Veterans Affairs Dept.

Yesterday, according to Erica Werner at the Washington Post, Señor Trumpanzee signed "a sweeping new law... aimed at expanding veterans' access to private-sector health care.

Señor Trumpanzee has never been one for nuance, so when Putin's moron disguised as a president tweeted to his equality stupid supporters that Jon Tester should resign... well what more could anyone expect. He's un-nuanced and he's a more... but he has an instinct for savagery...

Nancy Ohanian feels Trump is an albatross around the neck of the GOPOn Saturday, Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, writing for the Washington Post, reported on Trump’s breakout.

After publicly humiliating VA Secretary David Shulkin and letting him twist in the wind for a week or two, as rumors swirled that he's on the way out-- just like Trump is doing to John Kelly and Ben Carson right now-- Señor T finally tweeted Wednesday that Shulkin, the only Trump cabinet appointee who had been confirmed by the Senate 100-0, was out.

Yesterday, Greg Sargent started the news cycle rolling at the Washington Post with a simple question: Will Donald Trump really go through with all of it?.

Last night I went to dinner with state Rep. Kaniela Saito Ing (D-Maui). Now state Senator Stanley Chang, once a Blue America congressional candidate, introduced us and told me he's one of the smartest and most progressive political leaders in Hawaii. At age 27, he's also the youngest chairperson in Hawaii's legislative history, heading up the Ocean, Marine Resources, and Hawaiian Affairs committee in the state legislature.

What drug company CEOs are doing to patients for a few dollars more (source)by Gaius PubliusSky-high drug prices are a scandal, but everyone knows that, even those responsible for the prices. They're also a source of enormous profit and wealth, which is the problem.

Bernie Sanders (I-VT), chairman of the Senate Veteran's Affairs Committee, and one of the most persistent and effective advocates for veterans anywhere in government, was on Face The Nation this morning. He was more constrained in his response to the V.A. scandal that Ken was in his report Friday evening after Shinseki had been forced to fall on his sword.

Predators on the right sense an opportunity. Reactionary sociopath and Tea Party icon Ben Carson is calling the V.A. disaster a gift from God.