Quote from Barth Vader:
Overall, I find your remarks to be an acceptable and accurate synopsis of the argument at hand.
My problem with the initial proposal, which I would even endeavor to speculate that Mr. Obama had no prior knowledge of, was that it was even a proposel in the first place !!
The politically frightening aspect of this fiasco, was that somewhere in the halls of government, a person(s) is receiving a tax payer funded salary and benefits who did not understand that in their zeal to slash costs (and if I may be so bold, slash costs on line items obviously not on the administrations "do not touch list") they were breaching a hallowed tradition of the nation ( not BlueCross or Aetna) to honor and maintain those who have given more for the nation than most of us could imagine.
It was a grievous error in judgement and a rookie political mistake, which to be fair, I believe Mr. Obama corrected upon realization of the matter.