{"id":71858,"date":"2020-05-09T14:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/05\/22\/slap-in-the-face-to-veterans-senate-dems-block-va-bill-reserve-outrage-for-the-redskins-video\/"},"modified":"2020-05-09T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T14:02:45","slug":"slap-in-the-face-to-veterans-senate-dems-block-va-bill-reserve-outrage-for-the-redskins-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/71858","title":{"rendered":"‘Slap in the face to veterans!’ Senate Dems block VA bill, reserve outrage for the Redskins&nbsp;[video]"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rorycooper\/status\/469529380109430787\n<p>Yesterday, despite 33 Democrats who voted no, the <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/33-democrats-opposed-a-bill-to-make-va-bureaucrats-easier-to-fire\/\">House passed the Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act<\/a>, which “would relax the standard bureaucratic red tape that makes it exceedingly difficult to fire government employees,&nbsp;<a style=\"color:#fc3803\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/349115\/firing-lois-lerner-daniel-foster\">even those implicated in an embarrassing scandal<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Senate Democrats weren’t quite&nbsp;so receptive to the prospect of accountability for VA employees. Today,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hdSo_EwfBVk&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Marco Rubio requested<\/a> that the Senate take up and pass the bill. Vermont&nbsp;socialist&nbsp;Bernie Sanders, speaking on behalf of the&nbsp;Dems, agreed to … <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/blog\/senate-democrats-just-blocked-a-bill-to-increase-accountability-at-scandal-plagued-veterans-affairs-department\/\">a hearing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GOPLeader\/status\/469534046025166848\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AndrewStilesUSA\/status\/469529962484338690\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rorycooper\/status\/469529706388529152\n<p>Followed by&nbsp;a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markknoller\/status\/469572829877661700\">pair of fundraisers<\/a>. Because priorities, right? Like President Obama, Senate Dems clearly have a firm grasp on what matters. They’ll get to the vets eventually or something. When they’re done&nbsp;caring about the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/10968190\/senators-puts-pressure-washington-redskins-nfl\">really important things<\/a>:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/CRENpolitics\/status\/469569461008076800\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheBrandonMorse\/status\/469558418848493569\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RBPundit\/status\/469566380824875009\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Tark31\/status\/469567672209141760\n<p>Pathetic.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jimmygill\/status\/469537254613221376\n<p>Our heroes deserve so much better than this.<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/05\/22\/slap-in-the-face-to-veterans-senate-dems-block-va-bill-reserve-outrage-for-the-redskins-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/05\/22\/slap-in-the-face-to-veterans-senate-dems-block-va-bill-reserve-outrage-for-the-redskins-video\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/rorycooper\/status\/469529380109430787 Yesterday, despite 33 Democrats who voted no, the House passed the Department of Veterans Affairs Management Accountability Act, which “would relax the standard bureaucratic red tape that makes it exceedingly difficult to fire government employees,&nbsp;even those implicated in an embarrassing scandal.” Unfortunately, Senate Democrats weren’t quite&nbsp;so receptive to the prospect of accountability for VA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/71858\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">‘Slap in the face to veterans!’ Senate Dems block VA bill, reserve outrage for the Redskins&nbsp;[video]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":71859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[416,316,42959,42958,42960,382,42961,42962],"class_list":["post-71858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-government","tag-president-obama","tag-senate-democrats","tag-senate-dems","tag-the-redskins","tag-va","tag-va-management-accountability-act","tag-washington-redskins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/15889959436467-screen-shot-2014-01-10-at-1-33-07-pm.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}