[sickoflibs]

RE :”Boehner has triumphed in at least exposing the White House’s fumbling on spending issues – and he wasted no time in driving the point home. “Yesterday the president warned of grave economic consequences if the sequester were to go into effect, but he didn’t announce any specific plans of how he would address it,” he pointed out after Obama’s demand for a delay. “He didn’t bother to outline how he would replace the sequester, which he suggested and insisted upon in August of 2011. He didn’t even tell us when we might see his budget, which is again late, and how he would address the sequester in his budget.”
In short, the President has no plan, and no leverage. With the tax rates and Alternative Minimum Tax fixes now permanent, Obama has no more leverage to force the House into bending to his will. His one gimmick to force Republicans to cave into his demands for higher taxes and more spending just backfired, and Obama has nothing more to offer. After almost four years of budget cliffs and gimmicks, Barack Obama will have to accept that reality and get serious about budget reform on the other side of the ledger. “

This is going to be better to watch than the tax fight that I was 100% sure Republicans would lose at.

A young black Dem (O supporter and liberal) at work told me that Obama was controlling this whole thing again and that it would end just like the others.

I said “The GOP house will extend the debt limit a few more months and let the spending cuts go into effect”
So he says that the GOP will get blamed for the spending cuts that Obama signed onto, just like the others.

I asked :”Do most voters even care about those cuts?”

He claimed they did but his polling sample is Marylanders w(+Dems) who live on gubment spending. I told him they don't count because this state is BRIGHT BLUE. I questioned if key voters care.

[ArmstedFragg]

The sequester process will set into motion what I like to call the old “parade of horribles” routine. The administration will choose the most politically controversial cuts they can, then try to blame them on the GOP.

I’m reminded of a little kid back in the 50’s. He’d been one of the last polio victims, and lived in an iron lung. Every time there was a proposal to cut back some bureaucrat’s limo costs, it always transmogrified into shutting off poor little Johnny’s iron lung. The little sucker kept discovering a new threat to his life every time the legislature proposed a common sense cost reduction.

So, really, there’ll be an extensive effort to cast the cuts in the most egregious manner possible. Whether even that won’t provoke the majority of the public to give a damn is an open question.