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Topic: Bob Woodward: Obama 'mistaken' on sequester |
Bob Woodward: Obama 'mistaken' on sequester
Politico, by Leigh Munsil
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Posted By:DW626, 10/23/2012 10:28:31 PM
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| Bob Woodward says President Barack Obama got some of his facts wrong on sequester at Monday night’s debate. Woodward’s book, “The Price of Politics,” has been the go-to fact check source for the president’s answer, in which he claimed the idea of using deep, automatic, across-the-board domestic and defense spending cuts to force Congress to address the nation’s burgeoning federal deficit originated from Congress, not from the White House. “What the president said is not correct,” Woodward told POLITICO Tuesday. “He’s mistaken. And it’s refuted by the people who work for him.”
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Comments: Hey Bob, Barky wasn't mistaken...he lied, he always lies.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Griz70, 10/23/2012 10:37:07 PM (No. 8956809)
A lie is not a mistake. It is calculated.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
L.A. Guy, 10/23/2012 10:54:10 PM (No. 8956835)
It was his plan, he signed it into law. He lied.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bighambone, 10/23/2012 11:03:48 PM (No. 8956851)
The coming sequester is so important that you would think that the USA President would be on top of it like a cat on a mouse and there would be no way that he would mis-characterize it. How can a President who signed such a sequester into law say that it won't happen, especially since he has said numerous times that he would veto any attempt by the Congress to repeal the sequester, that is required by that law to go into effect in January, 2013?
Obama was just doing what he always does, blame someone else, in this instance the US Congress, even though he signed the sequester into law.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 10/23/2012 11:08:32 PM (No. 8956859)
Mr hussein obama has been curiously detached from his job as president from his first day in office. And like alot of compulsive liars, he doesn't know what he said, or did, on almost anything in his life.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 10/23/2012 11:12:22 PM (No. 8956864)
Why is Zippy always 'mistaken' and everyone else is a liar ?
They can have ten more debates, but we made up our minds long ago.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ocjim, 10/23/2012 11:18:53 PM (No. 8956875)
That's why Romney didn't want to get into it with Obama on Benghazi. After OBama's 2nd Debate bold lie about having called Benghazi ''terrorism'' the very next day in Rose Garden speech, Romney knew that Obama would just make stuff up to win any Benghazi argument.
Rewatch the 3rd debate and you'll see Romney carefully choosing and setting up his attacks knowing he's dealing with a shameless liar. Romney's ''apology tour'' exchange setup was classic and Barry stepped right into it with Romney ready with abundant solid counter evidence to Barry's lame ''Ask any reporter?''
Well done, Governor.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bla Bla, 10/23/2012 11:22:55 PM (No. 8956879)
Valerie Garret & O's Communist handlers probably know more about it than he does. He probably IS mistaken. The tool. Just leave him alone & let him work on his golf score.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird, 10/24/2012 12:04:17 AM (No. 8956917)
From "House Report 112-421 - CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET-- FISCAL YEAR 2013", "Reprioritizing Sequester Savings"
Last November, the JSCDR announced that it could not reach agreement on a deficit-reduction bill by the statutorily required deadline, thus triggering the sequester. Congress is now operating in a post-sequester world one in which discretionary spending for fiscal year 2013 is capped at $949 billion, and defense spending will be cut by $55 billion, or 10 percent, in January 2013 unless Congress acts to replace this sequester by reprioritizing the savings.
These cuts would be devastating to America's defense capabilities. Leaders of both parties agree that sequester savings should be reprioritized. On August 4, 2011, then-director of the Office of Management and Budget (now White House Chief of Staff) Jack Lew wrote that the sequester was not intended to be implemented: `Make no mistake: the sequester is not meant to be policy. Rather, it is meant to be an unpalatable option that all parties want to avoid.' 13 ..... After the JSCDR's failure, the President issued a veto threat against legislation overturning the sequester unless offset. The President called on Congress to develop an alternative:
The only way these spending cuts will not take place is if Congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That's exactly what they need to do. That's the job they promised to do. And they've still got a year to figure it out. 14
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112gbc6D&r_n=hr421.112&dbname=cp112&&sel=TOC_232027&
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kurto, 10/24/2012 1:33:59 AM (No. 8957002)
A lying twofer. It was his idea, not Congress. He said it will not happen, but the 0-team hacks say he meant it 'should not' happen.
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