The next post is the effect on the Army – This whole mess sits squarely on President I’m Not Responsible For Anything in the last 1511 days. It is, and will always someone else’s Fault.
Boehner, WSJ Lash Out at Obama over Sequester
Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013 11:53 AM
By Lisa Barron
House Speaker John Boehner, on Wednesday blasted President Barack Obama for the $1.2 trillion looming spending cuts, saying the sequester due to begin next week are “a product of the president’s own failed leadership.”
Unless the president and Congressional l Republicans reach a compromise budget deal, the sequester will slash defense and domestic spending.
At a White House event on Tuesday, Obama, surrounded by firefighters and other first responders, blamed the GOP lawmakers for the impending loss of jobs for emergency workers and others.
But in a scathing Wall Street Journal op-ed, Boehner pointed the finger firmly at the president as being responsible for getting the country “in this mess.”
“During the summer of 2011, as Washington worked toward a plan to reduce the deficit to allow for an increase in the federal debt limit, President Obama and I very nearly came to a historic agreement,” writes Boehner. “Unfortunately, our deal fell apart at the last minute when the president demanded an extra $400 billion in new tax revenue —50% more than we had shaken hands on just days before. “
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February 19, 2013 by Tim Brown
Obama Blasts His Own Idea Of Sequester
Barack Obama, standing in front of seventeen first responders, blasted Republicans on Tuesday for refusing to raise taxes as part of a deal to avoid the “sequester” cuts. However, it was his own administration who not only championed the idea of the sequester, but he is the man that signed it into law.
Given that Obama signed the sequester into law, one would think you would not hear him do an about face on it by stating that first responders’ “ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded. Border patrol agents will see their hours reduced. FBI agents will be furloughed. Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go… These cuts are not smart, they are not fair, they will hurt our economy, they will add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls.”
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