Submitted by: Lady E
Obama can't bully his way out of this one
By Bob Tyrrell
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | I do not know about you, but to me this sequestration imbroglio is getting interesting. Last week, I wrote of my surprise that a basic untruth was being repeated over and over again by the White House, to wit, that the Republicans were responsible for the monstrosity of sequestration. I wrote that, as I recalled it, sequestration was an idea introduced by the White House to coax the Republicans and the Democrats into a deal in the summer of 2011 to raise the ceiling on the national debt. Remember that deal? And another thing, there would be no tax increase. President Barack Obama himself endorsed the 2011 idea of sequestration before claiming in his third debate with Mitt Romney that, "The sequester is not something that I proposed." And he went on, "It is something that the Congress proposed." Really?
Recently, most news stories that I read laid sequestration to the White House as part of the 2011 debt ceiling deal. Then Bob Woodward weighed in and made it obvious. He had written a book about the deal, and if he remained silent he would have appeared to have lied in his book. Said Woodward, "My extensive reporting for my book, 'The Price of Politics,' shows the automatic spending cuts [sequestration] were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of [Jack] Lew [at the time White House chief of staff and now secretary of the treasury] and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors ... " "Obama," Woodward added, "personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid." And Woodward gets technical, "They did it at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved."
