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Gore Bane said, 3 months ago
Sequestration is not the ideal solution or even a good solution, but without it there will be no solution. Let it begin.
Radish
said, 3 months ago
The republicans cause all these problems and then they deny that they had any part in it.
Zipi said, 3 months ago
@Radish
It was OBAMA’s plan. He demanded it and when the Republicans agreed the left was stuck with a lemon. The only savior for the Gimmies is that the MSM is so in the tank for Obama he can get away with demanding these cuts and then blame the Republicans. Sorry girls but the American public got real tired of hearing about the dooms day Sequestration and yesterday Odrama started backing off, trying to save some face – didn’t work!
David
said, 3 months ago
The Republican party has been continually reinforcing its core belief that government can never be effective. It is a main element of their strategy to reinforce that belief and create crisis after crisis to reinforce that point. It’s just that, finally, more people than not are recognizing this. Trying to redirect away from the source and blaming the President is hypocrisy at its worst. How is his and his partys revealing of the real scourge behind the screen a bad thing?
Richard Flaskamp
said, 3 months ago
I still don’t understand how you breath in that fantasy bubble in which you reside.
The Wolf In Your Midst said, 3 months ago
@Zipi
“when the Republicans agreed”
Oh, so of course they’re entirely blameless here. But didn’t Boehner say he got 98% of what he wanted? So did he want this, or was it just not worth his while to fight it?
Harrison_Bergeron said, 3 months ago
@David
If you think “government can never be effective” is a core belief of the GOP, then you know absolutely nothing about the GOP. Which is to be expected from anyone who gets all their… “news” from the Democratic propagandists in the MSM.
The truth is, this is NOT a crisis. It is a very small decrease in projected spending increases. The further truth is that Obama created this phony-baloney “crisis”, and is now using it to hold America hostage so he can increase taxes and steal more money from people. There is no reason they can’t cut wasteful spending, but instead he is using this to cut spending in ways intended to make people suffer as much as possible so they will pressure Congress into giving him whatever he wants.
Of course, that’s all talking about ACTUAL reality, not the delusional, bigoted fantasies that Obamatons cling to.
Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago
Obama’s plan?
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022813-646267-obama-labels-new-revenues-as-spending-cuts.htm
Stipple said, 3 months ago
@Zipi
The fewer the numbers of whacks left the more strident they get. And more out of touch.
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The American majority is going away from the republican extremist views.
Screaming louder that they are swarming to your side really makes for a foolish statement.
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I do not give my all to either side, but pay attention to actual facts.
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The extremists are on the decline, good bad or indifferent, their numbers are going down.
wmconelly said, 3 months ago
“Facts: The Obama administration has cut 1.25 trillion dollars from the Federal budget over the last four years – more than Ronald Reagan, more than either George Bush, more, in fact than any administration ever. Even on a percentage basis it is more than any modern President.
It has also slowed the growth of overall spending to a level not seen since the Eisenhower administration six decades ago (and Ike did it in the midst of the biggest boom in world history – Obama is operating during the second worst downturn we’ve faced!)
The government payroll in absolute terms has also fallen to levels as small as the 1950s even though the US population is almost three times the size.
Those are facts. What is hyperbole – or actually just falsehood – is to say that sequestration “is the only way we will see any budget cuts from this Administration.”
With a tip of the hat to Cormac of New York.
David
said, 3 months ago
@Harrison_Bergeron
Oh my god! Another briliant satirist on gocomics, how can you people keep coming up with with such deviant fantasy worlds?!? You’re the second one I’ve spotted today, although you seem less Orwellian and more of a deluded Faust than ansonia.
echoraven said, 3 months ago
Another winner!
Radish
said, 3 months ago
Republicans are rewriting history when they try to falsely pin fault on President Obama for the sequestration. After all, 174 House Republicans voted for the measure that Politico said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was “the chief Republican architect of.” Today’s New York Times editorial has some choice words for this blame game, calling out Republicans for their attempts to bend the truth and rightfully showing the GOP is responsible for the upcoming sequestration.
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“Blaming the president for their own mistake is not a solution.”
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http://www.democraticwhip.gov/content/ny-times-editorial-republicans-hiding-truth-sequestration
Harrison_Bergeron said, 3 months ago
@David
The “fantasy world” is the one in which the GOP is anti-government, and the sequester wasn’t Obama’s proposed policy in the first place. As to “deviant”, that would apply to anyone who thinks that unlimited totalitarian government is a GOOD idea, anyone who thinks they are entitled to use violence to control their fellow human beings.
David
said, 3 months ago
@Harrison_Bergeron
You’re just repeating yourself now. Def’n of Deviant : (adj) deviating from the norm. In this application perhaps delusional would have been a better word. It is delusional to believe that liberals, progressive, and President Obama wants to use violence in promotion of a totalitarian regime. That’s really just complete paranoid schizophric behaviour caused by ignorance and the vile lies told by a small segment of broadcasters. Go back 10 years and listen to Bush supporters talk about killing anyone, including Americans, who got the way of his war. Wake up before it’s too late, look in the mirror and read what you actually say and promote, and compare that to what the other side says. Read what Regan said and think about his "here to help’ joke.