AP: Veterans Secretary to resign

[quaoar]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Bush administration official has said that Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi is resigning.

This just moved on the wire. I'll post a link later.

[wuushew]

1. What are we up to now 8? 9?

This has to be some sort of record.

[Nikepallas]

2. Does this make 10 from BUSHCO?

[hatrack]

3. Nine, I think

Still waiting for Mineta to "spend more time with his family".

[wuushew]

6. Of course he will resign

There is only room for one token Democrat in the Bush cabinet. A position that will be filled by the new Agriculture Secretary.

[hatrack]

7. Johanns? He's as Republican as they come.

I agree, though, that Mineta has to go. As the token 1st-term Democrat, he's served his purpose and can leave now.

[wuushew]

11. Oops my bad

but I did find this

Johanns grew up on an Iowa dairy farm. He started in politics in 1981 as a Democrat, becoming Republican in 1988. "Those years on that diary farm did much to define who I am as a person," he said.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-12-02-bush-ag_x.htm

[Pirate Smile]

4. Well, Snow was going to be out but now he is back in. I still don't know

what that whole thing was about.

[napi21]

5. I don't know anything about Principi, but all the decent ones leave.

Paul O'Neil was on The Daily Show last night, and as I was listening to him, I realized that all the decent people who were associated with this admin are either gone or are leaving. I don't mean to say that everyone who left was good...Bremer comes to mind too...but everybody who tried to tell the truth, which always in opposition to shrubs ideas, gets booted out, or forced out.

[asjr]

8. I was surprised to find Snow is going to stay. Especially after the

"leak" that he could stay but not too long. The first thought (and a good one) that I had was Is something really going on? Do you think there is more to the vote recounting than we know? Maybe this administration is thinking the jig is up and instead of replacing Snow, if it is true, why bother with another appointment. As for Principi, I thought he was a favorite of Shrub.

[quaoar]

9. Here's a link from a TV station that includes Snow staying

http://www.fox41.com/news/news_detail.asp?id=19963§ion=2

[Career Prole]

10. In a shrubministration a Veterans Affairs Secretary is

a "do-nothing" position anyway.
He probably could have just gone home without telling anyone he was quitting and his absence would have been unnoticed.
:shrug:

[teryang]

13. With Principi out maybe veterans services could improve

As repukes they coveted the building and supply contracts for VA hospitals at the expense of veterans benefits. It takes a freakin year to see a doctor! Repuke officials would only intervene in favor of a vet if some Senator or representative started getting on them in an ombudsman capacity.

[luaneryder]

14. Right on about that

It literally takes the act of a congressperson or senator to push thru the bureaucracy of the VA. If you find one that cares enough to help.

[Just Me]

12. In the new fascist (corporate) America,...who cares,...really. eom

[Ima]

15. Another good one bites the dust.

The Veterans Affairs Department said Nov. 12 that it no longer will pay for studies that seek to show stress is the primary cause of mysterious ailments afflicting thousands of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War

For years the federal government has pointed to stress as the likely reason for the sicknesses. But Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi said the VA will set aside up to $15 million for a year of Gulf War illness research and none of the money will be used to pay for studies that propose stress as the only explanation for the ailments.
"I've made it clear none of the $15 million will be allocated for studies related to stress," Principi said. "We are going to look at other possible theories as to what may be causing these undiagnosed symptoms."
Principi's decision comes as a result of a report issued Friday by an advisory committee he appointed

The Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illness spent the past two years reviewing recent studies, including those done by Dallas epidemiologist Dr. Robert Haley, and recommended the VA abandon stress studies and focus on toxic substances veterans encountered during the war.

http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:1Z7ei1xSAiEJ:www.aerotechnews.com/Veterans.htm+%22Veterans+Affairs+Secretary+Anthony+Principi%22&hl=en

[bobthedrummer]

16. Tens of thousands Iraq/Afghanistan US wounded and he walks away.

:argh:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. As a VA employee, I say... Good Riddance to bad rubbish

he has been a disaster for employees of the VA.