http://hotair.com/archives/2015/10/27/hillarys-defense-of-va-one-too-many-rides-on-the-vrwc-pony/Hillary’s defense of VA: One too many rides on the VRWC pony
posted at 6:41 pm on October 27, 2015 by Ed Morrissey
In 2008, Hillary Clinton repeatedly found ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, losing to Barack Obama. In the intervening seven years, she has not improved much as a candidate. Immediately after winning pundit plaudits for surviving her appearance at the Benghazi hearing by shrugging off the investigation as nothing more than silly politics, Hillary then made the same argument about … the Veterans Administration wait-list scandal:
She said the problem is real, but cautioned that “it’s not been as widespread as it has been made out to be” on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on Friday.
The former first lady blamed Republicans for using the issue as part of an “ideological agenda” and said they want the VA to “fail.”
“Now nobody would believe that from the coverage you see, and the constant berating of the VA that comes from the Republicans, in – in part in pursuit of this ideological agenda that they have,” Clinton said.
“They try to create a downward spiral, don’t fund it to the extent that it needs to be funded, because they want it to fail, so then we can argue for privatization.”
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