Veterans Groups Lash Out at Republican Senator Cornyn and KanuckCruse

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WASHINGTON — An “open letter” from a senior Republican senator to the nation’s veterans in which he castigates the leadership of veterans organizations has prompted a brutal war of words over the Memorial Day weekend, including a promise from the Veterans of Foreign Wars that its “hat in hand” approach to Congress will turn more combative.

The burgeoning controversy over delayed access to care at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals has always contained risks for Republicans pushing the issue. The logical conclusions of the push would be either a politically difficult effort to privatize veterans’ health care or to supply substantially more money to a system burdened by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an option veterans groups have demanded but Republican leaders have resisted.

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Mr. Burr, along with other senior Republicans such as Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, has called on Mr. Shinseki to resign, a demand echoed by the American Legion but not by other veterans groups or by Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio. Mr. Boehner on Thursday said he was “getting a little closer” to demanding that the former four-star general step down.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/us/veterans-groups-lash-out-at-republican-senator.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140526&nlid=63085245&tntemail0=y&_r=0

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1. Seems they forgot

[PearliePoo2]

2. yeah, those pesky little "facts"

Your list should be its own OP!

[northoftheborder]

5. yes, so I can bookmark it.

[Thinkingabout]

3. In the recent past the republican Senators voted down a veterans anf the goose

Ball Cronyn is calling Shinseki to resign for not doing the job at the VA when in fact this do nothing congress does not perform. Cronyn, the votes by you and your fellow Republican Senators killed the bill for veterans. Shameful.

[ccinamon]

4. hardball time,,,,Shineski should call a press conference

and point out that all republicans in Congress have voted against all of the Veterans Bills over the past few years, and he will only resign when EVERY republican who has voted against Veterans benefits resigns first.

shut those fuckers up.