Sequestration: Blame goes to GOP

[bripat9643]

What are the actual "loopholes by the wealthy"? Standard deductions?

They're the same "loopholes" that every homeowner and parent gets.

 

[Trajan]

Sequestration: Blame goes to GOP

"Obama has said he wants Congress to end tax loopholes enjoyed mainly by the wealthy to buy lawmakers enough time to pass a budget but Republicans are insisting on deeper spending cuts to reduce the $16 trillion national debt."

What is wrong with closing loopholes for the wealthy? Fair or not, it only makes it look like (or for some people it validates the argument), the GOP is shilling for the wealthy elites.

If the GOP wants cuts to programs let them name the cuts? Obama wanted taxes raise and he named the taxes he wanted raised. Why won't the GOP just be honest and open with the American people, and name the cuts they would hold America hostage for?

The latest game makes it look like they really want to force sequestration, while denying it is what they want to do. This way they get cuts without naming which ones they wanted. They are hedging bets -- betting against the American people, and betting that both parties and the President will share blame with the GOP.

This isn't governing, it's electioneering.

Dante

dD

Sequestration: Blame goes to Obama admin. for thinking it up and now whining about its impact




“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.

Nabors has told others that they checked with the president before going to see Reid. A mandatory sequester was the only action-forcing mechanism they could devise. Nabors has said, “We didn’t actually think it would be that hard to convince them” — Reid and the Republicans — to adopt the sequester. “It really was the only thing we had. There was not a lot of other options left on the table.”

Bob Woodward: Obama?s sequester deal-changer - The Washington Post




any questions?

 

[edthecynic]

Sequestration: Blame goes to GOP

"Obama has said he wants Congress to end tax loopholes enjoyed mainly by the wealthy to buy lawmakers enough time to pass a budget but Republicans are insisting on deeper spending cuts to reduce the $16 trillion national debt."

What is wrong with closing loopholes for the wealthy? Fair or not, it only makes it look like (or for some people it validates the argument), the GOP is shilling for the wealthy elites.

If the GOP wants cuts to programs let them name the cuts? Obama wanted taxes raise and he named the taxes he wanted raised. Why won't the GOP just be honest and open with the American people, and name the cuts they would hold America hostage for?

The latest game makes it look like they really want to force sequestration, while denying it is what they want to do. This way they get cuts without naming which ones they wanted. They are hedging bets -- betting against the American people, and betting that both parties and the President will share blame with the GOP.

This isn't governing, it's electioneering.

Dante

dD

Sequestration: Blame goes to Obama admin. for thinking it up and now whining about its impact




“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.

Nabors has told others that they checked with the president before going to see Reid. A mandatory sequester was the only action-forcing mechanism they could devise. Nabors has said, “We didn’t actually think it would be that hard to convince them” — Reid and the Republicans — to adopt the sequester. “It really was the only thing we had. There was not a lot of other options left on the table.”

Bob Woodward: Obama?s sequester deal-changer - The Washington Post




any questions?

Notice how all these mindless drones parrot the same misinformation. Woodward has been completely discredited by none other than Boner himself.

Please explain if the White House thought it up on July 27th how did Boner post it on his website on July 25th??????

Two-Step Approach to Hold President Obama Accountable | Speaker.gov

CAPS TO CONTROL FUTURE SPENDING

The framework imposes spending caps that would establish clear limits on future spending and serve as a barrier against government expansion while the economy grows. Failure to remain below these caps will trigger automatic across-the-board cuts (otherwise known as sequestration). This is the same mechanism used in the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement.
John Boehner, July 25, 2011

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Sequestration: Blame goes to GOP

"Obama has said he wants Congress to end tax loopholes enjoyed mainly by the wealthy to buy lawmakers enough time to pass a budget but Republicans are insisting on deeper spending cuts to reduce the $16 trillion national debt."

What is wrong with closing loopholes for the wealthy? Fair or not, it only makes it look like (or for some people it validates the argument), the GOP is shilling for the wealthy elites.

If the GOP wants cuts to programs let them name the cuts? Obama wanted taxes raise and he named the taxes he wanted raised. Why won't the GOP just be honest and open with the American people, and name the cuts they would hold America hostage for?

The latest game makes it look like they really want to force sequestration, while denying it is what they want to do. This way they get cuts without naming which ones they wanted. They are hedging bets -- betting against the American people, and betting that both parties and the President will share blame with the GOP.

This isn't governing, it's electioneering.

Dante

dD

Sequestration: Blame goes to Obama admin. for thinking it up and now whining about its impact




“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.

Nabors has told others that they checked with the president before going to see Reid. A mandatory sequester was the only action-forcing mechanism they could devise. Nabors has said, “We didn’t actually think it would be that hard to convince them” — Reid and the Republicans — to adopt the sequester. “It really was the only thing we had. There was not a lot of other options left on the table.”

Bob Woodward: Obama?s sequester deal-changer - The Washington Post




any questions?

Notice how all these mindless drones parrot the same misinformation. Woodward has been completely discredited by none other than Boner himself.

Please explain if the White House thought it up on July 27th how did Boner post it on his website on July 25th??????

Two-Step Approach to Hold President Obama Accountable | Speaker.gov

CAPS TO CONTROL FUTURE SPENDING

The framework imposes spending caps that would establish clear limits on future spending and serve as a barrier against government expansion while the economy grows. Failure to remain below these caps will trigger automatic across-the-board cuts (otherwise known as sequestration). This is the same mechanism used in the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement.
John Boehner, July 25, 2011

DENY THIS BITCH
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqD2h7e_MLg]Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Synthaholic]

PolitiFact | Barack Obama says Congress owns sequestration cuts

Woodward’s reporting shows clearly that defense sequestration was an idea that came out of Obama’s White House. But the intention was to force Republicans to negotiate, not to actually put the cuts into effect.

What's the date on that, Rebecca?

Bitch are you saying the left leaning politifact is lying? Are you calling Woodward a liar?

I'm saying that July 25 comes before July 27.

Are you disputing that?

 

[Synthaholic]

Sequestration: Blame goes to GOP

"Obama has said he wants Congress to end tax loopholes enjoyed mainly by the wealthy to buy lawmakers enough time to pass a budget but Republicans are insisting on deeper spending cuts to reduce the $16 trillion national debt."

What is wrong with closing loopholes for the wealthy? Fair or not, it only makes it look like (or for some people it validates the argument), the GOP is shilling for the wealthy elites.

If the GOP wants cuts to programs let them name the cuts? Obama wanted taxes raise and he named the taxes he wanted raised. Why won't the GOP just be honest and open with the American people, and name the cuts they would hold America hostage for?

The latest game makes it look like they really want to force sequestration, while denying it is what they want to do. This way they get cuts without naming which ones they wanted. They are hedging bets -- betting against the American people, and betting that both parties and the President will share blame with the GOP.

This isn't governing, it's electioneering.

Dante

dD

Sequestration: Blame goes to Obama admin. for thinking it up and now whining about its impact




“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.

Nabors has told others that they checked with the president before going to see Reid. A mandatory sequester was the only action-forcing mechanism they could devise. Nabors has said, “We didn’t actually think it would be that hard to convince them” — Reid and the Republicans — to adopt the sequester. “It really was the only thing we had. There was not a lot of other options left on the table.”

Bob Woodward: Obama?s sequester deal-changer - The Washington Post




any questions?

Read and learn:

How Bob Woodward's Book Debunks His Big Washington Post Op-Ed

 

[edthecynic]

Sequestration: Blame goes to Obama admin. for thinking it up and now whining about its impact




“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.

Nabors has told others that they checked with the president before going to see Reid. A mandatory sequester was the only action-forcing mechanism they could devise. Nabors has said, “We didn’t actually think it would be that hard to convince them” — Reid and the Republicans — to adopt the sequester. “It really was the only thing we had. There was not a lot of other options left on the table.”

Bob Woodward: Obama?s sequester deal-changer - The Washington Post




any questions?

Notice how all these mindless drones parrot the same misinformation. Woodward has been completely discredited by none other than Boner himself.

Please explain if the White House thought it up on July 27th how did Boner post it on his website on July 25th??????

Two-Step Approach to Hold President Obama Accountable | Speaker.gov

CAPS TO CONTROL FUTURE SPENDING

The framework imposes spending caps that would establish clear limits on future spending and serve as a barrier against government expansion while the economy grows. Failure to remain below these caps will trigger automatic across-the-board cuts (otherwise known as sequestration). This is the same mechanism used in the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement.
John Boehner, July 25, 2011

DENY THIS BITCH
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqD2h7e_MLg]Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts - YouTube[/ame]

The same dishonestly edited video, parroted by the same dishonest Misinformation Voter. So tell me what did Obama say immediately after your snippet ends that had to be dishonestly edited out?

Let's see if a typical Misinformation Voter can figure out something for himself. I'm betting you can't!

 

[bigrebnc1775]

What's the date on that, Rebecca?

Bitch are you saying the left leaning politifact is lying? Are you calling Woodward a liar?

I'm saying that July 25 comes before July 27.

Are you disputing that?

Are you now calling obama a liar?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqD2h7e_MLg]Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts - YouTube[/ame]

 

[AmericanFirst]

Sequestration: Blame goes to GOP

"Obama has said he wants Congress to end tax loopholes enjoyed mainly by the wealthy to buy lawmakers enough time to pass a budget but Republicans are insisting on deeper spending cuts to reduce the $16 trillion national debt."

What is wrong with closing loopholes for the wealthy? Fair or not, it only makes it look like (or for some people it validates the argument), the GOP is shilling for the wealthy elites.

If the GOP wants cuts to programs let them name the cuts? Obama wanted taxes raise and he named the taxes he wanted raised. Why won't the GOP just be honest and open with the American people, and name the cuts they would hold America hostage for?

The latest game makes it look like they really want to force sequestration, while denying it is what they want to do. This way they get cuts without naming which ones they wanted. They are hedging bets -- betting against the American people, and betting that both parties and the President will share blame with the GOP.

This isn't governing, it's electioneering.

Dante

dD

As usual, you are wrong. Obamaturd made the deal with Mitchell in 2011. Now he wants to raise taxes breaking the deal. Obamaturd is LYING as usual. But keep on supporting the fool. IDIOT!!!

 

[AmericanFirst]

Bitch are you saying the left leaning politifact is lying? Are you calling Woodward a liar?

I'm saying that July 25 comes before July 27.

Are you disputing that?

Are you now calling obama a liar?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqD2h7e_MLg]Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts - YouTube[/ame]

A libtard speaking the truth calling obamaturd a liar in which he is, how quaint.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

February 8, 2013


(Before It's News)

LD Jackson Calling Obama’s Bluff On Sequestration

Let me be honest. I am not a fan of President Obama, or the tactics he has used in his four years as President. He continually strikes me as having his nose up in the air, looking down on the rest of us peons. That would include how he treats his political opponents and is especially true when he is “negotiating” with them over how to deal with any given issue. If you can call what he does negotiating, which is quite a stretch. While we are on the honesty track, I’ll say one more thing. I don’t trust President Obama to do the right thing, not even a little. He has earned that distrust, fair and square.

Remember how sequestration was a big thing when it was first announced. It was a threat, designed to make both political parties work together to begin the fix for our financial woes. It should be noted, as much as President Obama wants to deny it, that sequestration was his idea. Yes, the man with the plan came up with sequestration. The stated purpose was to help fix our financial woes. The real purpose was to drive the Republicans into a political corner they couldn’t get out of. As much as I am not a fan of Speaker John Boehner and the rest of the Republican leadership in Congress, that gamble by President Obama may not have been a smart move for him.


(HumanEvents.com) For the first time since Election Day, President Obama is on the defensive. That’s because on March 1, automatic spending cuts (“sequestration”) go into effect — $1.2 trillion over 10 years, half from domestic (discretionary) programs, half from defense.

The idea had been proposed and promoted by the White House during the July 2011 debt-ceiling negotiations. The political calculation was that such draconian defense cuts would drive the GOP to offer concessions.

It backfired. The Republicans have offered no concessions. Obama’s bluff is being called and he’s the desperate party. He abhors the domestic cuts. And as commander in chief he must worry about indiscriminate Pentagon cuts that his own defense secretary calls catastrophic.

So Tuesday, Obama urgently called on Congress to head off the sequester with a short-term fix. But instead of offering an alternative $1.2 trillion in cuts, Obama demanded a “balanced approach,” coupling any cuts with new tax increases.

I have said before, I believe President Obama needs a dose of political reality. He has been touted as a master politician and he has done a fair job of living up to the moniker. At every turn, he has boxed the Republicans into places they found hard to get out of. Having the media in his back pocket and in the face of the Republicans hasn’t hurt, but that’s another story. I continue to believe that now would be a good time for that dose of political reality to come down on Obama’s head. The Republicans should call his bluff and make him take ownership of the political moves he has taken over the past four years.


What should the Republicans do? Nothing.

Republicans should explain — message No. 1 — that in the fiscal-cliff deal the president already got major tax hikes with no corresponding spending cuts. Now it is time for a nation $16 trillion in debt to cut spending. That’s balance.

The Republicans finally have leverage. They should use it. Obama capitalized on the automaticity of the expiring Bush tax cuts to get what he wanted at the fiscal cliff — higher tax rates. Republicans now have automaticity on their side.

If they do nothing, the $1.2 trillion in cuts go into effect. This is the one time Republicans can get cuts under an administration that has no intent of cutting anything. Get them while you can.


[Excerpt]

Read more:
Calling Obama?s Bluff On Sequestration | Politics

 

[Synthaholic]

Bitch are you saying the left leaning politifact is lying? Are you calling Woodward a liar?

I'm saying that July 25 comes before July 27.

Are you disputing that?

Are you now calling obama a liar?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqD2h7e_MLg]Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts - YouTube[/ame]

No, I'm calling you a fucking idiot.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Notice how all these mindless drones parrot the same misinformation. Woodward has been completely discredited by none other than Boner himself.

Please explain if the White House thought it up on July 27th how did Boner post it on his website on July 25th??????

Two-Step Approach to Hold President Obama Accountable | Speaker.gov

CAPS TO CONTROL FUTURE SPENDING

The framework imposes spending caps that would establish clear limits on future spending and serve as a barrier against government expansion while the economy grows. Failure to remain below these caps will trigger automatic across-the-board cuts (otherwise known as sequestration). This is the same mechanism used in the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement.
John Boehner, July 25, 2011

DENY THIS BITCH
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqD2h7e_MLg]Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts - YouTube[/ame]

The same dishonestly edited video, parroted by the same dishonest Misinformation Voter. So tell me what did Obama say immediately after your snippet ends that had to be dishonestly edited out?

Let's see if a typical Misinformation Voter can figure out something for himself. I'm betting you can't!

What fucking edit are you talking about?
[ame=http://youtu.be/VxegPMvxgEA]President Obama Super Committee Statement (November 21, 2011) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I'm saying that July 25 comes before July 27.

Are you disputing that?

Are you now calling obama a liar?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqD2h7e_MLg]Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts - YouTube[/ame]

No, I'm calling you a fucking idiot.

You are an idiot. that will defend obama's lie one right after another.

 

[edthecynic]

DENY THIS BITCH
Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts - YouTube

The same dishonestly edited video, parroted by the same dishonest Misinformation Voter. So tell me what did Obama say immediately after your snippet ends that had to be dishonestly edited out?

Let's see if a typical Misinformation Voter can figure out something for himself. I'm betting you can't!

What fucking edit are you talking about?
[ame=http://youtu.be/VxegPMvxgEA]President Obama Super Committee Statement (November 21, 2011) - YouTube[/ame]

As I predicted, the Misinformation Voter cannot figure anything out for themself even when handed to them on a silver platter.

Since it was too difficult for you to follow the words on the video, here is a transcript of what came immediately after the GOP's dishonestly edited snippet you swallowed whole.

We need to keep the pressure up to compromise -- not turn off the pressure. The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That’s exactly what they need to do. That’s the job they promised to do. And they've still got a year to figure it out.

Although Congress has not come to an agreement yet, nothing prevents them from coming up with an agreement in the days ahead. They can still come together around a balanced plan. I believe Democrats are prepared to do so. My expectation is, is that there will be some Republicans who are still interested in preventing the automatic cuts from taking place. And, as I have from the beginning, I stand ready and willing to work with anybody that’s ready to engage in that effort to create a balanced plan for deficit reduction.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

February 22, 2013
(Before It's News)

© Miri WTPOTUS February 22, 2013


This week, we were “treated” to the ridiculous spectacle of a grandstanding president of the United States giving a campaign-like speech against his own ideas and policies. Barack Hussein Obama II referred to the upcoming “sequestration“, which was his idea, as like taking a “meat cleaver” to the economy.

The sky is falling! People will DIE! Millions will lose their jobs! Meat won’t be inspected! Children will have nobody to watch over and care for them! National security will be at risk! The border will be overrun! (As if it’s not overrun now, by design of the Obama administration.) Airplanes won’t fly! Unemployment will necessarily skyrocket! Mind you, $44 billion is what our government spends about every 9 days.

The sequestration is a “manufactured crisis,” Obama said. Indeed it is: A crisis manufactured by the White House. Don’t believe it? Ask Obama’s own spokesperson, Jay Carney. [emphasis added to quotes]

The sequester was one of the ideas put forward, yes, by the president’s team.

Not enough evidence for you? Ask Democrat Senator Max Baucus:

The president is part of the sequester. The White House recommended it, frankly, back in August, 2011.

Another senator, Republican Rand Paul, agrees:

I mean, for goodness sakes, it was his [Obama's] proposal. He proposed the sequester. It was his idea. He signed it into law, and now he’s going to tell us that, oh, it’s all our fault?

I voted against the sequester because I didn’t think it was enough. The sequester cuts the rate of growth of the spending, but the sequester doesn’t even really begin to cut spending, which we have to do or we are going to get a credit downgrade, another credit downgrade.

Speaker of the House (Republican) John Boehner agrees with Senator Paul:

Boehner said Thursday that the only reason the sequester exists is because Obama insisted it be included in a debt ceiling and budget deal the two negotiated in 2011 and if Obama thinks it is such bad policy, he should present a plan to fix it.

“This sequester was the president’s idea. His party needs to follow through on their plans to replace it,” Boehner said. “I’ve made it very clear. The sequester – I don’t like it. Nobody should like it, but the sequester is there, because the president insisted it be there. Where’s the president’s plan to replace the sequester that he insisted upon?”

Obama took pains to mention in his speech that sequestration was a bill passed by Congress. Indeed it was! But he “forgot” to mention that it was HIS IDEA and that HE SIGNED THE BILL. If it was so stupid, then why did he sign the bill? Why the about face? Why the flip flop?

He was for sequestration before he was against it.

Not only was the idea his idea, not only did he sign the bill to put sequestration into effect, but he also threatened to veto any attempt to stop the automatic cuts in the rate of growth!


[T]he president said his answer to those who want to eliminate those cuts “is simple: No.

I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off-ramps on this one.”

The fear mongering has become so bad and so ridiculous that Rush Limbaugh opined that for the first time in his lifetime, he’s ashamed of his country:


Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country. To be watching all of this, to be treated like this, to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it’s being insulted? It just makes me ashamed. Seriously, man. Here we get worked up over $44 billion. That’s the total amount of money that will not be spent that was scheduled to be spent this year. In truth, we’re gonna spend more this year than we spent last year.

They really do think we’re stupid. It remains to be seen if we are. Will the people of this country be smart enough to know when they’re being openly LIED TO? If we are to believe at least one poll, nearly half of Americans fell for it and blame Congressional Republicans alone for the sequester:

Notice how the story uses the scarier figure: $1.2 trillion over ten years instead of this year’s quota, which is $44 billion. They’re not cutting $1.2 trillion on March 1!


Of course, this all means something only if you believe such polls, which are produced by the statist media and/or leftist so-called nonpartisan think tanks, who work in lockstep with Obama to promote his tax-and-profligately-spend policies.

If these various liars can convince the Republicans that they will be blamed for these so-called cuts (to the rate of growth), then perhaps the Republicans will cave and let Obama raise taxes, lest they be “shellacked” in 2014. Or so the leftist statists hope.

Everybody with half a brain knows how polls can be skewed to find whatever the pollsters want them to find, simply by the way they word the questions and limit the options for a response. Typically, of course, they over-sample Democrats for good measure.

The inimitable Charles Krauthammer weighed in, upon being asked why they don’t solve this situation by passing a bill “tomorrow”:

That is precisely why this is the most ridiculously hyped Armageddon since the Mayan calendar. In fact it’s made – it looks worse than the Mayan disaster.

This, as you say, can be solved in a day in an hour by allowing a transfer of funds. It’s incredibly soluble, easily soluble. And the president is the one who ought to propose it. He won’t, of course, because he is looking for a fight and not a solution.

But secondly, look at this in perspective. In terms of the gross domestic product of our economy this is .03 of — it’s a third of one percent on the domestic side, well overall it’s 2.5 cents on the dollar. And overall on the non-defense side it is a penny-and-a-half on the dollar of reductions.

Here we are with a debt of $16 trillion and the argument today is that if we cut a penny-and-a-half on non-defense spending in one year it’s going to be the end of the world. If so, then we are hopelessly in debt and we’re going to end up like Greece –


[Excerpt]

Read more:
Don?t Listen to the Liars: Obama?s Sequestration Lies (Open Thread) | Obama Birthplace Controversy

 

[bigrebnc1775]

The same dishonestly edited video, parroted by the same dishonest Misinformation Voter. So tell me what did Obama say immediately after your snippet ends that had to be dishonestly edited out?

Let's see if a typical Misinformation Voter can figure out something for himself. I'm betting you can't!

What fucking edit are you talking about?
[ame=http://youtu.be/VxegPMvxgEA]President Obama Super Committee Statement (November 21, 2011) - YouTube[/ame]

As I predicted, the Misinformation Voter cannot figure anything out for themself even when handed to them on a silver platter.

Since it was too difficult for you to follow the words on the video, here is a transcript of what came immediately after the GOP's dishonestly edited snippet you swallowed whole.

We need to keep the pressure up to compromise -- not turn off the pressure. The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That’s exactly what they need to do. That’s the job they promised to do. And they've still got a year to figure it out.

Although Congress has not come to an agreement yet, nothing prevents them from coming up with an agreement in the days ahead. They can still come together around a balanced plan. I believe Democrats are prepared to do so. My expectation is, is that there will be some Republicans who are still interested in preventing the automatic cuts from taking place. And, as I have from the beginning, I stand ready and willing to work with anybody that’s ready to engage in that effort to create a balanced plan for deficit reduction.

Stop talking to yourself. You aren't making any sense.

 

[Trajan]

Sequestration: Blame goes to GOP

"Obama has said he wants Congress to end tax loopholes enjoyed mainly by the wealthy to buy lawmakers enough time to pass a budget but Republicans are insisting on deeper spending cuts to reduce the $16 trillion national debt."

What is wrong with closing loopholes for the wealthy? Fair or not, it only makes it look like (or for some people it validates the argument), the GOP is shilling for the wealthy elites.

If the GOP wants cuts to programs let them name the cuts? Obama wanted taxes raise and he named the taxes he wanted raised. Why won't the GOP just be honest and open with the American people, and name the cuts they would hold America hostage for?

The latest game makes it look like they really want to force sequestration, while denying it is what they want to do. This way they get cuts without naming which ones they wanted. They are hedging bets -- betting against the American people, and betting that both parties and the President will share blame with the GOP.

This isn't governing, it's electioneering.

Dante

dD

Sequestration: Blame goes to Obama admin. for thinking it up and now whining about its impact




“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.

Nabors has told others that they checked with the president before going to see Reid. A mandatory sequester was the only action-forcing mechanism they could devise. Nabors has said, “We didn’t actually think it would be that hard to convince them” — Reid and the Republicans — to adopt the sequester. “It really was the only thing we had. There was not a lot of other options left on the table.”

Bob Woodward: Obama?s sequester deal-changer - The Washington Post




any questions?

Notice how all these mindless drones parrot the same misinformation. Woodward has been completely discredited by none other than Boner himself.

Please explain if the White House thought it up on July 27th how did Boner post it on his website on July 25th??????

Two-Step Approach to Hold President Obama Accountable | Speaker.gov

CAPS TO CONTROL FUTURE SPENDING

The framework imposes spending caps that would establish clear limits on future spending and serve as a barrier against government expansion while the economy grows. Failure to remain below these caps will trigger automatic across-the-board cuts (otherwise known as sequestration). This is the same mechanism used in the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement.
John Boehner, July 25, 2011

where in does is say they would raise taxes, providing the revenue obama demanded before any deal for cuts was implemented? This is in relation to raising the debt ceiling, hello, and if you're hung up on the term sequestration, hey, thats what it is, a hang up. Its the old “Cut, Cap, & Balance"...so?

I don't see any caps on future spending in the sequestration, are they there in the sequestration plan? Wheres the 'balance'?

right

Failure to remain below these caps will trigger automatic across-the-board cuts (otherwise known as sequestration). This is the same mechanism used in the 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement.



you're putting the cart before the horse. aside from that, why on earth are you against this? Or are you just caught up in who's idea it was , the gop is not whining now, they say let it roll, so? you have made the same comments re: bloated defense here many times, so?

you got the tax revenue, now? time for some cuts? right?


and if this was such a horrible idea and a gop mechanism why was obama so dead set against rolling messing with it? Are you saying he was defending a GOP idea?

 

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The same dishonestly edited video, parroted by the same dishonest Misinformation Voter. So tell me what did Obama say immediately after your snippet ends that had to be dishonestly edited out?

Let's see if a typical Misinformation Voter can figure out something for himself. I'm betting you can't!

What fucking edit are you talking about?
[ame=http://youtu.be/VxegPMvxgEA]President Obama Super Committee Statement (November 21, 2011) - YouTube[/ame]

As I predicted, the Misinformation Voter cannot figure anything out for themself even when handed to them on a silver platter.

Since it was too difficult for you to follow the words on the video, here is a transcript of what came immediately after the GOP's dishonestly edited snippet you swallowed whole.

We need to keep the pressure up to compromise -- not turn off the pressure. The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That’s exactly what they need to do. That’s the job they promised to do. And they've still got a year to figure it out.

Although Congress has not come to an agreement yet, nothing prevents them from coming up with an agreement in the days ahead. They can still come together around a balanced plan. I believe Democrats are prepared to do so. My expectation is, is that there will be some Republicans who are still interested in preventing the automatic cuts from taking place. And, as I have from the beginning, I stand ready and willing to work with anybody that’s ready to engage in that effort to create a balanced plan for deficit reduction.

It's a fucking conspiracy I've posted two video and now the complete text with link unlike what you did without a link
Everybody is lying but obama?

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE SUPERCOMMITTEE

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

5:44 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. As you all know, last summer I signed a law that will cut nearly $1 trillion of spending over the next 10 years. Part of that law also required Congress to reduce the deficit by an additional $1.2 trillion by the end of this year.

In September, I sent them a detailed plan that would have gone above and beyond that goal. It's a plan that would reduce the deficit by an additional $3 trillion, by cutting spending, slowing the growth of Medicare and Medicaid, and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share.

In addition to my plan, there were a number of other bipartisan plans for them to consider from both Democrats and Republicans, all of which promoted a balanced approach. This kind of balanced approach to reducing our deficit -- an approach where everybody gives a little bit, and everyone does their fair share -- is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans -- Democrats, independents, and Republicans. It’s supported by experts and economists from all across the political spectrum. And to their credit, many Democrats in Congress were willing to put politics aside and commit to reasonable adjustments that would have reduced the cost of Medicare, as long as they were part of a balanced approach.

But despite the broad agreement that exists for such an approach, there's still too many Republicans in Congress who have refused to listen to the voices of reason and compromise that are coming from outside of Washington. They continue to insist on protecting $100 billion worth of tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans at any cost, even if it means reducing the deficit with deep cuts to things like education and medical research. Even if it means deep cuts in Medicare.

So at this point, at least, they simply will not budge from that negotiating position. And so far, that refusal continues to be the main stumbling block that has prevented Congress from reaching an agreement to further reduce our deficit.

Now, we are not in the same situation that we were -- that we were in in August. There is no imminent threat to us defaulting on the debt that we owe. There are already $1 trillion worth of spending cuts that are locked in. And part of the law that I signed this summer stated that if Congress could not reach an agreement on the deficit, there would be another $1.2 trillion of automatic cuts in 2013 -– divided equally between domestic spending and defense spending.

One way or another, we will be trimming the deficit by a total of at least $2.2 trillion over the next 10 years. That's going to happen, one way or another. We've got $1 trillion locked in, and either Congress comes up with $1.2 trillion, which so far they've failed to do, or the sequester kicks in and these automatic spending cuts will occur that bring in an additional $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction.

Now, the question right now is whether we can reduce the deficit in a way that helps the economy grow, that operates with a scalpel, not with a hatchet, and if not, whether Congress is willing to stick to the painful deal that we made in August for the automatic cuts. Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts.

My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

We need to keep the pressure up to compromise -- not turn off the pressure. The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That’s exactly what they need to do. That’s the job they promised to do. And they've still got a year to figure it out.

Although Congress has not come to an agreement yet, nothing prevents them from coming up with an agreement in the days ahead. They can still come together around a balanced plan. I believe Democrats are prepared to do so. My expectation is, is that there will be some Republicans who are still interested in preventing the automatic cuts from taking place. And, as I have from the beginning, I stand ready and willing to work with anybody that’s ready to engage in that effort to create a balanced plan for deficit reduction.

Now, in the meantime, we've got a lot of work left to do this year. Before Congress leaves next month, we have to work together to cut taxes for workers and small business owners all across America. If we don’t act, taxes will go up for every single American, starting next year. And I’m not about to let that happen. Middle-class Americans can’t afford to lose $1,000 next year because Congress won’t act. And I can only hope that members of Congress who've been fighting so hard to protect tax breaks for the wealthy will fight just as hard to protect tax breaks for small business owners and middle-class families.

We still need to put construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads and our bridges. We still need to put our teachers back in the classroom educating our kids.

So when everybody gets back from Thanksgiving, it’s time to get some work done for the American people. All around the country, Americans are working hard to live within their means and meet their responsibilities. And I know they expect Washington to do the same.

Thanks.

END 5:50 P.M. EST

Obama Supercommittee Speech Transcript: No Easy Off Ramps to Cutting Deficit

 

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The same dishonestly edited video, parroted by the same dishonest Misinformation Voter. So tell me what did Obama say immediately after your snippet ends that had to be dishonestly edited out?

Let's see if a typical Misinformation Voter can figure out something for himself. I'm betting you can't!

What fucking edit are you talking about?
[ame=http://youtu.be/VxegPMvxgEA]President Obama Super Committee Statement (November 21, 2011) - YouTube[/ame]

As I predicted, the Misinformation Voter cannot figure anything out for themself even when handed to them on a silver platter.

Since it was too difficult for you to follow the words on the video, here is a transcript of what came immediately after the GOP's dishonestly edited snippet you swallowed whole.

We need to keep the pressure up to compromise -- not turn off the pressure. The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That’s exactly what they need to do. That’s the job they promised to do. And they've still got a year to figure it out.

Although Congress has not come to an agreement yet, nothing prevents them from coming up with an agreement in the days ahead. They can still come together around a balanced plan. I believe Democrats are prepared to do so. My expectation is, is that there will be some Republicans who are still interested in preventing the automatic cuts from taking place. And, as I have from the beginning, I stand ready and willing to work with anybody that’s ready to engage in that effort to create a balanced plan for deficit reduction.

oh for gods sakes. boy, do you buy his bullshit or what.....

he got the taxes, wheres the balance ed? show me please

that added blurb means exactly nothing and you offering it is poor mitigation, and in no way mitigates what he said before that in the same speech, its smoke, wheres the PLAN, he got what he wanted, tax revenue, the balance is up to HIM...

he missed his budget submittal deadline ed, again btw, feb. 1, he had the state of the union to advertise ro address his plan for cuts which would balance the rise in taxs that passed, we are still waiting.