Shocking audio: Colorado congressman compares VA to ISIS

[angka]

On 850 KOA radio today, it'll turn your stomach:

https://soundcloud.com/coloradopols/rep-mike-coffman-compares-the-va-to-isis

MIKE COFFMAN: It’s too bad we can’t take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under the VA’s leadership.

Can you imagine if the VA was in charge of ISIS? They’d probably say, “Well, you know it wasn’t quite 2,000 that we beheaded – it was really 24…is the accurate number. We’re sorry that, in fact, they were all our own terrorists that were beheaded because they got misclassified in the system as Christians.”

I mean, that would be the VA (chuckles)…that would be the VA in charge of ISIS.

So, clearly we need to clean house. We need better leadership. The President needs to be engaged on this and other issues.

STEFFAN TUBBS: I don’t know what they’re putting in your orange juice back there…

APRIL ZESBAUGH: (laughing) He’s on a roll!

[Warpy]

1. They certainly turn into hamfisted stumblebums when Republicans are in charge

I've worked in the VA system and I certainly saw it. The Republicans appoint incompetent cronies at the top and work to underfund it.

So Coffman was absolutely correct, but only when his own party is in office.

However, to be fair, he didn't compare then to ISIS. He just had a cheap laugh about what a Republican led VA hierarchy would do to ISIS.