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We met with dr. Shelton after he was sworn in, and elected and voted on the senate 1000, which was amazing in todays climate. Accountability like that was the first thing that came out of his mouth. So we had looked at and accountability will to be able to allow the v. A. To more quickly terminate poor performing employees. Most of the employees, i know many of them, we have a major center. They are dedicated to taking care of veterans. A poor performing employee hurts them and what they are doing. We just want to give the secretary the tools, and we passed an accountability bill out of the house already, which shortens the length of time it takes to discipline a poor performing employee while still allowing them their due process. And when i say slow down, it is still about two months. It is not like where you may be terminated today. It is still a couple months process even with this expedited method that we are looking at. And senator rubio is going to be carrying a companion bill o
With the right answers. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. What president obama failed to do. That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. One thing about barack obama, hes a confident guy. He makes me look shy. Yesterday in greece he told the world that he did a heck of a job as president. People seem to think i did a pretty good job. So there is this mismatch between frustration and anger, perhaps the view of the American People is that just need to shake things up. I think i can make a pretty strong argument that the politics we put forward were the right ones, that weve grown faster than any advanced economy, and the country is indisputably better off. Now mr. Obama really believes what he says. In his mind he kicked serious butt as president and he has backup. The latest gallop poll has his Approval Rating at 57 . Strong number. However some of his support is based on pers
With the right answers. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. What president obama failed to do. That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. One thing about barack obama, hes a confident guy. He makes me look shy. Yesterday in greece he told the world that he did a heck of a job as president. People seem to think i did a pretty good job. So there is this mismatch between frustration and anger, perhaps the view of the American People is that just need to shake things up. I think i can make a pretty strong argument that the politics we put forward were the right ones, that weve grown faster than any advanced economy, and the country is indisputably better off. Now mr. Obama really believes what he says. In his mind he kicked serious butt as president and he has backup. The latest gallop poll has his Approval Rating at 57 . Strong number. However some of his support is based on pers
[applause] good morning everyone. I would like to welcome you to the National Defense university. I was a senior in high school when nixon did the great linebacker bombing offensive of christmas 1972. Not much better, only slightly. Today i want to talk with you guys about the air wars in vietnam. Given that i was not there, most of you guys were, if i am wrong, please shout out a correction. We have the air boards on vietnam because it is plural. There is no single airport in southeast asia. There are a multiplicity of air wars, disorganized, uncoordinated, not related to one another. No one single guy in charge. Of course, that is part of the problem. What im going to do is talk about the various air wars that existed there. , 8the way, all of them million tons of bombs in southeast asia. That is roughly five times the amount of bombs dropped by all allied air forces in world war ii. Im going to speak mostly about the air war over the north. The reason im going to do that is because