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Obama Blasts His Own Idea Of Sequester
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freedomoutpost.com — Barack Obama, standing in front of seventeen first responders, blasted Republicans on Tuesday for refusing to raise taxes as part of a deal to avoid the “sequester” cuts. However, it was his own administration who not only championed the idea of the sequester, but he is the man that signed it into law.
Given that Obama signed the sequester into law, one would think you would not hear him do an about face on it by stating that first responders’ “ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded. Border patrol agents will see their hours reduced. FBI agents will be furloughed. Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go… These cuts are not smart, they are not fair, they will hurt our economy, they will add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls.”
This is all par for the course with Washington politicians and we have come to expect nothing from Mr. Obama. After all Barack Obama is a big tax, big government guy.
Interestingly enough though, though he blamed Republicans for this manufactured crisis, which they did agree to, who was ultimately responsible for these cuts that “are not smart,…not fair,…will hurt our economy… and,” as Obama simplified in his speech, cause “people to lose their jobs”? We’ll let Bob Woodward of The Washington Post answer:
On Fox News Sunday the question from Chris Wallace was, “Bob, as the man who literally wrote the book about the budget battle, put this to rest. Whose idea was the sequester, and did you ever think that we’d actually get to this point?”
“First, it was the White House,” Woodward answered. “It was Obama and Jack Lew and Rob Nabors who went to the Democratic Leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, and said, ‘this is the solution.’ But everyone has their fingerprints on this.”
Guy Benson elaborates on the fact that “everyone has their fingerprints on this.” He writes, “Woodward went on to say that "everyone has their fingerprints" on the package of cuts — which is true to a large extent. The idea was the Obama administration's brain child, they proposed it, members of both parties in both houses voted for the 2011 debt deal (in which the sequester was embedded), and the president affixed his signature to it. He also threatened to veto Republicans' attempts to make the cuts more responsible and targeted. But now, as Obama tells it, America faces a sequester-induced apocalypse, and it's all the GOP's fault. Criminals will run free. Airport delays will get worse. Fires will burn unfought. Puppies will go uncuddled. All because Republicans are willing to allow the president's own proposal to go into effect. Has Obama offered a detailed plan to offset sequestration? He has not, but he's hitching his wagon to Senate Democrats' plan — half of which is paid for through new tax increases, while the other half remains heavy on defense cuts. Obama refers to these tax increases as "tax reform," because they would reduce and close loopholes and tax subsidies for certain families and corporations. This would include gimmicks like the Buffett Rule and corporate jet depreciation tweaks. But the genuine tax reform that Republicans have agreed to in principle refers to cutting out clutter in our tax code by closing loopholes and deductions in exchange for lowering tax rates. This approach tracks closely with the recommendations of Obama's own fiscal commission, which he promptly ignored. Indeed, Obama just raised

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lastbaldeagle
Posted 89 days ago
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Origin of Left and Right

I have often wondered why it is that Conservatives are called the "right" and Liberals are called the "left."

By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can't get any simpler than that.

Spelling Lesson

The last four letters in American..........I Can The last four letters in Republican.......I Can The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats

End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2014

Remember, November is to be set aside as rodent extermination month.
bish66
Posted 88 days ago
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@lastbaldeagle
Oh, you will love this...
"The left hand has long been associated with deviance. The word “sinister” originally meant “to the left” in Latin. The word “left” comes from the Old English word lyft, which literally meant “weak, foolish.” To avoid the negative and superstitious associations of the left side, many languages used euphemisms for it. In Old English the left side was called winestra, which meant “friendlier.”

When did the political affiliation of these two common words arise? In fact, the association is not American at all. It originated during the French Revolution. In the 1790s, King Louis XVI was fighting with the Legislative Assembly. Like our modern-day House of Representatives, seating in the French Legislative Assembly was arranged based on political affiliation. The King sat in front of the assembly. To his right sat the conservative Feuillants who backed the king and believed in a constitutional monarchy. To his left sat the liberal Girondists and radical Jacobins who wanted to install a completely democratic government. Oddly enough, in the U.S. House of Representatives the tables have turned: members of the Republican party sit to the left of the House Speaker and members of the Democratic party sit to his or her right."

http://hotword.dictionary.com/leftright/#kVgMom41XLMuy2Ch.99

BTW: you find "pub" in Republican and "emo" in Democrat. Does that mean Republicans love to drink while Democrats like punk music?

P.S.: Your little game of last four letters is rigged. You say "Democrats", plural, but "American & Republican", singular. So, to have an analogy, you either have "cans" or "crat".
lastbaldeagle
Posted 88 days ago
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@bish66

What in the Hell are you rambling on about? Do your ears pop when you pull your head out? I do understand the connection with left and sinister. Still holds true.
lightdude
Posted 87 days ago
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@bish66 So bish, are you the man or the woman? Just asking?
curmudgeon
Posted 88 days ago
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He only lies because he knows the media wing of his party known as the 'main stream media' will never call him out on his serial lying.
lightdude
Posted 88 days ago
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Every thing he creates he blames on Republicans and the uninformed (Or what I like to call ignorant) hang on his every (lying) word.
bish66
Posted 88 days ago
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Former German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a Christian Democrat and conservative, once famously said: "What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday?"
Never let the truth come in your way of argumentation.
lastbaldeagle
Posted 88 days ago
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@bish66

And you always seem to be confused by facts? Your hero Goebbels also said a lie will be believed if told ofter enough. Seems to be a democRAT mantra.
lightdude
Posted 87 days ago
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@lastbaldeagle YUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!! What he said.
bish66
Posted 86 days ago
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@lastbaldeagle
Goebbels my hero? I have no idea where you get that idea. He was a Nazi, which is as far right as you can go. I thought you had me down as left/liberal...
lightdude
Posted 83 days ago
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@bish66 Wrong direction. Nazis were far left not right. Blahblah
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