Well, the austerity scam worked. Now on to education.

[Drunken Irishman]

40. A lot of rambling and not much said...

It's typical of the Obama haters - both on the left and the right. It's remarkable how the left and the right use the same outline when it comes to attacking the President. But what's even more remarkable is that nowhere in your long-winded rant did you ever say anything of substance that points to why Obama would want to the sequester knowing full well it could wreck the economic recovery he staked his WHOLE LEGACY ON. We're not talking Social Security, so, I don't even see why that's in your bluster - we're talking the sequester. Something you believe Obama purposely set up so that it could go off in his second term and undo all the economic progress he spent four years making. Don't you see the absolute absurdity in that?

OBAMA GAINS NOTHING if the economy goes into a recession. Are you that dense to not see this? His president is absolutely tied to the stability of the economy. If we plunge back into a recession, if these cuts are as dire as some on DU say they are (and an extension, the Prez), everything he wants to do in his second term - from gun control to immigration reform - will be held hostage by it. It will wreck his legacy and kill any potential mandate he had coming out of the election. What you blathered on about does not change that,. Obama has as much invested in the economy rebounding as the average worker because it's his whole presidency. He knows he has a small window of opportunity to pass anything of substance and that window absolutely closes the second the economy plunges into a recession because it will be HIS ass who gets the blame - not Boehner ... not the GOP - but the President. Why? Because it's always the President who gets the blame when the economy goes south - just ask Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

But I'm to believe that is something he actively wants? Give me a break. Obama isn't nearly as stupid or evil as you make him out to be.