The PowerPoint That Proves It’s Not Obama’s Sequester After All [View all]

[TomCADem]

Source: Daily Beast

It’s a PowerPoint presentation that Boehner’s office developed with the Republican Policy Committee and sent out to the Capitol Hill GOP on July 31, 2011. Intended to explain the outline of the proposed debt deal, the presentation is titled: “Two Step Approach to Hold President Obama Accountable.”

It’s essentially an internal sales document from the old dealmaker Boehner to his unruly and often unreasonable Tea Party cohort. But it’s clear as day in the presentation that “sequestration” was considered a cudgel to guarantee a reduction in federal spending—the conservatives’ necessary condition for not having America default on its obligations.

The presentation lays out the deal in clear terms, describing the spending backstop as “automatic across-the-board cuts (‘sequestration’). Same mechanism used in 1997 Balanced Budget Agreement.”

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And that’s pretty much exactly what’s scheduled to start happening on March 1. Democrats could just as easily spin this as “Boehner’s Sequester” or “Cantor’s Sequester” and offer indelible digital evidence to back up their claim.

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Here is nice bit evidence that has come out that blows a hole in the Republican/Fox News talking point of trying to blame the sequester on President Obama. Of course, this is in addition to video clips showing Cantor and Boehner bragging about the passage of the sequester. The amazing thing is that the mainstream media does not immediately slap down Republicans for pushing this demonstrably false talking point that ignores the role of Republicans of putting the Nation on the verge of default as leverage for the sequester.