February 19, 2016 --

A front-page story in The New York Times, February 7, charged Senator Sanders with regarding "mounting evidence" of "complaints"  about the treatment given  veterans at veterans hospitals  "as overblown, and as a play by conservatives to weaken one of the country's largest social welfare institutions."  

Sanders, the article noted, was chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee at the time, May 2014.   The Times, May 31, 2014, in its lead editorial on the V.A. matter commented on the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.  

This editorial included the charge that Republicans are "fond of cheap, simplistic fixes" and called "particularly offensive...the eruptions of indignation from senators like [Republican]  John McCain of Arizona, in whose home state the Phoenix [V.A.] scandal arose.

Given the penchant at The New York Times to demonize Republicans and conservatives, LPR is very surprised to find in the Times perhaps  a smidgen of criticism of B. Sanders for playing politics with the V.A. scandal.  

Do Hillary Clinton's presidential prospects now appear that much in trouble to the Times?