t believe it. There still has to be an investigation to find out what really went on at the VA, and then if it did go on, they\u2019re gonna trace it back to George W. Bush. It\u2019s pretty much what Obama said. But he was mad, he was mad. I mean, he was really, really mad. It\u2019s like he just became president yesterday and was just told about this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is this morning in Washington at the White House. Now, prior to this, Obama had a meeting with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki. That meeting was around ten o\u2019clock. By the way, I should tell you, the Drive-Bys are really worried about this one. I saw a tweet from F. Chuck Todd<\/a> of NBC News. They are really, really worried and F. Chuck\u2019s tweet, I don\u2019t have it right in front of me, but his tweet is written as though he is a member of the administration. This could really be bad for us. Because F. Chuck notes that local media is also on to this and on to it big time. <\/p>\n

<\/a>This is not like Benghazi, which is faked and contrived by the Republicans. This is not like the IRS scandal which is again something the Republicans have got nothing else to talk about so they\u2019re trying to contrive and make the IRS thing to be much worse than it really is. This is nothing like Fast and Furious. No, no, no, the gunrunning operation that Eric Holder and Obama did that ended up with really powerful weapons in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, done on purpose. <\/p>\n

Fast and Furious, of course, was designed to, in a surreptitious way, attack the Second Amendment by causing public outrage in this country over how easy it is for these guns to end up in the hands of drug lords. Well, it is easy if you\u2019re gonna make sure it happens. But that scandal, according to F. Chuck and the rest of the Drive-Bys, no big deal. That\u2019s just the Republicans once again yammering, trying to make something out of nothing. And Obamacare, there\u2019s no real scandal there. That\u2019s just the president trying to insure the uninsured, really trying to improve health care for everybody. Really, really, really trying<\/a> to make health care affordable for all Americans. <\/p>\n

But this VA thing, they\u2019re worried. The Drive-Bys are worried. They don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna be able to manage this one. And the VA scandal is not so much about lack of treatment. It\u2019s about lack of getting treatment. Let me put it this way, the scandal is not that the treatment is poor, the medical care is poor; it\u2019s that nobody can get it. The lines are so long, the system is so inefficient, that people can\u2019t get in. Vets can\u2019t get in to VA centers for treatment, and they come up with these fake lists that are waiting lists that are designed to create the illusion they\u2019re speeding people through when they\u2019re not. I don\u2019t think there are a whole lot of serious complaints about the level of actual health care that\u2019s at these centers; it\u2019s that nobody can get in, because it\u2019s such a mismanaged bureaucracy. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, the Drive-Bys are worried. To illustrate their worry, the president\u2019s meeting with Shinseki was at around ten o\u2019clock, and no matter what news network you tuned to, the Drive-Bys and the White House correspondents were lined up in the White House pressroom for the entire time doing stand-up news reports about the coming press conference, the coming statement by President Obama after his meeting with Shinseki at 10:45. And for the most part, the president was on time — and, boy was he mad!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: When I hear allegations of misconduct, any misconduct — whether it\u2019s allegations of VA staff covering up long wait times or cooking the books — I will not stand for it, not as commander-in-chief but also not as an American. None of us should. So, if these allegations prove to be true, it\u2019s dishonorable, it is disgraceful, and I will not tolerate it. Period.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? He just found out! This is the Limbaugh Theorem on display once again. He\u2019s as mad as he can be. He just found out about this<\/a>. Shinseki just today told him how bad it is — and even at that, they don\u2019t really know. They\u2019ve gotta do an investigation first. And if the investigation confirms what Obama was told, he\u2019s really gonna be mad. But he didn\u2019t know anything about it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like he just became president yesterday, and yesterday they tell him all of this stuff that\u2019s been going on to try to get him up to speed. Then, as is his usual reaction, he said that the previous administrations all have played a role in this and that he has ordered the VA to “up its game.” When he found out what was going on, he told the VA they better get shipshape now!<\/p>\n

<\/a>OBAMA: When I came into office, I said we would systematically work to fix these problems, and we have been working really hard to address them. I want specific recommendations on how VA can up their game. Some of the problems with respect to how veterans are able to access the benefits that they\u2019ve earned? That\u2019s not a new issue! That\u2019s an issue that I was working on when I was running for the United States Senate. We are gonna fix whatever is wrong. And so long as I have the privilege of serving as commander-in-chief, I\u2019m gonna keep on fighting to deliver the care and the benefits and the opportunities that your families deserve.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? What has happened from 2008 forward doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s only from today forward that matters. Now that Obama\u2019s on the case, now that he knows about it, he\u2019s not gonna put up with it! He is not gonna tolerate this. When he hears about these allegations of misconduct — covering up long wait times, cooking the books — he\u2019s not gonna put up with it. He\u2019s had it, he\u2019s not gonna put up with it. When he came into office he said they were gonna work to fix these problems, and they have been.<\/p>\n

But somehow they didn\u2019t get fixed, and now he\u2019s really mad. So it\u2019s classic Limbaugh Theorem. He didn\u2019t know about it. He\u2019s just as mad as you. Now that he\u2019s found out about it, he\u2019s gonna fight these horrible, terrible forces that are undermining the VA. He\u2019s gonna get \u2019em and he\u2019s gonna find out who they are! He\u2019s gonna identify \u2019em and he\u2019s gonna send \u2019em packing, he\u2019s working for you. He\u2019s doing everything he can. He\u2019s just as mad as you are. He had no idea things were this bad.<\/p>\n

This is how he does it. <\/p>\n

This is how he convinces the low-information crowd. Nobody\u2019s supposed to ask, “Well, this has been going on the whole time he\u2019s been president. Why didn\u2019t you know about it?” You\u2019re not supposed to ask that. What you are supposed to conclude is he cares. “Oh, does he care — and is he mad! Oh, oh! He is so mad.” <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the tweet that Chuck Todd <\/a>sent out that I mentioned to you earlier: “Have noticed a lot of local media doing ‘check out the VA problems here\u2019 stories… As we said last week, THIS is a MAJOR [WHITE HOUSE] problem.” They\u2019re really, really worry about this. Now, when Obama was a senator… He just talked about how he\u2019s been working on VA issues since he was a senator, and he\u2019s so mad about this. Well, he sponsored — are you ready? — a whopping two bills about veterans. Both bills died in committee.<\/line><\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t do anything, but he pretends he did so much and cares so much, and that\u2019s the trick, folks. That\u2019s the magic with this Regime. But the fact of the matter is, this is worse than ever. It\u2019s worse under Obama. This kind of thing did not happen under George W. Bush. I don\u2019t care what Obama says. I don\u2019t care what his supporting media says. There were no hidden waiting lists. There were no secret waiting lists that people moved in and out of.<\/p>\n

There were no attempts to cover up the number of people being treated by the VA under George W. Bush. These hidden waiting lists are due to Obama\u2019s window dressing of a two-week waiting list mandate. That\u2019s all that\u2019s happening here, but it didn\u2019t happen under Bush. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: New York Times headline: “VA Accusations Aggravate the Woes of the White House.” No panic there yet. But this scandal is substantive, they think, at the New York Times, unlike Benghazi, IRS, Fast and Furious, Obamacare, and all that. This for some reason has the White House, the Regime, and the media is really, really, really worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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