https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/23/the-manufactured-crisis-of-sequester/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 10:04:54 -0400<![CDATA[The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government’s size is at any moment, it is the bare minimum necessary to forestall intolerable suffering. At his unintentionally hilarious hysteria session Tuesday, Obama said: The sequester’s “meat-cleaver approach” of “severe,” “arbitrary” and “brutal” cuts will “eviscerate” education, energy and medical research spending. “And already, the threat of these cuts has forced the Navy to delay an aircraft carrier that was supposed to deploy to the Persian Gulf.”]]>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:05:44 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/23/the-manufactured-crisis-of-sequester-n100375