The Cure!

Nancy Pelosi has come up with the solution to the VA mess. But first, of course, she has to get in the obligatory "blame Bush" shot.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., repeatedly put the blame for the Veterans Affairs scandal on former President George W. Bush, while arguing that her party has worked hard for veterans in recent years.

Pelosi took a shot at Bush while saying that the scandal is a high priority for Obama...

Yeah, right. It's such a high priority that he hasn't done a damn thing about it since taking office - despite the fact that he knew about the problem back in 2008.

The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care — problems that have turned into a growing scandal.

Veterans Affairs officials warned the Obama-Biden transition team in the weeks after the 2008 presidential election that the department shouldn’t trust the wait times that its facilities were reporting.

Maybe I'm being a little unfair to barry. I'm sure the scandal is a high priority to him today. The priority, however, is figuring out how to shift the blame to someone else.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said the problems extended back before Mr. Obama’s term and that the president’s response once in office was to ask for more money to try to handle the flood of veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mr. Carney said critics should wait for the results of various investigations before placing blame, but he said the president has been on top of the situation since his campaign.

That's the obama way. Blame Bush for passing the problem on. Blame congress for not allocating enough funds. Blame everyone but yourself.

Anyway, according to Nancy Pelosi, the solution to the VA problem is close at hand. It is ... drumroll, please...

obamacare!!!

She suggested that Obamacare might hold the key to solving the problem. "We have the Affordable Care Act that is out there that is providing resources for more federally-qualified health clinics around the country," Pelosi said. "Maybe we should take a look at how we deal with our veterans' needs in a way that says let's help them closer to home, whether that's a federally qualified health clinic or in some other institution that provides health care closer to home.

I don't have enough time or adult beverages on hand to chronicle all the failures of obamacare so far (a good summary can be found here). Bottom line - it's a failed program that has proven incapable of helping the people it was intended to. How on God's green earth can anyone with an ounce of common sense seriously expect it to accommodate the nine million veterans currently depending on the VA for health care?

Oh, wait ... that's right ... we're talking about Nancy Pelosi...