[muawiyah]

Look, Nixon proposed Sequestration as a strategy to hold down government spending. At the time the idea was that the Congress was author of all the excessive spending ~ not the President ~ so the President would be given the "line item veto" in the guise of Sequestration ~ just like many state governors.

All that McConnell proposed is a method the Democrats spent a lot of political capital OPPOSING.

He's chortling over this one.

[slowhandluke]

All that McConnell proposed is a method the Democrats spent a lot of political capital OPPOSING.

Yes, they opposed it when a Republican president tried to use it without legal basis. But they'll be all for it if a Democrat president gets it legally.

That legal vs illegal difference is more than enough for the MSM to make it sound like Republican hypocrisy when they eventually have to fight against their own proposal.

McConnell is throwing the rabbit into the briar patch.

[ConservativeDude]

McConnell is wily for sure...but in this instance, he needs to be careful that he isn’t too wily by half.

[ConservativeDude]

This precise issue (where a non-member of Congress makes cuts) was litigated with regards with Graham-Rudman-Hollings, also. That portion of that legislation was deemed unconstitutional.