Veterans Groups Lash Out at Republican Senator

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WASHINGTON — An “open letter” from a senior Republican senator to the nation’s veterans in which he castigates the leadership of veterans organizations has prompted a brutal war of words over the Memorial Day weekend, including a promise from the Veterans of Foreign Wars that its “hat in hand” approach to Congress will turn more combative.

The burgeoning controversy over delayed access to care at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals has always contained risks for Republicans pushing the issue. The logical conclusions of the push would be either a politically difficult effort to privatize veterans’ health care or to supply substantially more money to a system burdened by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an option veterans groups have demanded but Republican leaders have resisted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/us/veterans-groups-lash-out-at-republican-senator.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140526&nlid=63085245&tntemail0=y&_r=0

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1. Maybe they forgot there vote record again

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2. They stirred up a hornet's nest and will be sorry for it. eom

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3. All of them need to be stung, called out, and resign.