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Flashback: "Obama pledges to veto effort to undo automatic spending cuts"
CBSnews ^ | 11/21/2011 | Kevin Hechtkopf

Posted on 02/08/2013 12:30:34 PM PST by Rusty0604

"Already some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No," Mr. Obama said from the White House briefing room Monday evening. "I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending." November 21, 2011

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: budget; economy; kingofthedeficit; plausibledeniability
"The President will urge Congress to come together and act to ensure these devastating cuts to defense and job-creating programs don’t take effect." - White House statement, February 5, 2013
1 posted on 02/08/2013 12:30:45 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

The news media now knows that the idea for “sequestration” came from the White House. Bob Woodward states that in his current book. Obama is now afraid he could be blamed for the disruption to the economy the cuts could cause.


2 posted on 02/08/2013 12:48:26 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Even the liberal elite is starting to realize that Obama is force feeding America the goose that lays the golden eggs.

This “take the country in the direction of Greece” stuff is not going to last. It’s fu ideologically, but eventually it is your money they come after than you realize you are a capitalist after all.


3 posted on 02/08/2013 12:58:42 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (I own a weapon to protect my family from those wanting to take that weapon away.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Obama is force feeding America the goose that lays the golden eggs.

That's the most succinct summary of O's Presidency I've ever heard. Thanks!


4 posted on 02/08/2013 1:05:57 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Rusty0604

Is a veto a bad thing? Any effort the GOP cooperates on will result in the cuts never occurring.


5 posted on 02/08/2013 1:22:08 PM PST by Ingtar (Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The news media now knows that the idea for “sequestration” came from the White House

It's the lead story on the NEWS.
The republicans have been all over this.

Then I woke up.

6 posted on 02/08/2013 1:35:54 PM PST by Vinnie (A)
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To: Ingtar

He promised the veto in 2011. Now he wants to do the very thing he promised to veto.


7 posted on 02/08/2013 2:37:53 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Vinnie
From Oct. 26, 2012 WashPost:

Obama’s fanciful claim that
Congress ‘proposed’ the sequester

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-fanciful-claim-that-congress-proposed-the-sequester/2012/10/25/8651dc6a-1eed-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_blog.html

8 posted on 02/08/2013 3:03:28 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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