The only thing that concerns me is that this “ends justifies the means” administration will purposely crash the economy with the sole purpose of blaming the GOP.
Well, inasmuch as their attempts to “stimulate” the economy have essentially destroyed it, they can hardly do worse if they actually try ...
There is a problem with that line of “reasoning” which is it assumes government spending is the primary driver of the economy. It isn’t. The way government hurts the economy is primarily is by growing. It may not hurt the Washington DC environment but it sucks money away from other non governmental sectors and drives money unnaturally towards DC in an almost closed loop. This sequester will result in a stronger economy. Sure there will be some pain for those who are benefiting the most off the endless growth of government but it will be no more or less than anyone in the private sector goes through when a business isn’t profitable and thus isn’t viable or needed. The GOP needs to stop worrying about getting blamed and start standing up and leading like they did today. They did the right thing and it should be easy to point that out to the American people. The question I’d ask reporters who try to play the blame game is “Do you really believe the federal Government cant absorb this miniscule cut?”.