Commentary

VA Scandal Scapegoating: Don’t Blame Insufficient Spending, Bush or Iraq and Afghan Wars

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 05 2014

The burgeoning Department of Veterans Affairs scandal presages the dysfunctional future of ObamaCare, and it serves to erode what remains of Americans’ faith in the big-government model more generally. For that reason, liberals find themselves desperate to rationalize by trotting out their usual litany of scapegoats: insufficient spending, the Afghan and Iraq wars, George W. Bush and even the Koch brothers. “This predates my presidency,” pleaded Barack Obama in implicitly blaming Bush. “When I was in the Senate,” he said, “I was on the…

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