NEW YORK POST
by John Podhoretz
May 21, 2014
My nephew once told me his grandmother had bought him a gun but told him he wasn’t allowed to use it to kill anything that wasn’t already dead. He was 5 at the time.
He’s now 17 and says he’s in high school, but I suspect he may have secretly gone to work for the Obama administration’s damage-control team.
Who else could have come up with the White House strategy to deal with the damaging revelations about the health-care system for America’s veterans — which was to make a big public show of firing someone who had already retired?
This is the perfect public-policy analogue to a gun that can be used only to kill the already-dead.
At first, last week’s dismissal of a high-ranking official with the Dickensian name of Dr. Robert Petzel seemed like the least the administration could’ve done to respond to the cover-up of the lax, lazy and downright inhuman treatment provided to veterans at the government-run hospitals across the country — hospitals specifically and solely dedicated to their care.
The supposed firing came a day after a disastrous congressional hearing featuring Petzel and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.
But almost immediately, it turned out Petzel wasn’t dismissed at all; he’d announced his retirement months earlier and was only staying on until his successor was confirmed.
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