General Shinseki resigns...

Argghhh!


Thank you for your service, General.  Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Secretary Shinseki had a meeting with the President at 10:15AM Eastern. Looks like I was off by a week on the General entering a new phase of his life.

The key take-away from all this is - while Shinseki properly gets to shoulder the blame - this is not entirely his fault. The VA needs a serious revamp and culture shift, a culture that has been venal since, oh, 1921, and screwed with 3 generations of my family.

And that means the new Secretary needs to be a head-hunter, with the tools and ability to do so.

Like it or no - and it will disrupt services - there needs to be a bureaucratic Night of the Long Knives in the VA upper management culture. There should be a lot of figurative jumping from the windows, because a far-ranging series of defenestrations, voluntary and involuntary, are going to be needed to fix the cultural issue.

Read the complete post at http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2014/05/general_shinsek.html


Posted May 30 2014, 09:48 AM by Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..