Mean Jean Schmidt strikes again.
Democrats and a group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans blasted Rep. Jean Schmidt on Wednesday for saying she found the reported poor conditions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to be “overblown by both politicians and the media.”
Schmidt, a Miami Township Republican, wrote about her recent visit to the medical center, saying she found “clean living spaces” at the Walter Reed complex and although Building 18, the focus of the Feb. 18 Washington Poststory, was “beneath the standard of what is acceptable,” the whole situation had been overblown.
“I think it is wrong to suggest that mold found behind an air conditioner somehow is an excuse to say that all of our veterans are receiving substandard medical care,” she wrote.
Jon Soltz, an Iraq war veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org, a political group that raises money for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans running for Congress, said in a news release this afternoon the only thing that’s overblown is the notion that Schmidt respects those who serve in combat.
What an absolute moron Schmidt is. What a travesty for the state of Ohio.
What a travesty for the state of Ohio.
Oh, I don’t know. She doesn’t say “Beam me up Scotty” with a dead beaver stapled to her skull.
Hey, at least Traficant was funny. She’s just vile.
Anybody that questions the liberal view of things is never just incorrect.
They are always “vile”, or an idiot or a moron.
Seems to me, that that says more about the liberals than their targets.
It’s not the “liberal view”, Frank. It’s the objective reality. Look into it. You regularly post here about how liberals are the source of evil, yet, when someone points out a dumb con you ring the alarm bells.
Gawd, what an idiot-filled place Ohio-2 must be if it keeps sending this she-bozo to congress.
I’m sure there are a lot of intelligent people there, but I feel sorry for them, they are clearly outnumbered.
“It’s the objective reality.”
And that’s it in a nutshell. There’s reality and there’s what conservatives think. The two have rarely been in sync the last eight years.
I have no idea whether Rep. Schmidt is dumb or not. It wouldn’t be the first time that a situation was blown out of proportion by the media and by politicians on either side of the aisle.
The investigation is not over, but we’ve already heard from the usual suspects. And there have been reports from veterans / patients who were at Walter Reed, and other hospitals, and said that it wasn’t all that bad.
The hospital I go to (Bronx VAMC) has the usual bureaucratic problems, but is clean and well – kept, and the medical care has improved over the years.
There’s a story floating around that Walter Reed has been trying to get private maintenance in to the hospital for years, but with no success. I’m fairly certain that that might have made a difference.
There are also commentators saying that firing the head of the hospital was the absolute worst thing to do.
Getting him, and the maintenance personnel, to do their jobs would have produced much better results.
We are talking about improving services for veterans, and not embarrassing Republicans, are not.
And calling conservatives “out of touch with reality” probably qualifies as the Stupidest Comment Of The Day.
Congratulations
We are talking about improving services for veterans, and not embarrassing Republicans, are not.
Should be:
We are talking about improving services for veterans, and not embarrassing Republicans, are we not?
What you are saying has no basis in reality Frank. By all accounts – Republican and Democrat alike – the conditions in the specific area of Walter Reed were atrocious and certainly not what our military should be in after serving in this war. Once again, this is objective fact not subject to partisan posturing. That it happened under President Bush is as valid as if it had happened under President Clinton. Running around denying reality like you and Jean Schmidt are is just stupid. Read the article, even a Republican Rep. says Schmidt has no damn clue what the hell she’s talking about.
Even if you prefer conservative policies and conservative politicians, Schmidt is the bottom of the barrel. She cannot possibly be the most qualified conservative in that district. An aggressively recidivist moron, possibly stupider than Bush.
A poorly maintained outpatient facility in one hospital, is no reason to fire the Secretary of the Army, for crying out loud!
I don’t care if it was worse than the original Snake Pit, you don’t fire a subcabinet officer and a general over a maintenance problem.
That is overreaction, at best.
From yesterday’s (Fredericksburg) The Free – Lance Star :
Exaggerate much?
Schmidt was the one with either the gall or the ignorance to imply that John Murtha was a “coward,” right? And now she decides to stick her uninformed head into the Walter Reed fracas?
Maybe she’s really smart on a number of issues, but she keeps putting her foot in her mouth when she gets near anything military.
Oliver you WENT to WR right? I mean, you are speaking with direct knowledge here yes? You have been to a military hospital?
Let me tell you what you will find….
The hospital itself is in great shape. They routinely pass the JCHA inspections with better results than most civilian hospitals.
Attached to said hospital is a building that is used as a “TPU” a Transient Personnel Unit (thats what it was in the Navy at least). This is usually an old, dilapidated hospital building that has been turned into a barracks.
So it is entirely likely that what she said is correct, and of course, she has BEEN there…
You make it sound like Jon Soltz and his buds represent main stream veterans. Don’t think so. VoteVets is an anti-war activist group popualted by Democrats. They are active politically against the war.
Dugger:That’s what I meant when I said, “The investigation is not over, but we’ve already heard from the usual suspects.”
Dugger:That’s what I meant when I said, “The investigation is not over, but we’ve already heard from the usual suspects.”
Yes, because a red room isn’t red if a Democrat says so.
I don’t know what these guys are complaining about. They have running water. See, there it is coming out of the ceiling.
Sheesh.
But what you are doing Oliver is not saying “the room is red” you are saying “I heard the room was red, and anyone (even someone who has been there themselves) who says otherwise is a moron”
Whatever, typical OW “argument”, lots of fluff, no fact.
pedromd07 | Mar 23, 2007 12:22:45 PM
“Whatever, typical OW “argument”, lots of fluff, no fact.”
LoL … remember your repetitous promises of many months — possibly years — to abandon the blog precisely because of this reason?
No, but thanks for recognizing that OW has been writing this weak-ass shit for years now….
Says a lot about the power of OW that you’ve been promising to leave forever and just can’t figure out how to quit him!
just can’t figure out how to quit him!
That would seem to be your problem with me, eh, groupie?