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   Dycel said, 3 months ago

   Never should have been put in the position to even need a sequester!
   This is a fair visulization of the sequester/cliff budgets breakdown.
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   http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/fiscal_cliff/fiscal_cliff.html
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   Simon_Jester said, 3 months ago

   Hel-LOOOOOO? The Tea-Party Repubs nearly caused the US to default on its debts, and you STILL thought they cound’t be that stupid and irresponsible?
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   MortyForTyrant said, 3 months ago

   @Simon_Jester

   Uhm… IIRC that was the crisis averted by introducing the Sequester! It’s like “you can pay me now or you can pay me later”. Paul Krugmann is nuts by saying the government should keep spending on the current level for 10 more years, but on the other hand the deficit reduction has to be gentle, targeted and predictable in order to work. This thing here will blow up in everybody’s faces sooner or later…
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   David said, 3 months ago

   This is an awesome cartoon. I just wish the President would apologize explicitly for underestimating the weak and craven nature of the republicans who caved to the teaparty.
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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   All part of O’s plan that has backfired.
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   onceisenough said, 3 months ago

   How does that cake taste Mr. President?
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   wmconelly said, 3 months ago

   WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States’s ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.
   The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation’s ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.
   “Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective,” said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. “Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy.”
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   dapperdan61 said, 3 months ago

   As Pogo would say we’ve met the enemy & he is us. In order to reduce debt with no new taxes we must 1st kill the recovery.
   The teapublicans have cornered the President & we can’t rectify this mess until the midterm elections next year.
   Obamas biggest mistake was trusting the Republicans to come to their senses & do the right thing. Big mistake.
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   dtroutma said, 3 months ago

   The simple fact is, and has been, John Boehnhead and crew are out to destroy the nation if necessary to preserve the party, and profit for their corporate handlers. While the methodology for the sequester goes back to 1985 (Gramm Rudmann Holings) and was used by REAGAN, with many job cuts and RIFs intentionally driven to cripple regulatory agencies especially, contractors increased their stranglehold on budgets. Maybe it is time for Boeing, GE, and other corporate giants, and their “key investors”, to actually pay some actual taxes??
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    Zuhlamon said, 3 months ago

    It’s right up there with Reid securing a “gentleman’s agreement” with the Senate Republicans on filibusters. How naive can the Democrats be, to fall for that “Peace In Our Time” stuff over and over and over again before they catch on that the Republican idea of negotiation is “Our way or the country gets it”?
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    thebaldtexican said, 3 months ago

    Obama negotiated for half the cuts going to defense… thinking no Republican would allow those cuts… R’s called his bluff, and didn’t blink.
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    Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago

    @wmconelly

    I’m glad you reminded me, I caught up reading Borowitz reports that I missed.
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    David said, 3 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    Please explain your position of the connection between the sequester (basically a continuing resolution to sustain government operations during an impasse) and a failure to lead. Would you rahter the President have bypassed the stalemate by proclamation? remember, he’s still up against GOP members of congress who continue to abuse the 60 vote fillibuster rule and have a majority in the house.

    My feeling is the evidence that he led the nation is obtained by observing a re-election victory and an increase in the number of Democratic congressmen (8 more in house, 2 in senate).
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    Radish said, 3 months ago

    Both parties are in collusion to impose austerity.
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    NeoconMan said, 3 months ago

    Obama is going to destroy the economy and my Republican Party mustl stop him, even if we have to destroy the economy to do so.
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