A memory from February 21, 2013
The sequester was the Obamas administration idea. Obama has never denied that. But we do have checks and balances. It took the Congress and Senate to approve it, 174 Republicans and 95 Democrats in the House. This wasn’t done in a vacuum. This was not an Executive Order. The sequester was made necessary by a group from the malicious right that elected congressmen committed to destroying the Obama administration regardless of the consequences. The Obama administration is carefully pointing out the consequences of this sequester which is then being spun into the notion that nobody else had anything to do with it, but Obama. What has been going on for some time is that a false image of Obama has been constantly developed and sold Madison Avenue style to the sycophantic base and then this false image is ridiculed and attacked. To put things in proper context, we need to revisit the 2011 Congress and listen to the words of John Boehner. If we were to just blindly accept the notion that the sequester is all Obamas fault, we would fairly conclude that he is such a dynamic leader that he has made a rubber stamp out of the Congress.
What would John Boehner and Mitch McConnell say about that?
The sequester was the Obamas administration idea. Obama has never denied that. But we do have checks and balances. It took the Congress and Senate to approve it, 174 Republicans and 95 Democrats in the House. This wasn’t done in a vacuum. This was not an Executive Order. The sequester was made necessary by a group from the malicious right that elected congressmen committed to destroying the Obama administration regardless of the consequences. The Obama administration is carefully pointing out the consequences of this sequester which is then being spun into the notion that nobody else had anything to do with it, but Obama. What has been going on for some time is that a false image of Obama has been constantly developed and sold Madison Avenue style to the sycophantic base and then this false image is ridiculed and attacked. To put things in proper context, we need to revisit the 2011 Congress and listen to the words of John Boehner. If we were to just blindly accept the notion that the sequester is all Obamas fault, we would fairly conclude that he is such a dynamic leader that he has made a rubber stamp out of the Congress.
What would John Boehner and Mitch McConnell say about that?
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