Bob Woodward Tells The Tale: The Sequester Fiasco Is An Obama Creation, And Himself Is A Bald-faced Liar About It

Can't make this stuff up, ya'll....

Massah Obama has got Hisself one ginormous problem: He's been grandstanding about how dem Wascawy Wepubwikans iz gunna' throw all those poor police, firefighters, Department of Defense, air traffic controllers and NEA teachers under the bus on March 1st, because they created and insisted upon a budget sequester to take place if no agreement could be reached on spending reductions.

He lined up all those police and firefighters and proclaimed how they would be put out on the streets if the Wascawy Wepubwikans didn't give him yet one more tax increase. Dem and their horrible cruel sequester, cutting three whole percent from discretionary spending--eighty-five billion dollars.

Oh, the humanity!!

Turns out, it's all a lie, and Bob Woodward, he-who-brought-down-Richard-Nixon, has called Obama on it.

The finger-pointing began during the third presidential debate last fall, on Oct. 22, when President Obama blamed Congress. “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”

The White House chief of staff at the time, Jack Lew, who had been budget director during the negotiations that set up the sequester in 2011, backed up the president two days later.
“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”

The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.

Woodward is the soul of credibility, an American living legend. He has made his career reporting events truthfully, and is not Obama's loyal hack, as so many of his colleagues have proven to be.

Massah Obama has got Hisself one ginormous problem!

The Sequester will occur. The House Republicans have let the Senate know that they will not lift a finger until the Senate votes on a budget, for the first time since Massah Obama took office.

There will be disruptions, engineered of course to create maximum pain, and these have already been planned carefully for the greatest political effect--the plan being to create chaos and tar the Republicans.

Not even the Washington Post, the Democrats personal handmaiden, is buying it.

It will not take too long for the disruptions to be laid at the feet of Himself, 'cuz he is, after all, The President of the United States. He spent his adult life working to get this job, and now, perhaps for the first time, he will be forced to actually manage his way out of the mess he's created.

Should be interesting to watch.