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Fail. That bill doesn't get rid of the sequester. It shifts the sequester to domestic programs. Where's the bill to get rid of "Obama's sequester?"
Fail because the Dems don't want to do ANYTHING except run for re-election. And then, when re-elected, they want to do NOTHING except play the Blame Game. The Dem-controlled Senate hasn't passed a budget in FOUR years!!
When are you Dems going to grow up and take responsibility????
I agree with former DNC chairman Howard Dean...We have a serious fiscal issue...the sequester is the best deal that we will get...may as well take it.
I actually think that's the case with both the left and right. The left will like the pentagon spending cuts and the right will like the domestic spending cuts.
Fail because the Dems don't want to do ANYTHING except run for re-election. And then, when re-elected, they want to do NOTHING except play the Blame Game. The Dem-controlled Senate hasn't passed a budget in FOUR years!!
When are you Dems going to grow up and take responsibility????
The Democrats are calling the sequester, "Obama's sequester?"
Bob Woodward, who wrote a book about the sequestration, blows the whistle on President Obama’s claim during last night’s debate that the idea of using deep, automatic, across-the-board domestic and defense spending cuts to force Congress to address the nation’s burgeoning federal deficit originated in Congress, not in the White House. “What the president said is not correct,” Woodward told Politico.
In his book, The Price of Politics, Woodward reported that White House Office of Management Director Jack Lew and Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors took the proposal for sequestration to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and then it was presented to congressional Republicans. Following Monday’s debate, Woodward stood behind his reporting which, he said, drew upon sources involved in last year’s deficit talks and is supported by detailed notes.
Perhaps he could have got out there and rolled his sleeves up and found some middle ground to get enough votes with a plan. I suppose threatening to veto any undoing of the automatic cuts that were his idea does pin it on Obama.
Love him or hate him, he hasn't been a good leader.
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