More Dander Rising: Ditto to Dr. Poses

Let me second the emotion now recently and repeatedly voiced by Dr. Poses in these pages. It ' s getting real hard to separate the health policy and malfeasance fecaliths from the general Washington Schei ßsturm raining down on us. We all feel pretty much buffeted non-stop, like(whomp!)badminton shuttlecocks in the corruption game the prevaricator-in-chief seems happily destined to carry on forever. Or at least until some better angels out there in America rise up to put an end to it. Because it ' s pretty obvious the party hacks clearly aren ' t going to. They ' re way too busy (padre you ' re fired! padre you ' re unfired!) doing other important stuff. And avoiding the wrath (why invite trouble?) of the prevaricator-in-chief.Maybe tweets are effective covering fire. Maybe it ' s not a kakistocracy we live in so much as a tweetocracy.In fact it ' s also getting pretty easy to find the links between the micro- and the macro-misdeeds in today ' s kakistocracy. I want to talk about two of those today. Both stem from recent months ' events in the game of musical chairs at two of the most cost- and problem-ridden departments overseen by our executive branch. Of course, as the reader likely already surmised, these are health and human services and veterans ' affairs. Dr. Poses has in fact just posted on the latter, given the zany events in the previously barely-known White House Medical Unit.(In fact, in discussing what happens with the current administration Dr. P...
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