Republicans rewrite history on the sequester
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-republicans-rewrite-history-on-the-sequester/2013/02/21/3581d05c-7c61-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html?wprss=rss_leftleaning&tid=pp_widgetMy short version of apportioning blame for the current mess is this: The Obama administration is guilty of bad negotiating in pursuit of sensible policy. Congressional Republicans are guilty of exploiting the presidents bad negotiating in pursuit of terrible policy.
Lets quickly dispense with the sideshow of the sequesters parentage. It makes no difference, no matter how many times Republicans decry the presidents sequester.
First, the Obama administration came up with the mechanism precisely because Republicans deemed unacceptable a sequester that included automatic increases in tax revenue.
The underlying concept, from Democrats view, was never to implement the $1.2 trillion through spending cuts alone. Rather, the threat of sequester was to be leverage for a blend of spending cuts and tax increases. Sequester is happening because Republicans in the supercommittee balked at raising adequate revenue.
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still_one
(91,963 posts)Refuses to negotiate squat if it comes from the president
Yes, let's face reality, the Republican Party today is a bunch of racists
Call it what it is
When Obama has taken repuke plans and presented them, they rejected the same plans they earlier approved
When the President tried to negotiate so we would not go over the cliff, the racist repukes rejected it. It was only when Biden presented the same thing that it was accepted
The media is also complicit in this garbage. They try to present a false equivalency, there is no equivalency with racism
It is way past due that the media calls it what it is
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)....it's quite amazing how the Corporate media Echo Chamber faithfully repeats GOP Big Lies.
For your consideration: The Continuing Meme of the Corporate Media Echo-chamber
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)Thank you for this article Ms. Markus. You are showing quite a bit more pluck than I'm used to seeing/hearing.
Keep it up! You might be another Ezra Klein in the making!
..Tell it like it is!!!
.... figured I'd try some psychology on her in the hopes of getting some more gutsy writing out of her. She seems to be so averse to not being the "nice little lady next door, who makes brownies for us."