Obama’s sequester strategy: Divide and conquer
He will divide, isolate and defeat Republicans using all the powers of his office and all his skills as a political campaigner. As Americans grow frustrated with the cuts, Republicans will reject their party’s no-tax mantra and demand that Congress end the standoff, even if it means raising some new revenue – just the way Obama is demanding.
Obama’s trying to speed this result, by releasing state by state details of the pain and suffering the sequester will cause, all meant to get Republicans to cave. And he’s got the biggest megaphone, hammering this message over and over in a way the divided Republican party cannot.
Except that message could cut both ways.
What if the public agrees that yes, there is a lot of pain and suffering – and turns to Obama wondering, why didn’t you do more to prevent it?
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I think a few are starting to wise up .
Lucano on February 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM
His “gambit” is even dumber than that….
want to know how evil Barack Obama really is?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/25/184148/in-face-of-coming-budget-cuts.html
Barky released a bunch on incarcerated criminal illegal immigrants…
after he started pushing to disarm the citizenry.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/341528/squeezing-medicare-advantage-john-fund
Barky’s Medicare cuts arrive you know the ones he said Romney was lying about his having engaged in to get Barkycare?
If Barky Choom tells you the Earth revolves around the Sun I’d still double check the data….
and his idiotic “you’re all going to die!” hype books while great for Free Sh*t Army’s intellectual level leave a little to be desired.
If the Sequester is so evil why did Bark sign it and then never pressure the Alleged Pederast Harry Reid to negotiate in good faith?
Barky it was less than two miles to the Searchlight Strangler’s Senatorial Chamber….
why are you 1800 miles away studly?
harlekwin15 on February 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM
That says it all. He has no interest is governing or negotiating. If only Republican leaders understood this four years ago.
WisRich on February 26, 2013 at 12:48 PM
Come out alive…and the left will wet their pants, the weasels.
It’s NOT a cut.
Anyone who uses the term “cut” should spontaneously combust.
Schadenfreude on February 26, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Once my taxes went up last month – because of the payroll tax increase – I had to find a way to manage with 2% less in my budget, now the federal monster should be able to.
MoreLiberty on February 26, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Maybe it was just a bad dream, but I could have sworn the Republicans just voted to raise taxes recently.
forest on February 26, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Obama despises Republicans. He is getting his rocks off from this Sequester he created. He has no intentions of fixing America. All he wants to do is beat up on Republicans.
OxyCon on February 26, 2013 at 1:49 PM
Obama wants new revenue?
Opening ANWR to oil drilling would generate new revenue.
Selling 1% of federally owned land per year would generate new revenue.
Requiring employers of illegal aliens to pay an additional payroll tax would generate new revenue.
Billing Hollywood for the costs of copyright enforcement would generate new revenue.
I could go on, and I expect others could to.
agmartin on February 26, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Yep. Anyone who opposes a narcissist MUST be punished and get their faces ground into the dirt. That’s all he cares about. Collateral damage be damned.
inviolet on February 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM