The Democrats have lost on sequestration

Washington Post ^ | Friday, April 26, 2013 | Ezra Klein

[SunkenCiv]

That’s the simple reality of Friday’s vote to ease the pain for the Federal Aviation Administration. By assenting to it, Democrats have agreed to sequestration for the foreseeable future.

In effect, what Democrats said Friday was that in any case where the political pain caused by sequestration becomes unbearable, they will agree to cancel that particular piece of the bill while leaving the rest of the law untouched. The result is that sequestration is no longer particularly politically threatening, but it’s even more unbalanced: Cuts to programs used by the politically powerful will be addressed, but cuts to programs that affects the politically powerless will persist. It’s worth saying this clearly: The pain of sequestration will be concentrated on those who lack political power.

Democrats had other choices, of course. As Politico’s Glenn Thrush pointed out on MSNBC Friday, President Obama could’ve vetoed the FAA bill while standing at a Head Start that’s about to throw needy children out of the program. He could’ve vetoed it from the home of an jobless worker who just saw her benefits cut.

[gorush]

"He could’ve vetoed it from the home of an jobless worker who just saw her benefits cut."

How can one who is jobless be called a worker?

[SunkenCiv]

[Zero] could’ve vetoed the FAA bill while standing at a Head Start that’s about to throw needy children out of the program. He could’ve vetoed it from the home of an jobless worker who just saw her benefits cut.

Yeah, that makes sense -- Zero ordered the very cuts which made his stupid ass look stupid, and defying Zero would have caused the Demagogic Party's fingernail-thin grasp on power to vanish overnight. The cancellation of SOME of OBAMA'S ex cathedra cuts to PUBLIC SAFETY was their Hobson's Choice. They lose small (for now) instead of losing big.

[cardinal4]

We are doomed..

[SunkenCiv]

here's a file from the drive, from February:

The Obama Tax Hike

to go with

The Obama Recession

• In 2011 Obama threatened to veto any attempt to adopt short-term fixes that would stop his sequester
• House GOP Seeing Sequester, Not Debt Ceiling, As Fight to Pick
• Obama wanted the sequester- give it to him. Straight down his throat.
• Bob Woodward: Obama 'mistaken' on sequester
• Bob Woodward: Why is Obama still misleading everyone on the sequester?
• President Obama Lies About The Sequester - Places Blame On GOP
• White House: GOP responsible for shrinking economy
• Obama: Sequester (his idea) would deal 'huge blow to middle-class families'
• Obama Privately Touts Sequester After Denying Responsibility in Debate
• The Two Faces Of Obama's View On The Sequester
• [Partisan Media Shill] Blame Game Rages on Over Looming Sequester
• [RINO] GOP Rep. Amash: Effort to blame Obama for sequester cuts 'disingenuous'
• Rush Limbaugh: I'm Not Your Problem, GOP
• ObamaCare: The Neutron Bomb That Will Decimate Employment
• NJ is directed to suspend enrollment in insurance program for people with preexisting conditions
• National park cuts could hit state hard
• The Impact of the Sequester on Communities Across America (Bring a crying towel & a bucket)
• Obama: If Republicans don't give me what I want I will make planes fall from the sky
• And then Education enters the Twilight Zone
• Senate's Sequester Bills Look Toward Compromise
• WEEKLY ADDRESS: Congress Must Act Now to Stop the Sequester (Barf Alert)
• Someone Tell President Obama: American Bridges Aren't "Crumbling"
• Sequester is not a cut.
• Government By Freakout: Threat Manufacturing Complex
• Obama's sequester deal-changer (i.e. lies)
• Morning Bell: Obama and the Seuss-quester
• The Game Obama Is Really Playing With The Debt And Sequestration
• LaHood: Forced cuts mean flight delays, some control tower closures
• Has Obama overdone Nightmare on Sequester Street?
• 57 Terrible Consequences Of The Sequester
• An Easy Visual Explanation Of How Democrats Are Exaggerating The Depth Of The Sequester
• HHS: Head Start Students Fare Worse in Math, Behavior by Third Grade than Non-Head Start Students
• New GOP sequester plan: Let Obama decide what to cut
• Sen. Schumer: Dems hold 'high ground' in (Hussein's) sequester debate
• Republicans Must Honor the Sequester Deal
• Senate Dems unveil $110 billion sequester-replacement package
• Jay Carney Admits Sequester was the President's idea
• Boehner: Obama doesn't have 'the guts' to tackle deficit
• Obama Vastly Exaggerates The Impact of Sequester Cuts
• The Unscary Sequester
• The Idiocy of Sequestration
• The Debt Ceiling has TEETH (What would happen if Obama violates it)
• GOLDMAN: Hide Your Kids, The Sequester Is Coming
• House to vote on requiring Obama to find alternative to sequester cuts
• Silent Running: Russian attack submarine sailed in Gulf of Mexico undetected for weeks...
• Study projects automatic cuts could cost US 1 million jobs

[Carry_Okie]

Cuts to programs used by the politically powerful will be addressed, but cuts to programs that affects the politically powerless will persist.

I guess that means that the people on food-stamps are politically powerful.

[montag813]

President Obama could’ve vetoed the FAA bill while standing at a Head Start that’s about to throw needy children out of the program. He could’ve vetoed it from the home of an jobless worker who just saw her benefits cut.

Why? He already won re-election. Now Obama is just about coasting the rest of the way, working via executive orders to get what he wants.

[bray]

They can still blame Bush?

Pray for America to Wake Up

[Colonel_Flagg]

Democrats had other choices, of course.

Of course they did. They could have told their President to get lost when he thought up the idea of sequestration in the first place.

[Ken522]

How can one who is jobless be called a worker?

It's a Democrat Party thing - you wouldn't understand ...

[SunkenCiv]

U.S. Senate approves bill to end air traffic controller furloughs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3012490/posts

Senate votes to end furloughs of air traffic controllers
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3012546/posts

Senate passes bill to end FAA furloughs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3012605/posts

White House in Full Retreat as FAA Sequester Stunt Backfires
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3012748/posts

Breaking: House passes bill to end FAA furloughs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3012758/posts

Obama chides lawmakers over flight delay fix, budget conflict
[Clown Submitted Budget 2 Months Late]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3013023/posts

Air Traffic Slowdown is Manufactured Crisis (You Didn’t Know that?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3013140/posts

A Typo Keeps FAA Air Traffic Furloughs From Ending,
President Obama Waits For Correction to Sign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3013179/posts

[griswold3]

Only a ‘Progressive’ would call a decrease in the RATE of increase a ‘cut’ in spending.
We’re so screwed.

[Jim Noble]

How can one who is jobless be called a worker?

You obviously are ignorant of basic Marxism.

Spend a few bucks and get up to speed.

Point one: "Worker" in commiespeak does not refer to one who works.

[SunkenCiv]

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[central_va]

The pain of sequestration will be concentrated on those who lack political power.

i.e. the taxpayer, the most politically powerless entity in the country. The forgotten man.

[KC_Conspirator]

What a loser of an article.

Democrats had other choices, of course. As Politico’s Glenn Thrush pointed out on MSNBC Friday, President Obama could’ve vetoed the FAA bill while standing at a Head Start that’s about to throw needy children out of the program. He could’ve vetoed it from the home of an jobless worker who just saw her benefits cut.

So basically, they are saying that he could have been a more vicious harmful demogague and politically won? Shame on them. The problem is the economy and the mismanagement by the Obama White House.

[Baynative]

Most of the voters and ALL of the media have no idea that the sequestration was a not a cut in the budget, but rather a reduction of the projected budget increase.

It's the republicans who lose on that count. They seem unwilling to stand up and tell the truth.

[VRW Conspirator]

The Democrats have lost on sequestration

Note to RNC: Stand your ground

[Principled]

He could’ve vetoed it from the home of an jobless worker who just saw her benefits cut.

So much to say, so little time....

an jobless?

jobless worker?

...

[PeterPrinciple]

In effect, what Democrats said Friday was that in any case where the political pain caused by sequestration becomes unbearable, they will agree to cancel that particular piece of the bill while leaving the rest of the law untouched.

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not new, that was abomacare