Posted on 02/21/2013 8:48:12 PM PST by neverdem
"The President’s part of the sequester – the White House recommended it, frankly, back in August 2011, so now we’re feeling the effects of it..."
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They should play this on EVERY dang channel at 8 o’clock every night next week. Yep I will even give up whatever I am watching at 8 o’clock to watch it.
Ping!
Omammy can direct the buts anywhere he wants. Senator Dr. Rand Paul annihilated omammy and his whining tonight om Gretta. The cops he stood in front of are not even paid by the feds-— what a joke. Cut foreign aid!!! close worthless military bases in Belgium and japan and quit giving money to illrgal aliens!!!
‘Bret Baier: Fair to say, but it was the president’s idea… You concede that point, right?
Jay Carney: What I will concede is that we were looking and the Republicans were looking for a trigger around which to build the mechanism to get us out of default possibility and the sequester was one of the ideas yes put forward, yes, by the president’s team.’
‘Panetta tried to shift the blame to Congress, saying the problem was that Congress had “left town” for the election: “All of this has now been put off into the lame-duck session.”’
Panetta won’t acknowledge what became crystal-clear from the research of Bob Woodward, that Obama himself was responsible for originating the idea of sequestration to play chicken with the GOP. Woodward wrote that Obama’s top deputies believed the prospect of massive defense cuts would compel Republicans to cave in and agree to a deficit-cutting grand bargain.
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"Panetta won’t acknowledge what became crystal-clear from the research of Bob Woodward, that Obama himself was responsible for originating the idea of sequestration to play chicken with the GOP. Woodward wrote that Obama’s top deputies believed the prospect of massive defense cuts would compel Republicans to cave in and agree to a deficit-cutting grand bargain."
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Baucus is running to the right of the Democrat party. He’s up for re-election in 2014. He’s also been criticizing Obamacare, which he voted for.
Rand Paul just voted to confirm the most incompetent Secretary of Defense in the history of the planet, so don't talk to me about the wonderfulness of Rand Paul.
“Dr Rand Paul”
For an ophthalmologist, he can’t see sh*t.
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