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The White House Must Make Sequestration Cuts as Nasty as Possible

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 1st, 2013 at 12:02 AM  | 

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The White House has an obligation to make sequestration cuts as nasty, painful, and inconvenient as possible.

See, this fight has never been about what to cut, but whether to cut.

If Americans see that Washington can be cut through sequestration without it being painful, Barack Obama loses.

He must make it horrible on the public so that the public doesn’t ever want to cut spending again. It is in his interest to do so.

His fear monger these past few weeks have been predictions of what he knows he will do so he can claim he was right and taxes must be raised while spending must never be cut.

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  • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

    A high stakes game of “chance,” or “chicken?”

  • checkmate2012

    Too bad the prez didn’t boast about the stimulus and it’s great economic effects while he was on the sequestor trial…spending is great, cuts are bad. Oops, the stimulus didn’t work out so good and neither will his constant wolf cries to scare the folks. His blame game is getting lame.
    .
    Perhaps he can take a clue from the Wicked Queen in Snow White:
    Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the biggest spender of them all!

  • lineholder

    I agree. He’s been telling the American people what he intends to do if Repubs do not cave in to his demands on sequestration. It won’t phase him one bit to inflict harm on the American people if it allows him to punish Repubs in the process.
    The narrative will be “well, if Repubs had done what they were supposed to do…for the good of the people”…..blah, blah, blah. Like an abusive husband who uses his child as a way to control the actions of his wife saying to his child, “Well, if your mother had done what she was supposed to do, I wouldn’t have to do this” Implying, of course, that the wife is responsible for his actions rather than himself. That the wife is responsible for the child’s pain rather than the husband. Total misdirect. And total lies, too.

    Then they’ll turn around and use it…”never let a crisis go to waste”.

  • reggie1

    Exactly. It’s not what to cut or how much, but cutting at all. The best example I have seen was in a debate analysis when the Dems spent a week defending Big Bird because Romney questioned PBS funding. That was pennies in the budget going to a perfectly self-sustainable entity that already makes a few hundred million in licensing. They fight cuts for the sake of fighting cuts, because it’s the opposite direction for them, not for defending any particular recipient.

  • reggie1

    Didn’t you get the memo? They’ve learned, and they no longer favor “stimulus”. They want to try something entirely new, never before conceived, called “investing”. Just ignore that the recipients are still federal and state union jobs, and the projects of big donors. Stimulus, Investing, totally different. Now drink this….

  • reggie1

    Reports have already been weakening. One of the most insightful was Walmart’s internal memo leaked within the past couple of weeks indicating one of their worst slowdowns ever.

  • OhioHistorian

    I survived the calamity. It is now March 1, and President Obama was told to “eat his peas”. Guess what, Prez? I already ate mine. There is about 4% more coming out of my check this year (same size as last January) that is going into your economy. You have been told to take about a 2.5% cut and quit whining (put on your man pants is what you need to do). I took 4%, and am still here. I figured out my budget.

  • edintexas

    I’m willing to be surprised and find that Dear Leader doesn’t do exactly this. But it is what I’ve been expecting since some people have been pointing out that the decrease in the expected increased spending – er drastic cuts in the budget will not have much impact outside of DoD.

  • rightlane1111

    Your lead-in to this story on my e-mail wasn’t too far off base. This will be bad and the reason..This is going to a dictatorship…come heck or high water.

    I don’t know whether this was Wilcow or Rush…but the old time Democrats are gone from the Democratic party and the Republics are filled with shills for Obama…so what say you…we the people? You don’t…because there isn’t anymore we the people…there are just rules and regulations which equal …
    Obama’s dynasty.

  • veritaseequitas

    Have no fear, Barack Obama will do whatever it takes to advance his agenda. He is not about to let a little thing like the betterment of America and the American people get in his way.
    Until the media is no longer under the spell of this poseur, he will be able to accomplish the most dastardly deeds and blame them on the GOP.

  • Finrod

    Our message in response to Obama can be to highlight the kinds of things that are still getting funded by the federal government, and contrast that with the things that Obama has cut. Since there’s no end of the ways the government is wasting our money, we can keep these comparisons going all year if need be. On “Fox and Friends” this morning (a show I mostly find useless, but it’s better than the liberal news bits on The Weather Channel since they were bought by NBC) they were doing exactly this.

  • norris

    Wolf !