SEQUESTER...WHO GETS THE BLAME?
The Budget Control Act of 2011 - which President Obama signed - allowed the U.S. to keep paying its bills, like the U.S is some kind of adult or something. It also carried a ticking time bomb: big built-in federal spending cuts that would take effect by "sequestration" if Congress couldn't come up with a budget agreement on its own.
The blame goes to: Democrats, for thinking Congress could reach an agreement.
Who on earth would come up with this terrifying "sequester" plan in the first place? President Obama has said the House Republicans did it. Republicans have said the White House did it.
The blame goes to: The sequester really was Team Obama's idea, but Republicans agreed to it initially. So blame everyone!
Barack Obama signed a tax bill in January that delayed the sequester until March.
The blame goes to: The can, for not going farther down the road when it was kicked.
Journalist Bob Woodward called President Obama a Lying McLiarpants saying the White House came up with the sequester idea, has "moved the goal posts" in negotiations with Republicans, and is making unnecessary national security decisions in response to the looming budget cuts. And now the WH is threatening him.
The blame goes to: Obama. He should know not to tangle with the reporter who brought down Nixon.
Emboldened by Woodward's attack on Obama, Republicans doubled down, saying that none of this would have ever happened if the president weren't so stubborn (and if his wife didn't have such stupid bangs).
The blame goes to: Michelle Obama. Her desperate need to feel and act like an Empress is costing tax payers way too much money.
