Abdicating Accountability Again by Mendacious Mitch McConnell.

I don’t think Obama deserves any more blame than Congress. Everyone sort of agreed that the Deficits needed to be reduced but no one was willing to make specific cuts at the time. So they decided to make across the board cuts in a year or so if they still couldn’t agree.

Here we are. No big surprise.

Both sides think that they can blame the other and duck any blame. AFAIC I blame both and see no real attempt to do anything that would help the 99%. This is just another episode in govt of ws, by ws, and for ws.

Well put. I was gonna say he is a lying sack of shit.

Let’s face it – the people in Congress or either completely dumb or they are corrupt. They haven’t solved any problem that really matters in quite awhile and don’t want to. They are too cowardly to take responsibility for the results of any actual decisions.

All that has been said above is true. But we must remember this was intended as a poison pill for the deficit reduction committee. But it didn’t work. On the Sunday morning government propaganda shows everybody not a government propagandist said that this sequestration will cost us 600,000 jobs, mostly teachers, policemen, firemen, some fed govt workers and people who work for defense contractors.

YOU watch the legislaturds kick this down the road.

Let’s face it – the people in Congress or either completely dumb or they are corrupt.

Not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Our legislaturds remind me of my 7 year old neighbor across the street when he hit a baseball and it broke our window, my mother went RIGHT over abd asked did you do that?

Standing there with his baseball bat in his hand, he said, “No.”

The kid no doubt at some point will become your Senator. :)

Obama wants the Grand Bargain. That is the reason Sequestration was created. The Grand Bargain will be much more damaging than Sequestration.

“No. Obama did.”

“I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending.” –Barack Obama, November 21, 2011

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57329146-503544/obama-pledges-to-veto-effort-to-undo-automatic-spending-cuts/

You’re right. Obummer is looking for yet another opportunity to throw grandma under the bus by cutting Social Security. Let’s hope the Repugs don’t play along.

In Texas we elect such liars governor.

And some even become president.

They’re not only going to play along, they’re going to play Obama. They’ll blame O for the temporary Defense cuts and then blame him again for cutting Social Security, which is exactly what Republicans have wanted all along. Stoopit.

Democratic messaging is so bad the false republican talking points will stick (with a little help from the republican talking points media) Why is democratic messaging so bad? Why is media reporting so right wing? Between the dems refusal to improve their messaging which has been second rate, their refusal to tackle voting issues, and their refusal to tackle gerrymandering issues; I cannot take the democratic party seriously.

So, you’re saying Obama will just sit there and let the repugs poke him with a stick and do nothing?????

I agree.

I cannot take the democratic party seriously.

That’s WHY they call it a party. :-)

Why is democratic messaging so bad?

It used to defy my imagination that a party supported by the nation’s most successful trial lawyers–people who make a living arguing before 12 people with roughly the IQ of the electorate–are so blitheringly inept at making simple arguments. Now I know better: the Democrats don’t want a progressive agenda, and have thus allowed GOP talking points to go unrefuted for years.

The White House bragged at the time how the sequester was such a good thing calling it a victory:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheet-victory-bipartisan-compromise-economy-american-people
If the White House didn’t want the “enforcement mechanism,” they shouldn’t have touted it, which this is the President who brought us the Catfood Commission, which the “enforcement mechanism” is total Pete Peterson and this expressly part of Obama’s “shared sacrifice.” You’ll also note BTW that in Obama bragging about all this, he expressly calls out this being used for “entitlement reform” (he’s attacking “entitlements” not defending them).

The idea for the sequester was Jack Lew’s (who Obama is now trying to promote) and Obama threatened to veto a bill that would have stopped the automatic spending cuts:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/195141-white-house-no-wiggle-room-on-obama-veto-threat-
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/president-obama-has-had-a-change-of-heart-about-the-sequester/272867/

There will be wailing and rending of garments en route to the Grand Bargain, but it will happen.

Prediction: Obama and the mandarins of the Democratic Party will tell the party’s base, “we had no choice.”

I disagree. This Sequestration nonsense is Obama all the way. He really really wanted it. The man is a closet Republican who is focussed more on deficit and Defense rather than on the middle class and jobs. And, there should be no surprise when Obama finally earns that elusive bipartisan credential through that Grand Bargain, which among other things will cut medicare and Social Security and make only token cuts in Defense if at all. The Democratic party is the nothing but a new GOP.

The Democratic messaging is bad because the Democrats are bad. It’s the Democrats who brought us the Catfood Commission. Obama loves austerity, just he’s a snakeoil salesman who continually lies.

No big surprise here. The Thugs would blame Obama for the sun rising in the east if they thought anyone would believe them.

“We had no choice” was always going to be the way to sell that elusive and all-important “Grand Bargain”.

Precisely. Same as it always was.

This is our government at work.

I agree Obama owns these cuts. He could have vetoed the bill and let congress live with the consequences of their debt hostage taking. But never fear, it is still a few weeks away and there is plenty of time until the day before to really ramp up the cuts into a “grand bargain” to make us all proud.

Obama’s lies still apparently are working. Obama wants his own revisionist history to reign – he’s the one who threatened to veto legislation that would get rid of any of the sequester cuts:

One way or another, we will be trimming the deficit by a total of at least $2.2 trillion over the next 10 years. That’s going to happen, one way or another. We’ve got $1 trillion locked in, and either Congress comes up with $1.2 trillion, which so far they’ve failed to do, or the sequester kicks in and these automatic spending cuts will occur that bring in an additional $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction.Now, the question right now is whether we can reduce the deficit in a way that helps the economy grow, that operates with a scalpel, not with a hatchet, and if not, whether Congress is willing to stick to the painful deal that we made in August for the automatic cuts. Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts.

My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/21/statement-president-supercommittee

Obama categorically wants the “painful deal” and elsewhere in the announcement went so far as to brag about his own proposal to gut Medicare and Medicade:
“In September, I sent them a detailed plan that would have gone above and beyond that goal. >

It’s a plan that would reduce the deficit by an additional $3 trillion, by cutting spending, slowing the growth of Medicare and Medicaid, and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share.”

Why does Mitch McConnell always look like he just got one over on you?

I know, not a very productive observation, but he gives me the creeps.