Republicans never questioned the cost of sending our military to Afghanistan/Iraq but now want to claim the country is too impoverished to cover the cost of their injuries. The national debt has never been an impediment to giving tax breaks to CEOs or bailing out big banks, but, when it come to caring for our wounded vets, well, we just cannot afford it. The GOP's message is clear: “We love you when you are able, but we owe you nothing when you are broken.”
The scandal is not that Gen. Shinseki misused VA resources. It is that Congress has misplaced fiscal priorities! Republicans are upset that the VA did not have a procedure to schedule a wounded vet to see a doctor who did not exist! How callus is that! The shortages at VA have been there for decades and the fault rests entirely with Congress!
But, by letting Shinseki go, gives credence to the idea that management, not a lack of resources, was at fault and, in so doing, you have given comfort and credibility to the very people who have put partisan advantage, fiscal ideology and misdirected frugality ahead of caring for our wounded warriors.