The sequester was obviously going to happen

[olivelove]

At least to me. Republicans cannot outwardly agree to decrease military expenditures. They are too invested in the MIC through contractors contributions and just plain hawkishness. Their voters love big things that go boom over dark peoples heads.

So having the reductions be related to something other than them agreeing to it was as good as it gets for the republicans. Deep down they needed this badly.

That the Democrats didn't see this coming is disturbing.

[winter is coming]

1. What makes you think they didn't see it coming? n/t

[olivelove]

2. I guess

because the pundits are saying they expected a deal.

[winter is coming]

3. Someone's either stupid or lying. A blind weasel could have predicted

we'd run full-speed into the sequester.

[mick063]

4. Here is what really pisses me off about the sequester

And the Democrats are falling right in line to piss me off further.


They put in these "across the board " cuts and then fund pet projects piece meal. It started with the FAA. Next it will be the military.

I could swallow the sequester if it was painful enough, across the board, so that it would be generally disliked by everyone. Every time Congress appropriates funds (and the President approves those funds), piece meal, for some constituency, it removes another segment of angry folks. They do this enough and the sequester will become two things:

1) Something very similar to a Paul Ryan plan.

2) Something acceptable to enough people that it can be described by media pundits as "partially" disliked instead of universally disliked.


This FAA thing pisses me off to no end because it is just the start. This was so very predictable and not only was President Obama duped, but the entire group of Democrats in Congress as well. Or perhaps it was privately desired by the 1% puppets.

Really.....it is time to start knocking off the dumb shits in the primaries, teabilly style.

[olivelove]

6. They had to un furlough the controllers

1 plane crash and they'd all look like shit.

[L0oniX]

5. Sequester is just their politically correct word for austerity.

[Laelth]

7. Welcome to DU.

It appears to me that the sequester is not happening at all. What's happening is that expenditures conservatives like (military, FAA) are being preserved at all costs, whereas expenditures that liberals like are under the axe. It's a complete disaster, as far as I am concerned, and I place the blame for this disaster squarely on the shoulders of the President.

-Laelth

[olivelove]

8. Fiscally, the president

is a republican. Socially he's a moderate liberal.

[Recursion]

9. The Pentagon runs out of frontloaded cash at the end of the quarter, give or take

At that point a lot of contractor-happy Republicans will really start howling.