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Originally Posted by janmcn
Wasn't it congress that forced the sequestration in return for passing the extension of the Bush tax cuts? Of course they can't remedy that since they've all left town and won't return until September. President Obama is the only one left in Washington, and he can't negotiate with himself.
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Totally Obama on the sequestration and he is playing politics with it as we speak....read the attached..he has now upset even the democrats with his antics...
Strassel: The Obama Jobs Sequester - WSJ.com
From that link...
"When Barack Obama has lost even liberal Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, the White House has a problem. In Washington, that problem is known as the "sequester." In the rest of the country, it's becoming known as a jobs disaster.
Jobs, and his own re-election, were on Mr. Brown's tortured mind this week, when he publicly called on the president to do something about Defense Department cuts that threaten to shutter his state's Mansfield Lahm Air National Guard Base—and with it, 1,000 jobs. The cuts might be "penny wise," griped the senator, but they were "pound foolish."
That was the rebuke that greeted Mr. Obama as he landed in Mansfield for a campaign stop. An editorial in the Mansfield News Journal demanded that the president "explain to the people of Mansfield why the U.S. government wants to eliminate" their jobs and base"