How do you turn a hard-left winger like Mahkey into a right-wing conservative?

Threaten to cut military jobs in his state.

Blame Bam Bam boy, he started it!

You hate the military. You always want to cut the military. When you get your way, you scream. If your politicians don´t lose their jobs in the next election, maybe they will be more thoughtful next time.

I wonder how many of those are union jobs?

Right on, #2. This was their idea and they are trying to pawn it off on the Republicans. Same with Obama spending trillions of dollars the past four years. He´s pretending he had noting to do with it, that we all have to pull his irons out of the fire and work together.

Notice that they did not mention who came up with this "sequestration" business in the first place, it was Obama and his crew, thinking that they could get the Republicans to wimp out and approve a lot of new tax increases to save the defense establishment from big cuts. Since it appears that the Republicans are not going to wimp out as Obama thought, Obama is now saying that "sequestration" is a " bad idea" without ever letting on that it was his idea in the first place, and of course so far anyway, the liberal Democrat still has Obama´s back.

I can´t imagine there is another state more deserving of this that Massachusetts, who elected the "Indian" to the senate. She is one of the biggest liars of all time, they knew it, every single one of them, and they elected her anyway. I truly hope this happens to these enormous dummies.

If you live there and weren´t part of this travesty and the travesty of Ted Kennedy for 40 or 50 years, then move away. You deserve better.

I don´t believe this figure but even if I did why do you need so many people doing military research when you´re trying to phase the military out in favor of drone and robot warfare??

We´re also being told ta therewill be acute bef and chicken shortages if the sequesters go through.This is all from a tiny slice of government spending being cut.

Obama,who just rung a tax increase out of republicans in the fiscal cliff deal wants more tax increases to address the sequester. This after Walmart posted in worse earnings in 7 years due to the SS tax increase.

Maybe there´s some relief on it´s way from Britain who´s leading an international fight against corporate tax cheats like GE,Google and Facebook.

FTA -- The squeeze has already caused scientists trained in Massachusetts to be wooed away by other countries because “they can offer them more money and brand new spanking labs,” Erwin said.

How do I get a job in a spanking lab.

Who did the study. Is the 60,000 jobs over ten years, I assume so. If Markey and the Globe are saying it, I don´t believe it.

Not building Keystone cut 60,000 jobs in Texas so the liberals in those blue states can go jump. My condolences to the conservatives that live there.

When Fauxcahantas had her first post-election news conference the question was raised "what are your plans to protect defense jobs in the state" and she immediately turned to Gov. Deval Patrick who told her "no, that question´s for you".

That is the level of concern and focus for defense jobs in the commonwealth.

Don´t they mean "if OBama fails to compromise?"

I don´t particularly want defense spending cut, or to have employees working for defense lose their jobs, but Massachusetts consistently votes in a way that shows it desires both. Bad for the country, so I don´t want it. Bad for lots of good employees, so I don´t want it for them. But Massachusetts as a state has only itself to blame and its politicians should bear the responsibility, even though they won´t.

Cutting 10% from the defense budget causes this... this is bull....why not cut the congressional staff, do away with the wasted travel, seminars, pay raises, jets to Egypt, aid to Syria, WH million $$$ parties. Of all the things the won has done this has upset more people than anything else. Soooo much gov waste. They must think the American people are stupid.

60,000 jobs just in Massachusetts...this is a drop in the bucket. California has a bunch more and there will be many union jobs too...no time to weep for them, many states will lose many jobs also and the sad part is they will go elsewhere to keep making a living while Obama and his cronies keep cashing their paychecks...maybe this will jar a few of the undecided jerks, the Dems and Liberals when 2014 rolls around as to who did this and Obamacare...the hits will keep on coming. Don´t have far to look, no Republicans touched Obamacare and the Sequester was Obama´s brainstorm...stew while he destroys our research, our Military and soon enough...our country.

Land of the Kennedy clan people you have no worry. Obama whom you support stood in front of the whole country and (just like the impeached William Jefferson Clinton (husband of the smartest woman in America)) said there would be NO sequestration and you can take that to the bank. But then he also said there would be no increases in taxes for under $250,000.

It was BHO, who came up with this sequestration, and, as not to be called a racist, I agree with his plan. Let the cuts begin! We must all share in the pain of recovery as he has told us.
I don´t buy it for a second because, if nothing else, it will cause such an uproar from across the Fruited Plains that no pol will feel they can go home, but even if it were true the cuts must start. Yippee Ki Yay. Just sayin.

These Massachusetts Libturds have nothing but contempt for those who serve. Remember "do your lessons or you will end up in Iraq?" No sympathy here.

There´s a reason why Obama and the Democrats agreed to the Sequester in 2011:

Because Standard & Poore´s had just cut our bond rating from Triple A to Double A, and S&P and its fellow rating agencies were threatening to cut it further unless our government gave an indication that it was serious about controlling our debt.

Reneging on the Sequester now would prove that our government was not and will not be fiscally responsible as promised, with all the ramifications of such a revelation.

Every investor who bought a U.S. Treasury bond since the Sequester was agreed to bought it on the understanding that the U.S. government would keep its promise to cut spending. If the government does not go through with the Sequester, it will have lied.

And the global investment community does not like being lied to. It´s response will be to demand continually higher interest rates on American bonds until our government proves it can be fiscally responsible, if ever, while the world watches U.S. Treasuries sink into junk-bond status and the U.S. itself into bankruptcy trying to pay off ever-rising interest rates.

But this is too much for Obama to be worrying about when the quality of his golf game is in the balance.

We´re running Trillion$+ deficits every year so the government can keep propping-up the economy in states like Mass. Eventually the gravy train will end.

The cesspit of Obamaland. Plenty of room, especially for those in Massachusetts who chose the cessmakers. Schadenfreude.

This couldn´t happen to a more deserving state. Deep deep blue {or blew } Massholes voted this fool into office, now let them live with the consequences.

How nice, a liberal state will now suffer like the other states that liberals have destroyed. Maybe they will wake up to what government does to destroy good hard working people. I hope so.

Don`t worry everyone, there won`t be any cuts. Boehner and McConnell will cave as usual. That`s what they do.

They vote liberal and they talk funny. Who better to bear the brunt of their own policies?

Don´t worry. The men can get jobs working for Bawney Frank´s friend....out of Bawney´s basement. There´s always job openings there. /s

Couldn´t happen to a more leftwing state.

Reply 2 is correct. Obama started this. This is his baby!

in a word ..........good.......hope it does not impact too much on our brave men and women in uniform

Welcome to the real world, Massachusetts. ...Plus, the entire beltway, ´´Boomtown,´´ gang will also get to experience what they have done to the rest of the country due to their devistating statist dem policies! Their lefty/lib/statist political follies have indeed deemed, ´´CHANGE,´´ upon America the Beautiful.-YIKES!!!

...The lefties just might have second thoughts regarding conjuring up any future disasterous statist spending & deeming policies after they too get a dose of their own pricy, bitter, political correctness.

Serves them right for imposing the traitor that lost the war Kerry on the nation!

good

The Democrat´s have an out. The House has passed legislation dealing with the sequestration last year and passed it again this year. It just doesn´t have the tax increases the Dems want.

All they need to do is come up with a budget. /s

They are playng poker again. Let´s call their bluff. They aren´t worried about the Military. They are worried about Welfare cuts. That´s it They want people Republicans to get all worried and put pressure on our team. Stand Your Ground. Or You are Out Next Election!!!

The voters of the Bay State certainly have inflicted some rotten political types on the rest of us for quite a few decades. As such, I really can´t lose any sleep about anything that might impact them in a hurtful way.

If their current political leaders were to be in charge of planning the original Boston Tea Party, we would all be British subjects today.

"if Congress enacts sequestration"? Congress signed on to Obama´s sequestration plan long ago. There will be no new "enactment". Obviously, Tracy and Bryan are trying to push blame away from the President and on to the Congress.

Aha! But the one said if they raised the debt limit in 2011, everything would be okey-dokey! But wait . . . the debt limit needs to be raised again! But wait . . . the one said he´d be open to a smaller deal! But wait . . . is he workin´ the phones negotiating this "smaller deal"?!? No he´s in Fla. taking $1,000 hr golf lessons!

There are good people in MA; please don´t put this on all of them.

Scary, boo-hoo stories every day and every night..
The Republicans BETTER hold firm and I mean it. Make Obama eat this very unpleasant sandwich.

#37.......there are good people everywhere. It seems in Mass there are enough of them. Maybe in another year this will go up another 60,000.

Nothing has changed much since 1776.
Ma. was also home to more British rule Tory´s than freedom fighters.

Maybe Mass. should not vote for Indian Squaws.

Boo hoo. Where´s the 60,000? In entitlement programs? If MA doesn´t like sequestration, let them borrow money to pay for it. Besides, all sequestration does is limit the 8% increase in goobermint largesse each and every year. It´s really no cut at all.