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I know it's nothing new, but Liar Obama has done it again and the Dem lemmings just eat it up;
Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround the sequester, the term for the $85 billion in ugly and largely irrational federal spending cuts set by law to begin Friday.
What is the non-budget wonk to make of this? Who is responsible? What really happened?
The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”
The White House chief of staff at the time, Jack Lew, who had been budget director during the negotiations that set up the sequester in 2011, backed up the president two days later.
“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”
The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.
Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.
Bob Woodward's been banging the tables of various talk shows for weeks, making the same fairly banal point: The White House proposed sequestration as part of a package to raise the debt limit in 2011. Watching Woodward in action has been disconcerting for the many reporters who covered the story in real time. Did the White House float sequestration as a "trigger" to force a better, later deal from Congress? Yes. Would this have ever become an issue if Republicans hadn't chosen to hogtie the debt limit and hold a sixgun to its head for six months?
Obama does in fact blatantly lie on a frequent basis. He knows most of his supporters will never find out and the ones that do find out will blame it on Bush.
He has even lied about the circumstances of his own mother's death for political gain...
Lets see only one or two things could have happened, it was the Obama's administration idea or he got played by the {R}s. Which one do you think it was?
Libs are comfortable with a good Obozo lie. Being that they have denounced major religions and adopted Obama as their personal savior, as the mass media instructed them, he can do no wrong. In their minds, even when he does wrong, he is simply redefining the boundaries of what is right and wrong. It's like when god instructed Abraham to kill his son Isaac. Sure, god stopped him, but any rational person would have been a little perturbed, but since he was god and all I guess Abraham was cool about it. Just the same, Obama supported will accept all sorts of abuse at the hands of their führer. They will even step through the "cleansing chambers" at the FEMA camps once Obama gives our new diversity program the green light. Obama loves his little subservient worshipers...
Obama does in fact blatantly lie on a frequent basis. He knows most of his supporters will never find out and the ones that do find out will blame it on Bush.
He has even lied about the circumstances of his own mother's death for political gain...
Obama is a pathological liar. He thinks anything he repeats often enough becomes the truth.
Lets see only one or two things could have happened, it was the Obama's administration idea or he got played by the {R}s. Which one do you think it was?
Clearly, Obama lied. And his lemmings just follow along. They don't care if he tells lies. Chris Mathews leg is shaking just listening to his lies.
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