No one left to blame: Obama owns Veterans Affairs reform now

Published August 8, 2014 10:00am ET



It has been a good couple of weeks for military veterans and their families, who may at long last see real reform at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

As an advocate for veterans, I have been generous with my criticisms of the VA and demands for new leadership of the agency. Over the past several years the VA has devolved into a toxic cesspool of dysfunction and corruption devoted to protecting a cosseted class of bureaucrats rather than serving veterans.

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