I have to say, I remain impressed by your dedication to upholding the image of a pure, undiluted partisan hack.
I knew the mere mention of Liz Warren as Fauxahontas would draw you out.
Your insistence on continuing to defend this psycho and her not only ridiculous lie every time she brings up her family history, but her demonstrative profiteering off of this speaks a lot more towards your own partisan hackery then it does my own. She's a freaking fraud, (not just on this), the media in trying to run cover for her has done more to argue towards Trump's point that they're just a mass entity of lying twats then he ever could. You got ABC News actually running the beginning of their story as "Senator Warren calling the Presidents bluff!" Yea, she called it alright, with the worst hand I've ever seen. Time running a headline that she was proven right. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
As for the second quote, maybe my priorities are out of whack, but yes I'll be willing to let a little frivolous spending go from the VA if it means 17 veterans don't die due to inaction and bureaucracy from a horrifically mismanaged system. Like what happened under the previous administration for example.
You're right, efforts to privatize the VA have rotted the agency. Full single payer now.
Just to recap:
The VA under the closest thing to a universal system we had in this country: people dying on waiting lists, rampant corruption.
The VA privatized: some funds are being directed to prevent statues from being torn down by crazy, fat, blue haired leftists. Like the ones seen blocking traffic in Portland.