Nancy Pants, a Marine in Mexico and Ronald McDonald

Mark Levy
Fri, 23 May 2014 21:00:00 -0700
Opinion

Dear Mark: Nancy Pelosi is back in the news, and as usual it's because she said something stupid. Well liberals and the media don't think it's stupid, but those of us with common sense see the ridiculousness of her statements. Nancy Pelosi actually tried to blame the VA mess on George Bush. Barack Obama has been president for over five years, how much longer can they blame Bush before the media finally catches on to this lame excuse? — Tom in Temple

Dear Tom: Ahhh, Nancy Pelosi, the gift that keeps on giving to conservative columnists everywhere. The former Speaker of the House really thought she had found a way to deflect blame from the Obama administration when she spoke of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as reasons why the VA was overwhelmed.

Nice try, but a true executive would have anticipated the increased traffic at the VA due to two recent wars and would have made the appropriate adjustments in order to provide the proper service to our military veterans. Somehow all of that community organizing is not translating too well to leading the free world.
Updated: Sat May 24, 2014

Dear Mark: Nancy Pelosi is back in the news, and as usual it's because she said something stupid. Well liberals and the media don't think it's stupid, but those of us with common sense see the ridiculousness of her statements. Nancy Pelosi actually tried to blame the VA mess on George Bush. Barack Obama has been president for over five years, how much longer can they blame Bush before the media finally catches on to this lame excuse? — Tom in Temple

Dear Tom: Ahhh, Nancy Pelosi, the gift that keeps on giving to conservative columnists everywhere. The former Speaker of the House really thought she had found a way to deflect blame from the Obama administration when she spoke of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as reasons why the VA was overwhelmed.

Nice try, but a true executive would have anticipated the increased traffic at the VA due to two recent wars and would have made the appropriate adjustments in order to provide the proper service to our military veterans. Somehow all of that community organizing is not translating too well to leading the free world.

Pelosi's comments are not by accident. Team Obama has once again devised a political strategy of feign indignation, deflect blame and hope the media drops the story. The truth is that the Obama administration is terrified that the mess at the VA will be linked to Obamacare, and with good reason. The VA health care system is a 100-percent-complete government controlled health care program and, as we are learning, is rife with fraud, corruption and inefficiency. Unfortunately there have also been numerous deaths as well. Is anybody on the left ready to apologize to Sarah Palin yet?

Not that facts matter to liberals or the media these days, but the Iraq war was supported by 40 percent of House Democrats and 58 percent of Senate Democrats. I guess San Fran Nan might want to take her argument up with her own party before disparaging the previous administration.

Dear Mark: To use the words of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, I'm "mad as hell" that one of our fine Marines is sitting in a Mexican jail over a simple driving mistake near our southern border. Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi accidently drove into Mexico, and as a result has been sitting in a Tijuana jail for almost two months. It seems like our government is doing nothing. What kind of gutless idiots do we have running this country? — USA-USA-USA

Dear USA: You've already answered your own question; it appears we have John Kerry running foreign affairs for us.

I understand that dealing with Vladimir Putin can be challenging. However, are you telling me that the United States has lost so much clout on the world stage that President Obama or Secretary of State John Kerry can't even make one phone call to Mexican President Pena Nieto to free one Marine from a Mexican jail? Well, at least Obama and Nieto have something in common — they're both presidents who won't deport anybody.

That liberal foreign policy mantra of walk softly and lose the big stick has really paid off. Maybe the First Lady can start a Twitter campaign and hold up a piece of paper that reads #BringbackourMarine.

Dear Mark: McDonalds' workers are protesting for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, and stormed the corporate headquarters to make their point. Obviously economics is irrelevant to these disgruntled employees. — Big Mac

Dear Mac: Too often in the minimum wage debate billion dollar corporations are attacked when the reality is that millions of small businesses could be adversely affected by such short-sighted legislation. My advice: Forget about Ronald McDonald and go after the clowns in Washington to create more jobs.