O’Reilly, Rove Get Heated over VA Mismanagement Under Bush Admin

Bill O’Reilly has been incredibly critical of President Obama‘s stewardship of the VA under his presidency, but when he faced off against Karl Rove Wednesday night, he had to call the Bush administration out for VA mismanagement and issues with veterans getting proper care under the Republican president’s watch.

Rove argued that the VA issues under Obama are very different from the VA issues under Bush, arguing that for one thing, no one under Bush had a secret list, and they managed to whittle down the backlog before it shot back up again under Obama’s watch.

O’Reilly pointed out that Bush got the nation stuck in two wars, which necessitated some of the VA facilities they built, and pointed out the only reason Obama knew about problems with the VA in 2008 in the first place was because the report was looking at the VA under Bush. Rove disputed that, and the two men went back and forth a bit arguing over the report.

But even though Rove said the Bush team managed some VA fixed, O’Reilly insisted that “for twelve years,” veterans were simply not treated well.

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