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lawhawk2/22/2013 12:33:29 pm PST

re: #75 Charles Johnson

The only reason the sequester exists is because of Republican obstructionism. Period. Saying that both parties are equally to blame is specious bullshit.

The budget process has been broken. Sequestration, the debt ceiling and the actual appropriations process are symptoms of that. They’ve come to the forefront since Obama was elected President in 2008. Obstructionism is the GOP name of the game, and everything the GOP has done since then has been to generate political capital from a stalemate.

Even when sequestration is proffered as a way to cut through the stalemate, the GOP thinks they can triangulate the cuts to their advantage - like say in blaming Obama for the cuts.

That’s even as the GOP has long sought many of these across the board cuts for years - just not to the defense budget, which they hold sacrosanct.

There’s no indication that the GOP is willing to compromise to avoid the sequester because that means accepting some form of tax hike/revenue increases (risking the wrath of Grover?). Democrats are holding firm on requiring a balanced approach to bring the budget down, which any reputable economist will tell you is the only way that the deficits will come down because spending cuts alone will not do the trick.

Most Americans do see through this smokescreen, which is why the reputation of the GOP and Congress generally is at an all time low.

The President has no upside to negotiating against himself (like say offering up lower and lower tax revenue options, while the GOP sticks to the 100% cuts approach). The GOP appears that it is willing and capable to run off the sequester cliff, just as surely as they were willing to fling the nation off the debt limit cliff.

Except, each time they do, they expose their perfidy and single-minded intent to damage the President politically, all while screwing the nation and its economic outlook.