[haffast]

So what will they do? Hint:

Some in GOP want sequester deal
Politico ^ | 6 Feb 13 | JAKE SHERMAN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2986421/posts

[bigheadfred]

2013 budget $1.8 trillion

2014-—????

my mama had 4 kids the first was 8.5 and the last was 10.5 and the doc said the next one will kill ya.

I have one sister and 2 brothers....

hahaha

[ClearCase_guy]

1) I strongly support Defense: it is essential.
2) There is no question that we could cut $60B in waste from each annual Defense budget over the next 10 years. So much of the spending is just done stupidly.

Bring on the sequester. I wouldn't hesitate for a second.

[GeronL]

Vichy GOPe seems to want to surrender AGAIN

[SkyPilot]

I love Dr. Charles Krauthammer, I really do. He is usually the most reasonable man in the room.

But his entire premise is: "OK, the criminal is holding a gun to our hostage's head....quick, get our snipers to kill the hostage first so the criminal won't get the satisfaction."

If you let the Sequester take place, you gut the military and break faith with our men and women in uniform. It wasn't the Dept of Defense that came up with this jack assery formula whereas 17% of the budget (Defense) takes 50% of the Sequester cuts.

The GOP singed up to that, and during the 2012 campaign told us all the cuts would be "devastating." And they will.

Now it is 2013 and the same GOP is walking around the Sunday shows telling everyone the cuts are really wonderful things, because Obama and Reid treated them bad during the Dec/Jan negotiations, and they want their mommies.

Look, if the cuts were horrible to Defense last year, they are horrible this year. The GOP should stop with it's own spin.

Our military leaders are screaming to anyone who will listen what these cuts will do.

No one is listening.

[blueunicorn6]

They will cut the defense budget and increase spending to buy Democrat votes.

[Shery]

Remember that it was Obama who put out he terms in that budget process that ended in the sequester. It was HE who said that if no agreement was reached that the sequester would go into action. WE ALL know exactly why he wanted this...to put pressure on the GOP to give him what he wanted. Was it even constitutional for him to put such a binder on it? He HAD to know that the democrats were not going to budge. The GOP should have refused to enter ANY kind of budget talks that were so set to fail. Seems as if they could have refused to enter talks with any such terrible end result. I’ve heard so many people say that these are our brightest, or they’d never be elected. PHOOEY! That is absurd! I think many of us are a lot more capable, simply because we can see and understand common sense ideas and don’t feel the need to pander to any lobbyists to get the job done.

[onyx]

Aye

[SoFloFreeper]

The idea had been proposed and promoted by the White House during the July 2011 debt-ceiling negotiations.

This is what I was wanting to scream all day yesterday listening to Rush Limbaugh!

The FACT is that Obama signed this deal into law...HE was the one who wanted this deal....backfire this entire DAMN deal on HIM--because HE promoted it.

So when Barbara Lee goes on to the floor of the House and claims the budget will kill people with HIV, the designated Republican to speak in the debate ought to say, "The bill was signed by Barack HUSSEIN Obama, mmm mmm mmm."

This is Obama's tar baby, so you ought to make it stick to HIM.

[Da Coyote]

We might, but the congress critters won’t.

Congress is slime.

Period.