Obama has no choice except to force the sequester to take place. When the economy disintegrates over the next two years prior to the congressional elections he will blame the economic catastrophe on the fact that we had the sequester. He will blame the Republicans for this even thought it was his policy from the White House that proposed the sequester and was passed by a Democrat Senate and Republican House. The media will repeat his lies also known as talking points.
If the sequester does not happen, the Demonicrats will be wiped out in the next Congressional Elections. This battle is not about the economy but the battle for control of the House and Senate in two years.
The Republicans should propose two budgets. One that is exactly the same as last years. This budget will be rejected by the Senate. The second proposed budget should have the tax increases that Obama says he "really" wants. However, those tax increases would expire in two years. The tax increases will have a very negative effect on the economy and insure that the Demonicrats own the disaster. The House should send the budgets to the Senate every day they are in session and let Harry "corrupt" Reid reject it day after day after day. Let the Senate Demonicrats own this along with their socialist quasi Marxist leader, President Obama.
Give Obama the economic policy he "says he wants" but for only two years and not one day more. The people will then get to vote on the results in the next elections.
You have obviously given this a lot of thought and your post reflects it. I agree with just about everything you said with the exception of “There is not one damn thing Obama can do to stop it, even if he does utilize sound and sane economic policy relative to tax and spending.” I’m still mulling that part over.
The problems we are now facing and will continue to face belong not just to Obama, but the entire Congress, the SCOTUS AND Obama.
Regardless of whether Obama gets the sequester or not, he will blame the ‘Pubbies; blame they have largely earned by NOT speaking up, NOT staying true to their conservative roots and NOT going to the American taxpayers and saying “this is what the Democrats are REALLY doing . . . . . . “ By FAILING to protect America from the Marxists pigs, they have betrayed their oath of office and their obligation to the Founders to ensure that, if the Founders could come back to America today, they would find an America better than the one they left.
Absent a civil or revolutionary war, there are steps that can be taken that may still preserve the remnants of America and allow us to restore the country to the beacon of freedom the Founders envisioned. What I am thinking of is for the red states to secede, re-form as the America the Founders created and ban ANY Democrats, leftists, liberals, or takers from living in OUR America.
“If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” That was the credo of the first Pilgrim settlers and should be the credo of the new America, excepting only those who are mentally or physically incapable of working. I have other suggested changes on my about page here at FR.
At the end of the day, I have to agree with you that our future is already written. If not secession, civil, race or revolutionary war is likely staring at us from the not too distant future. Our government is irreparably broken and CANNOT be fixed at the ballot box. Too many here think it can. I am convinced, as I think you are, that we are beyond that point.
The only question now is, what emerges afterward? Will there be a new America, two Americas (one for liberals and one for conservatives), or any America at all? We know that we can survive the future as a free an independent nation, but is there the will to do so?