Just a few hours after meeting with and speaking to a homeless veteran group, V.A. Secretary Ric Shiseki has tendered his resignation, President Obama tells us. He also tells us it’s because Shinseki doesn’t want to be a “distraction”.

Whatever.

Let us go back nearly fourteen years, back to when I first met my beloved Jonn over at This ain’t hell… That was when I first encountered the absolute idiocy that is Ric Shinseki due to his stroke of genius in wanting to give to the entire Army the black beret of the Rangers (made in China, I should add) so they’d feel like special snowflakes. Nah, not a distraction at all.

Now he doesn’t want to be a distraction? Yeah, no. Shinseki is not now, nor has he been in tune with the best interests of the military man and woman, but he does know how to play a mean distraction.

What he doesn’t want is to be held accountable for his inaction in regards to the health and well-being of veterans. Delays at the VA are nothing new. My own father, a Vietnam vet, didn’t receive benefits until three decades after he got back, and it took over two years for him to even see a doctor. Hell, Obama even spoke of the disrepair of the VA when he was a Senator. They both were aware, but neither has the testicular fortitude to do anything about it.

Make no mistake, Shinseki is resigning semantically only. There is no doubt in my mind that Obama asked him to in lieu of actually being presidential and giving him the ax for not doing his job in the first place, a lapse in responsibility that COST VETERANS LIVES. Why, that would mean Herr Barry was responsible as well, wouldn’t it?

They can both go to hell, but PPOTUS should damn well make sure the inexorable behavior towards our veterans is fixed before he books that trip. Not-firing a poor excuse for a VA Secretary that he appointed is barely a nudge in that direction.