Shinseki Resigns, Carney Follows Behind. Wolves Complain That It's Not Enough

I'm not sure who's sad about Shinseki, but I can tell you who is not.

Eric Shinseki is out and Jay Carney has chosen to follow close behind.  I've heard of lame duck, even roasted lame duck, but Republican's are burning this Kenyan water foul (by way of Hawaii and Illinois) to a crisp.

After weeks of attempting to stand firmly behind his buddy "Rick", Obama had to pull the plug and give the wolves what they were demanding, as Shinseki, who serves at the pleasure of the president, is no longer serving or pleasing this president. The official line is that he is stepping down as requested by the hunters who demanded someone be held to account for the VA failures of late.

If you know anything about hunting, you never let go of a trail until you lose the sent.  Once you've committed, shifting gears represents a significant loss of the time that you've already given.  As long as the wolves continued to smell the aroma of lamb, they wanted a sacrifice.

In the end, Shinseki was sacrified but Carney is another story; possibly a book that we shall read in the near  future. Carney could call it,  If You Can't Stand Roasted Duck Get Out Of The Kitchen".  Hopefully we won't read it before Obama is done.  While losing press secretaries is common, especially within the waning months of a lame duck presidency, this one smells foul (pun intended)
and will be the subject of much speculation going forward.

As for Shinseki, he came just short of being Isaac in this story.  Though Obama held the knife aloft for as long as he could stand, he eventually did not get the reprieve that he hoped time would offer.  In the old days, stand by your man politics was a winning proposition.  Eventually the wolves would tire of chasing down a fruitless trail and would move on to more pressing matters. With Benghazi sounding like the punchline of way too many political jokes these days and ObamaCare well on its way to becoming nothing more than another one of those social programs that we pay for, VA overload has taken front and center.  Whether the meal is one that these wolves will ever consume is secondary to the pursuit.  In the end, this bone has meat and ObamaCare and Benghazi are drying carcasses.

The wolves have gotten their lamb, but this meal will remain elusive to the carnivores who are pursuing it to satisfy political hunger because only the blameless get to eat of it.  No matter how hard you dig for answers on this one, the truth is that we have long since had problems with EVERY aspect of our care for our returning soldiers of war.  Digging will only reveal all of our complicit behaviors.

Obama might have felt the need to do the politically expedient thing, but attempting to satisfy hungry wolves is never politically expedient. Once you feed any wild animal you will probably have to euthanize them because they will turn you into a source of food.  As we speak, Speaker John Boehner is declaring the firing of Shinseki an appetizer to the VA meal he and his cohorts hope to enjoy.  If Shinseki was not enough, than surely no one below him will satisfy this hunger. Boehner and the boys are on the trail of Moby Dick and Jack Mackerel simply won't cut it.

Stubbornness in the face of opposition is a double edged sword, but if you stand on the side of justice you need not be concerned.  In firing Shinseki, Obama either acknowledges a wrong doing or is simply caving in to the opposition because he has felt the other edge of that sword much too closely for comfort.

Both answers should be concerns to Obama supporters and critics alike.