The president is raging against a budget crisis he created
Having first proposed and demanded the sequester, it would make sense that the president lead the effort to replace it. Unfortunately, he has put forth no detailed plan that can pass Congress, and the Senate—controlled by his Democratic allies—hasn’t even voted on a solution, let alone passed one. By contrast, House Republicans have twice passed plans to replace the sequester with common-sense cuts and reforms that protect national security.
The president has repeatedly called for even more tax revenue, but the American people don’t support trading spending cuts for higher taxes. They understand that the tax debate is now closed.
The president got his higher taxes—$600 billion from higher earners, with no spending cuts—at the end of 2012. He also got higher taxes via ObamaCare. Meanwhile, no one should be talking about raising taxes when the government is still paying people to play videogames, giving folks free cellphones, and buying $47,000 cigarette-smoking machines. …
So, as the president’s outrage about the sequester grows in coming days, Republicans have a simple response: Mr. President, we agree that your sequester is bad policy. What spending are you willing to cut to replace it?
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Why spoil a good BSM narrative with the truth?
CPT. Charles on February 20, 2013 at 10:40 AM
Boehner:
Keep your mouth shut and let the dems make their move. You have stuck your foot up your own backside to many times in the past.
trs on February 20, 2013 at 10:42 AM
Let the Obama-Sequester happen
Weight of Glory on February 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM
The sequester belongs to Obysmal and his Treasury nominee Jack Lew. Let them own it.
In the meantime, whoever generated the message above for Boehner deserves kudos. The facts have to get out to the public.
onlineanalyst on February 20, 2013 at 10:58 AM
The sequester is an insignificant amount of money. Obama is raising a big stink about it so he can blame the coming economic collapse on it. The collapse is baked into the cake, the only way to avoid it is far larger cuts than the sequester, but no one in government will propose them.
Obama wants it established in people’s minds that cutting government = economic disaster.
zmdavid on February 20, 2013 at 10:58 AM
Fixed the headline:
The president is raging against a budget crisis
hethat most people believe the Republicans createdalbill on February 20, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Ace of Spades got it right:
Drained Brain on February 20, 2013 at 11:37 AM
I should have included Byron York’s piece, which hits the nail on the head: The GOP’s astonishingly bad message on sequester cuts
Drained Brain on February 20, 2013 at 11:39 AM
For once, an effective response by the Speaker.
I would have added that the President’s current railing against the sequester showed that he did not negotiate in good faith when proposing the sequester, and therefore gives more evidence that the President should not be negotiated with.
Scott H on February 20, 2013 at 11:40 AM
Thanks to you, you crybaby POS. You’re too friggin stupid to be in charge of anything. You’ve gotten rolled by (or rolled over for, which is even worse) the dumbest, most inept, incompetent sack of sh!t to ever occupy the White House. You got beat by a guy with an 84 IQ and no talents or skills of any sort, whatsoever … save his thin skin. And yet, you didn’t take yourself out of leadership but pushed and bullied to stay in a place where you can do even more damage and then cry about it as you’re doing now.
Boner-head, go away and disappear. You suck. You’re awful. You’re dumb. FOAD before you let Barky do any more damage than you’ve paved the way for him over the past two years (and even how you let him off the hook while you were screwing up your post as minority leader). If you had any shame you would have committed seppuku long ago.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 20, 2013 at 11:43 AM
How about a little proportion on this sequestration talk?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/341106/sequester-proportion-yuval-levin
onlineanalyst on February 20, 2013 at 11:45 AM
Boehner – quoted from Congressional Golf Course – I suspect?
jake-the-goose on February 20, 2013 at 11:47 AM
The point isn’t to fix the problem.
The point is to use the situation to beat up on the GOP.
It’s classic Obama.
fossten on February 20, 2013 at 11:51 AM
The Punk drop a pile of sh*t on you and then says “you stink”.
Schadenfreude on February 20, 2013 at 11:52 AM
drops
Schadenfreude on February 20, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Please … Barky doesn’t beat up on the GOP. Barky’s an idiot who can’t do anything. Every conservative or group he’s gone after from the Oval Office has beat him senseless and rubbed his nose in the ground, from Rush to Palin and on. The House GOP and GOP leadership beats up on the GOP and then tries to blame the inept retard in the White House. Give me a break.
If anything, Barky unifies conservatives. It’s the Weeping Boner, Rove and the rest of the GOP sh!theads in power who are doing their utmost to commit political suicide, as with the latest amnesty push to finish off the death of the GOP that they just missed accomplishing from the amnesty push of 2006-2008 and the amnesty candidate.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 20, 2013 at 11:59 AM
And Rush is leading off with York’s piece right now.
Drained Brain on February 20, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Don’t sell your self short Mr. Raiser-of-Taxes, you helped manufacture this fabricated crisis. Anyone who trusts Boehner at this point is delusional.
Panther on February 20, 2013 at 12:38 PM
I did not think the WSJ article read the way Rush is interpreting the York article. Rush should read from the WSJ and not someone else’s idea of what it says plus their spin.
Of course the Wall Street Journal is dry reading, boring, almost as gosh darn boring as Mitt Romney in a suit.
Fleuries on February 20, 2013 at 12:47 PM
-John Boehner
Barach Obama was supposed to itemize his cuts last September around the time of Benghazi and Beyonce/JAYZee. But the dog ate Obama’s homework.
Fleuries on February 20, 2013 at 12:49 PM
85 billion in cuts from a 3600 billion dollar budget? Thats extreme? Boehner is an idiot and with him in the house the republicans will never cut the budget
snoopicus on February 20, 2013 at 12:54 PM
How is that amnesty thing going Mr. Speaker? Get your RINO ducks in order.
Wigglesworth on February 20, 2013 at 1:06 PM