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pjohns
03-06-2013, 06:54 PM
Unsurprisingly, the Obama administration is attempting to cause as much pain as possible during the Sequester, so as to stoke the public's outrage, in the hope that it will result in a change of congressional control in 2014. (Well, the midterm election, itself, will be in November 2014; although the actual changeover would not occur until January 2015.)

It is almost certainly a fatuous hope. Nonetheless, it appears to be there. (The old axiom, "Hope springs eternal," is probably applicable here.)

The Washington Times has an interesting story on this matter; an excerpt from which is copied, below:


The White House announced Tuesday that it is canceling tours of the president’s home for the foreseeable future as the sequester spending cuts begin to bite and the administration makes good on its warnings of painful decisions.

Announcement of the decision — made in an email from the White House Visitors Office — came hours after The Washington Times reported on another administration email that seemed to show at least one agency has been instructed to make sure the cuts are as painful as President Obama promised they would be.

In the internal email, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service official Charles Brown said he asked if he could try to spread out the sequester cuts in his region to minimize the impact, and he said he was told not to do anything that would lessen the dire impacts Congress had been warned of.

“We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be,” Mr. Brown, in the internal email, said his superiors told him.

And the link to the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/5/email-tells-feds-make-sequester-painful-promised/

It is brass-knuckle, Chicago-style politics, taken to a new (and frightening!) level...

zelmo1234
03-06-2013, 07:08 PM
Does it really surprise you?

He is a total fruad! He can't justify his tax and spend policies they are not working and the cuts if administered correctly would go largely unnoticed.

This cut is so small that it would be insignificant. and the President know that if he does not do everything in his power to mkae them painful people will see that he is nothing more than a socialist liar!

And the cards could start to fall. if the people see that liberalism is taking it's natural course. And it's natural course is poverty, dispair and the loss of freedom!

Chris
03-06-2013, 08:46 PM
Just another lie since the spending cuts are not cuts in spending but cuts in planned spending increases.

Pete7469
03-07-2013, 12:12 AM
Notice how the welfare parasites aren't worried about their income?

simpsonofpg
03-07-2013, 12:35 PM
The welfare recieptents voted this guy in and the rest of us will pay the piper. What is happening to our country. We need a new president and more than that a new congress. These guys are out of control.

Cigar
03-07-2013, 01:11 PM
Yep ... it's comments like these that secure The Republicans place :f_cheers:

Love that re-branding :grin:

Pete7469
03-07-2013, 01:18 PM
The welfare recieptents voted this guy in and the rest of us will pay the piper. What is happening to our country. We need a new president and more than that a new congress. These guys are out of control.

The politicians aren't the only problem. We have a media/entertainment industry that is nothing more than a propaganda ministry of the democrook party. That's why bed wetters so deeply loathe Fox News and any voice that challenges their programming. As conservatives, libertarians, or republicans we need to compromise with each other and solve problems, because we clearly can not expect anything from the moonbats that will be productive, let alone just not destructive.

Cigar
03-07-2013, 01:26 PM
During the first four years of the Obama administration, his Republican opposition used the filibuster a record number of times. Sources vary, but most agree it more than 125 times, and some sources say it was as much as 200 times.

patrickt
03-07-2013, 03:50 PM
I worked for a municipal government and the first time I had to write a budget including cuts we produced one that would maintain the level of service to the public. The boss went crazy and threw it on his desk and called me an idiot. The point was do have a budget that reduced service to the public as much as possible while maintaining politicians' perks. I'm sure it's the same at a national level, perhaps in spades.