I was over at my Mother’s house today and turned on the television to one of the news channels while I worked [my Mother doesn’t have a good radio].

They did a story on the current VA scandal and included statements by John McCain and Jefferson Beauregard Miller. Those two have a lot of damn gall complaining about the VA.

The report of 40 deaths without healthcare at the Phoenix VA Hospital should not have come as a surprise to McCain. He is one of Arizona’s Senators, and I can’t believe that none of the 40 called his office. We have called four Senators and two Congresscritters over the delay in my Mother’s paperwork, so someone seriously ill would have certainly complained to their Congressional delegation. Where was John McCain when this was happening? Why did this come as a surprise?

Miller is the chairman of the committee that is supposed to be overseeing the VA. Why didn’t he know about the problems? Where was the Congressional oversight?

It is amazing that when there is a ‘scandal’ the committees never include their oversight role when looking to fix the blame.

Not everyone I’m dealing with is a hemorrhoid, there have been organizations and businesses that deal with death in a reasonable fashion.

The Davis Watkins Funeral Home made their process simple and straight-forward, keeping me informed of the progress. They are the people having to deal with the mess at Arlington.

Eglin Federal Credit Union took care of returning the necessary money to Social Security, and creating a new account. They are keeping both accounts open until we know that Social Security is sending my check to the new account.

Even the people on Eglin Air Force Base took care of all of the Department of Defense notifications required in minutes when I turned in my Mother’s ID card.

I still have the local Social Security office, the local VA office, and a commercial Bank to go, but there is definitely a light at the end of the tunnel for everything except the transfer of my Mother’s remains to Arlington.