Thune: Obama’s Response to VA Scandal Is a ‘National Embarrassment’

Thune: Obama’s Response to VA Scandal ‘National Embarrassment’ (Washington Free Beacon)

Sen. John Thune (R., S.D.) on Tuesday slammed the Obama administration over their handling of the VA scandal in comparison to other scandals they’ve faced.

“Our contract with our servicemen and women is a sacred trust. Our men and women in uniform uphold their end of the contract, sometimes at the cost of their own lives,” Thune said on the Senate floor. “For us to fail to uphold ours is a disgrace and a betrayal of their sacrifice.”

“When it became clear that his health care website was a disaster, the president employed an all-hands-on-the-deck approach to fixing the problem, spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. In response to the V.A. disaster, on the other hand, the president has dispatched just a single staffer — a single staffer — to oversee the investigation. This is not acceptable,” Thune said.