Obama Was FOR Sequestration Before He Was AGAINST It

Flashback November 2011, courtesy of Weasel Zippers:

 

“Already some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No,” Mr. Obama said from the White House briefing room Monday evening. “I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending.”

“There will be no easy off ramps on this one,” he added.

 

Yesterday however, Obama claimed that sequestration was never designed to actually happen, and furthermore painted an inaccurate (in the words of the New York Times, "disputed") account of the doom and gloom to be brought down on our heads by those horrible, no good, very bad .... ew-Republicans.

 

Note: As to the lack of much blogging, I have a yucky head-throat-and-chest cold, so I may just "call it a day" already and go back to bed. 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

If you have a taste for the demented and the hysterical, you had to love Obama's remarks. No serious, well-balanced adult would dream of telling the American people that sequestration will lead to out-of-work first-responders and teachers -- when everyone knows that first-responders and teachers are hired, paid, and fired by local governments, not the federal government. The DoD's budget has nothing to do with how many firefighters are employed by my local fire-protection district. What we heard yesterday was a president who sounds more and more as if he believes the only reality is the one inside his head. The performance was a frightening display by a man who seems to be becoming more solipsistic by the day.

[bunuel]

wising you quick healing,Yael.