So, the Veterans Administration was off bugging people. …As in, monitoring their communications.

Remember: the Veterans Administration was held up as a shining beacon by the Left on how to do socialized medicine.  Or should I say ‘Socialist?’ – Because this story is certainly, ah, evocative:

As the hearing stretched into the night, [House Veterans Affairs Chairman Jeff] Miller told the committee about a visit some committee staff took to the Philadelphia Regional Office earlier this month. As several committee aides were preparing to meet with officials July 2, one aide visited the restroom. In the restroom, the committee aide found a notebook that belonged to Acting Regional Director Diana Rubens,  apparently directing an official preparing for the briefing to ignore a certain committee aide’s questions. The notes also listed the names of two whistleblowers the committee had been in communication with as well as the names of committee investigators.

Rubens, who claimed that her comments on the notebook were taken out of context, and that she simply wrote the names down when they were mentioned to her.

The committee investigators were directed to a workspace at the regional office which was outfitted with cameras and microphones. Upon discovering they were being monitored, the aides requested to be moved.

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The Eric Shinseki Resignation Watch Clock is now engaged.

Embattled Democrats are starting to crack under the strain:

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki’s support on Capitol Hill crumbled on Wednesday as members of his own party deserted him in the aftermath of a highly critical inspector general report that found “systemic” problems at VA medical facilities.

Within just hours of the report’s release, the number of Democrats calling for Shinseki’s resignation more than doubled. By Wednesday evening, more than a dozen congressional Democrats publicly called for his ouster, joining a growing number of influential Republicans.

…turns out that your average at-risk Democratic Senator really does have a limit to how much water he’ll carry for President Barack Obama, and this load was just one jerry-can of Presidential* incompetence too many.  Not that it’ll save any of said Senators, but it’s a better alternative than continuing to go down with the ship.  At any rate, the next two days should be interesting…

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