Bill O'Reilly out of nowhere shockingly
decided to go after coral rolf
for the VA health care scandal in 2005 under president bush was a3
billion dollar shortfall in funding for the veterans healthcare
and a variety of other problems at the VA under the Bush administration so
what is the essential problem here why can't the government fix this
yeah we'll look fix this we gotta be careful what we describe is this
with bush came into office the problem facing the Veterans Administration
was an unbelievably long period of time needed between the time that somebody
applied for coverage in from the Veterans Administration
to win the determination was made on average it took two hundred and thirty
days
from the time you applied for for disability benefits
to the time the determination was made it was also when we came into office
well we we look at the VA and and found it to be horribly underfunded so bush
over his current term in office double the size of the budget nearly double the
size and budget the Veterans Administration
and put six billion dollars into upgrading and modernizing in building
new facilities
and created a billion-dollar new fun in order to deal with
traumatic brain injuries and with post us
traumatic stress I but our problem was different than the problem that the
Obama administration faces ours will simply
the issue I love taking hundreds of thousands of people who have been waitin
on average 230 days to get a determination whether or not they were
eligible and covered by the VA
and trying to reduce it by by spending all this money by improving systems
he got down to an average about a hundred and 61 days by the time the bush
left office by 2012 was back up
above the 230 wire did when we came in office to 260
but that led to what I've got here okay let me make two comments because
president bush
often involve the nation into in very intense wars
he had to upgrade to be a facilities everybody knows it
but this is what I want an answer to and I watch it a step at a partisan shoes
for a moment
when president bush left office after eight years
the VA itself made a report to the incoming Obama people
alright in the report said quote-unquote the problems in causes associated with
scheduling waiting times a waiting list at the BR
I systemic saw the problems existed
on the day now to boil loud I don't know if it's now
now no that's what we what he has right after I don't know
for personal it is not a VA report is a report from people assigned by the Obama
campaign
to their transition planning these were probably thailand is what's your address
true I think let me to just over all you have done everything else previous
involvement
you're alright but here we let marge schott it is not I'll
let me describe what the problem was bill you're complaining again
the job I have to launch a record year old mister although I didn't know either
nope let me quote where this came from
so the audience not this came from
VA officials alright it was published by CBS News
that's where it came from now you can explain why is not
damn man every once in a while
I keep saying it every once in a while when O'Reilly does is he throws a bone
out there actually does his job where dole
say gives him the facade a
respectability so that now for the next six months he can continue to be
are right-wing douchebag but every once in a while he goes out there you go
I didn't know he was capable of doing that he did it here he did it if you
remember
by with Dick Cheney about the Iraq war he really pushed a man and said
why we go there's really no reason for that now of course
it's ridiculous because he was one of the biggest cheerleaders in getting us
in there in the first place on out after the fact
he's like cracking down on cheney to a space about it but again that's what
they do
and that megan kelly all do it every once in a while Fox News and a few
people
arm ship Smith where every once in a while to give the veneer of
respectability which allows them to say see were fair and balanced because want
that one time I did my job okay but look men Elise
it least in this respect he possible parole
rove pretty good and there's so many different parts that I love so
when O'Reilly's talking about how these terrible problems existed under the Bush
administration at the VA to
row just goes no now no now now now
what a great intellectual point that is Karol when you disagree just scream know
the top year-long like a child
and then also that the oldest up right-wing trick in the book when you
don't have a good response well what do you do you just claim there's a liberal
bias
%uh know that report that was done by the VA was actually done by the VA was
done by
liberals that Obama said
should do the report or something and if you notice you actually slipped in the
were
probably too it's probably done by
liberals Obama pic to do the report and rallies like
from not so much I have the report run from me and here's what it says
and then the the part where all Riley opens it up by saying
yet there was a three billion dollar shortfall under Bush at
the Viet what he had to say
and then let the bullshit flow from growth and when he says
it now here's a very important part when he says when rope says bush doubled the
size of the VA budget
yeah and he needed to make it about 46 times bigger
why because he started the Iraq war in the Afghanistan war
and there were there was an influx just in explosion %uh veterans the needed
health care
so bring to double it actually you know that's not
nearly enough compared to what he needed to do and then
the rover also fucked up big time because he bragged at one point he
bragged about
no no and by the time bush left office there was a 161 day
waiting period that's not anything to brag about shouldn't be a zero day
waiting period
and but here's another part about this that I find incredibly interesting
for the past five days republicans all on Fox News
have been pretending that looking out understand something the VA scandal is
not a matter of funding
okay if you find immoral wouldn't fix anything what it really is about is this
is a government system a government system sock
and we should privatize it but notice what I drove
admit to their the whole premise of his argument was
know if we need to fund more that's the whole point and pushed it that's a bush
did I
what happened I thought that all the right-wingers were saying funding is not
the issue in only to find it more
now all the sudden you're admitting that funding and more is the answer I thought
it was in the answer
they're contradicting themselves why because he was pushed up against the
wall
arm by oreilly
so look they do a shitty job most the time
but in this respect he he did do a good job and the last thing I'll say is
it's not in issue and whether we're talking about bush
or whether we're talking about Obama this solution to it is simple
you need to have congress the president can't do it the administration can do
you need to have congress
pass a bill that says okay we're gonna give
X amount more funding and then they can hire X amount more people at the VA
and algorithm waiting list because all article 1 section 7 the Constitution
all but spending bills need to originate in the House of Representatives
okay congress needs to lead congress has to do it
so for what they're doing now with the house is doing now is they're doing this
dog-and-pony kabuki theater nonsense for the trying to grant and say Aussie the
democrats are democrats are democrats are decision
that you know the VA's in trouble the is in trouble be in trouble it less talky
more
activity yes the VA is in trouble you guys need to lead and pass a bill the
funds it more and then
Obama will sign it right away that's the issue underlying all a bit and nobody's
coming through all the garbage is saying it
point blank period like that and they should