[SkyPilot]

"Noting that the sequester is cutting only discretionary spending and not entitlements, Daniels predicted that unless entitlements were dealt with, "there will be a runaway growth of autopilot spending and it will devour us."

Wow. Someone actually speaking the truth about Sequestration and Entitlements for a change.

That's OK - tomorrow Sen "Weasel" McConnell will tell us all how great he is for "preserving" the gutting of our military while failing to lift a finger about the real causes of our debt and deficit (Entitlements).

[MrChips]

Well, Obamacare is the new, bankrupting entitlement, and Ted Cruz spoke the truth about it. But, I like Daniels. I wish he would run.

[PubliusMM]

Sequestration may not be the best tool, but it has a couple of great things going for it, if the pubbies can keep the noise going.
First, it belongs to Zero and the 0bamunists. Their idea, start to finish.
Second, it cuts spending. We are so screwed right now that ANY spending cut is a good one.

[AdaGray]

Another RINO squish.

[Maelstorm]

I think the Sequester is the best we can expect of congress because it forces things to a breaking point sooner. Some of these guys like Daniels assume that we must try to keep everything all nice and polite and well funded. The Sequester is in a way beautiful in that it has set the government on a course to consume itself. I’m sorry if it causes pain but people don’t get the message any other way it seems. Full steam ahead to the demise of the nanny state and the policing the world state.

[Lancey Howard]

Why on earth would the Democrats EVER agree to cuts in the socialist welfare state, when that is the very heart of the party’s scheme to buy the votes of its parasitic moocher base?

[cynwoody]

Sequestration should remain in place unless the Donks are willing to pass into law meaningful entitlement cuts with no tax increases. Not going to happen: Obama is way too stubborn.

The only realistic way out of the fiscal mess is hold the line on spending growth while goosing economic growth via tax cuts and regulatory pullback.

[cdcdawg]

Mitch Daniels creates a false choice between sequestration (discretionary spending discipline) and entitlement reform. Sequestration was Obama’s idea, it was a scare tactic, his bluff was called, and we are all still here to tell the tale. It was a political downer for Obama, didn’t hurt the country or the Republicans in any real way, and has actually kinda sorta cut some spending. Mitch Daniels is part of the problem, still.

[Amendment10]

Given Mr. Daniels' likely indoctrination in law school, it wouldn't surprise me if he is oblivious to Congress's limited power to lay taxes.

More specifically, given the remote possibility that some freepers aren't aware of this, Justice John Marshall had officially clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So the sequester has actually cut spending for a bunch of federal spending programs that corrupt Congress never had the constitutional authority to establish in the first place.

In fact, one of the very few federal government services that Congress actually has the constitutional authority to establish, which citizens may be tangibly affected by concerning the sequester, is temporary disruption of US mail services. This is evidenced by the Constitution's Clause 7 of Section 8 of Article I.