Posted on 02/27/2013 9:59:38 AM PST by chessplayer
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward continues to break ranks with his Obama-loving colleagues by holding the President's feet to the fire concerning the looming budget sequester.
Just days after he wrote a piece in the Post exposing the inconvenient truth that it was indeed the White House that initially proposed sequestration during the 2011 debt ceiling debate, Woodward appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe Wednesday saying that Obama's decision to not send the USS Truman to the Persian Gulf as a result of these deliberations was "a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BOB WOODWARD, WASHINGTON POST: I'm not sure the White House understands exactly what happened in all of these negotiations at the end of 2011 with the sequester and the super committee and God knows what because they were really on the sidelines. But I think it's possible to take one example here where President Obama came out and acknowledged that we are not sending the aircraft carrier Truman to the Persian Gulf because of this budget agreement.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, CO-HOST: Right.
WOODWARD: Joe, I mean, this will resonate with you, I think. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, “Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document,” or George W. Bush saying, “You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need,” or even Bill Clinton saying, “You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters” as he did when Clinton was president “because of some budget document?” Under the Constitution, the president is Commander-in-Chief and employs the force. And so we now have the president going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement, “I can't do what I need to do to protect the country.” That's a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time.
It is madness. He is crazy. Crazy.
He is trying to get conservatives to buy his books, that’s all. He had dirt on the kenyan and did nothing before the election when in might have made a difference. This is all PR stuff now. I don’t buy it.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, “Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document,” or George W. Bush saying, “You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need,” or even Bill Clinton saying, “You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters” as he did when Clinton was president “because of some budget document?” Under the Constitution, the president is Commander-in-Chief and employs the force. And so we now have the president going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement, “I can't do what I need to do to protect the country.” That's a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time.
He's saying that Obama, as commander-in-chief, should just ignore the sequester (a duly-enacted law) and spend the money anyway, and that Obama's failure to do so is "madness."
libs like woodward have to chalk it up as madness. they can’t believe - like us - that this is totally delierate and planned.
it is called late phase 2/phase three of Freedom From War. state dept publication 5277.
it also ties in the domestic drones, dhs fema corps, tsa and ubiquitous scanning of our emails and phone calls. and turning police into paramilitary forces.
[And remember how we thought NO ONE could be worse than Carter or Clinton?]
OK, thats two so far:
Bob Woodward
Bill Plante
We need a third to question the propaganda of the state-run media from it’s own ranks.
Are we witnessing a crack in Obama’s Iron Curtain Media?
Mr. Obama ... tear down this wall!
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