Drudge Report is highlighting on Friday an article that outlines how Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, has been blaming former president George W. Bush for the Veterans Affairs scandal.
Drudge, a popular conservative website that links to articles, has an article from the Washington Examiner on the top of its front page, prominently displayed with a picture of Pelosi, D-Calif.
The opinion article by Joel Gehrke notes that Pelosi alluded to Bush early and often in a press briefing, although she never mentioned him by name.
For instance, she said that the scandal is a high priority for President Barack Obama, “He sees the ramifications of some seeds that were sown a long time ago, when you have two wars over a long period of time and many, many more, millions more veterans. And so, I know that he is upset about it.”
She also said: “Maybe when we go into war, we should be thinking about its consequences and its ramifications. You would think that would be a given, but maybe it wasn’t. And so, we go in a war in Afghanistan, leave Afghanistan for Iraq with unfinished business in Afghanistan. Ten years later, we have all of these additional veterans. In the past five years, two million more veterans needing benefits from the VA. That’s a huge, huge increase.”
And Pelosi also suggested that Obamacare might be the key to solving the problem.
“We have the Affordable Care Act that is out there that is providing resources for more federally-qualified health clinics around the country,” Pelosi said.
“Maybe we should take a look at how we deal with our veterans’ needs in a way that says let’s help them closer to home, whether that’s a federally qualified health clinic or in some other institution that provides health care closer to home. [It’s] especially important for our veterans who live in rural areas.”
