Automatic Budget Cuts Now Spook Some Key Republicans (Obama to be scapegoated)...

[Indi Guy]

Source: SEATTLE TIMES

Rep. John Boehner, once "pretty happy" with the cuts, now calls them a threat.
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WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders are backing away from a trigger system of forced spending cuts that they hailed 13 months ago as a herald of fiscal discipline and for which GOP lawmakers voted by large margins.

With the forced cuts — called sequestration on Capitol Hill — scheduled by law to take effect Jan. 2 and no deal in sight to replace them, the Republicans say the reductions could harm the military, and they're blaming President Obama.

Obama, in turn, is accusing the Republicans of flip-flopping by rejecting the strong budget controls they once championed...

Read more: http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019235215_fiscalcliff23.html

[a geek named Bob]

1. AHH! AHH! that one is making us have to do work!

[Downwinder]

2. Don't blame Obama, blame Ryan.

[Overseas]

3. They're just desperate for reasons to give voters to save Republican seats. After they have failed

the American people by putting politics ahead of the needs of our country and obstructing so many Democratic bills to put our people back to work.

[bluestateguy]

4. Nothing from the Pentagon is being "cut"

It is only a "cut" for people using inside the Beltway Washington math.

[elbloggoZY27]

5. Just The GOP

The GOP is guilty for this whole mess in Congress. They cannot compromise on anything productive. The truth is that Congress has a very low popularity due to their say no to anything the President proposed. All the GOP has to do is look into a mirror.

[shraby]

6. Didn't Boehner say they got 98% of what they wanted??

[Angry Dragon]

7. yes he did and that is 'weeping boner'

[Indi Guy]

8. He sure did...

From the OP article:

..."This report confirms that the president's 'sequester' is a serious threat to our national security and must be replaced," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, responded.

Boehner's stance was at odds with his celebratory pose after Obama signed the 2011 Budget Control Act on Aug. 2, 2011, that contained $1 trillion in defense cuts over a decade and threatened hundreds of billions more through forced reductions.

"I got 98 percent of what I wanted," Boehner said then. "I'm pretty happy."

[beac]

9. Hope DNC is readying both clips to use in an ad. n/t

[Indi Guy]

10. Yeah, and the ad should go something like this...

[font size="3" color=darkblue] "I was for The Budget Control Act, before I was against it!"[/font]

[Trajan]

11. Obama is going to be scapegoated ?

When did they STOP scapegoating him ?

When did they STOP scapegoating ANY Democrat ?

[MADem]

12. Bonehead shouldn't have made devil's bargains in the first place.

What he should have done is loan rMoney some of his "man tan." He's got a better quality of Orange than the QT shit Mitt uses....