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How the GOP forced Obama´s hand
Politico, by CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN and JAKE SHERMAN

Original Article

Posted By:FlyRight, 3/8/2013 7:49:57 AM

President Barack Obama used to want a grand deficit deal because he philosophically believed it was best for the country, and politically believed it was best for him.Now he needs it because he has no choice. Obama’s failure to avert $85 billion in spending cuts known as the sequester underscored the limits of his outside strategy and signaled that he could not persuade Republicans to raise revenue again without a comprehensive agreement to overhaul the Tax Code and entitlements

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: franq, 3/8/2013 8:03:16 AM     (No. 9214481)

More lies. They aren´t spending cuts, they´re reductions in spending increases. And Puppet Hussein has no real beliefs, he only does what he´s told. While living the buena vida in the process.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 3/8/2013 8:13:26 AM     (No. 9214495)

Get ready for these commies to up the ante and move the goal posts.

They know that they must control the narrative.

Even another fresh disaster or scandal will serve to flush the headlines clean of this loss.

Watch for it.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 3/8/2013 8:21:21 AM     (No. 9214508)

I disagree #1. He has beliefs but they are all very bad for the country. He has a sick desire to punish because too many are still not under the Government´s control, and he can´t have that stand.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Vivi, 3/8/2013 8:27:58 AM     (No. 9214528)

Yeah, I´m watching for some wagging dogs. Rich people to blame. David Gregory will book appropriate guests. Woodward will be back on board. They had lunch or something. Joe Scarborough will be mocking cheetoh eaters. Insanity.


Reply 5 - Posted by: happy conservative, 3/8/2013 8:48:33 AM     (No. 9214575)

Republicans have been duped by "making nice" to them, yet again.

Nope, get behind Rand, Cruz, and Rubio, it´s our last shot.


Reply 6 - Posted by: noproblems, 3/8/2013 8:53:35 AM     (No. 9214592)

dont forget that 0bama has got to provide a budget. his budgets have been a joke and it could really hurt him this time.

i think a lot of the outreach he has been conducting this week is cover for his budget proposal


Reply 7 - Posted by: uscgretired99, 3/8/2013 9:18:42 AM     (No. 9214661)

Iwent to CPB.com and as of 2009 there were 20,000 agents, have we hired enought to get to 60,000 agents since then? me smells a rat.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 3/8/2013 9:30:36 AM     (No. 9214703)

To quote George Bernard Shaw in "Man and Superman,"
´Man measures his strength by his destructiveness.´
This is how I see Obama in his punitive mode.


Reply 9 - Posted by: Gartrell Bibberts, 3/8/2013 9:33:11 AM     (No. 9214711)

For every announced "crushing budget cut", the Republicans need to loudly publicize some stupid spending, like the Tea Tasting Board, that didn´t get cut.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Gallo3, 3/8/2013 10:35:27 AM     (No. 9214885)

Somewhere there has to be a list of wasteful gummint programs our good guys can whip out and cite every time they get before the cameras.


Reply 11 - Posted by: OhMy, 3/8/2013 10:43:16 AM     (No. 9214916)

The gubmint is still hiring for foolish things in the midst of all these sky is falling cuts! We need to keep a sequesterthis list handy - with Obamacare at the top of it.


Reply 12 - Posted by: AutumnJoy, 3/8/2013 10:45:29 AM     (No. 9214922)

"If you are desirous to prevent the overrunning of the state by any sect, show it toleration"- Voltaire

Obama must be feeling some nipping at his heels. Hope the GOP doesn´t fall for this charade.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: stryker714, 3/8/2013 11:09:16 AM     (No. 9214990)

True that #6, especially the last sentence. The DC commies have made some mistakes and they will make more, count on it. Their theory is broken for one thing, can´t go the distance and they continue to break law after law after law.

The writing on the wall says it will probably take the can opening of one of their scandals that is so explosive, not even independents and democrats can ignore it(IMHO). That might be the only thing that would light a fire under the Senate democrats donkeys to do something, like impeach and remove. Then the tantrum would be over. Just a smoking cape on the floor.


Reply 14 - Posted by: M2, 3/8/2013 11:29:24 AM     (No. 9215032)

Are Boehner really this naive?:

“This week, we’ve gone 180,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday. “After being in office now for four years, he’s actually going to sit down and talk to members.”

If Boehner believes that this lunch/dinner was anything other than a sound bite to make Obama look reasonable and measured, he is off his rocker.

This dinner with the GOP will yield NOTHING from this White House, but because Obama deigned to break bread with sycophantic establishment GOP members, they suddenly think Obama will give up something? Or compromise on anything substantive?

This is why the GOP is in such trouble; you know you cannot trust Obama to keep his word on anything, yet suddenly Boehner et al are hopeful that the leopard will change his spots?

Geez.....the GOP is so over unless the young Turks take over.


Reply 15 - Posted by: GreatPlains, 3/8/2013 1:03:23 PM     (No. 9215208)

Very interesting article, since Budoff Brown is a major Obama sycophant.
I must check to see if Hades is covered in ice.
It´s finally become apparent to some in the media that the White House made
a serious miscalculation on sequester.
FTA- " Republicans felt burned by the fiscal cliff deal, opposed further tax hikes and, contrary to West Wing predictions,
would not cave."
Obama is being forced to do something he hasn´t done
in over fours years-discuss issues with Republicans.
Usually he´s campaigning against them and maligning them, as is unfortunately,
the pattern of the far right.
It´s also appears that Obama´s going to have trouble with his Democrat House and Senate members.
Both Reid and Pelosi are digging in their tiny heels.


Reply 16 - Posted by: strike3, 3/8/2013 4:06:23 PM     (No. 9215477)

It was a surprise to me that the GOP didn´t outright cave on the sequester like they have done on everything else on obama´s wish list since 2008. I think they go into some of these fights with good intentions but then they get the phone calls in the middle of the night and the anonymous pictures of their girlfriends or boyfriends in the mail. One thing they have not yet learned, obama is not a fair man, he is an evil snake who will bite at the first opportunity.


Reply 17 - Posted by: St. Pitbull, 3/8/2013 5:16:41 PM     (No. 9215572)

I hope the bamster allows more sequestration cuts and keeps up his widdle boy antics of letting them hit "the little people". It is those little people that are the lo-fo voters.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: nonsense, 3/8/2013 6:37:52 PM     (No. 9215684)

Now we find out that the O´s met with the Clintoons for dinner on March 1st. Is that where the idea to meet with Republicans came from?

A Chicago pol who does not know how to govern after 4+ years. A National shame.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 3/8/2013 8:36:05 PM     (No. 9215834)

The pubbies goal is to make sur Obie and the dims are holding the bag when the big aftershock hits, 1 or 2 years from now. Too bad that the pubs weren´t this focused in years past. But, ok, credit to the pubs to get in Obie´s face this time despite efforts by the msm to bury the story.



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