In this fiscal cliff debacle, Obama will ultimately be responsible for the situation

Posted by HeuristicGratis at 08:54 AM | 0 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

I take form comments like this that the Republicans are really sweating the present Sequester situation in Congress.

For one thing, its being described as a "debacle". In other words, Republicans really do suspect that someone is going to get hurt after next week. Hurt badly.

For another thing, Republicans are trying to make sure that Obama takes the fall for the "debacle", completely regardless of their own role in it.

All this is going to be a bit hard to do, without some major league lying in future, given that as recently as this morning I've been seeing Republicans assert that the Sequester is no big deal and nothing horrible will happen because of it.

Of course, there are those Republicans who are glad to say that they hope the Sequester just smashes everything to hell. The theory seems to be that a burned house is better than the house we have, and that they will get the opportunity to erect a structure more to their liking later upon the ruins.

Fat chance. They're going to experience an ancient American tradition, tar-and-feathering.

#3 | Posted by eberly at 2013

If there were no downside to the Sequester, there would be no controversy to the Sequester.

This sequester thing reminds me of what happens when someone gets attacked by a shark at a public beach. Almost everyone stands around watching the poor guy scream. But almost invariably, one or two people will risk everything they have to jump into the water and pull the body from the shark's jaws.

This is the thesis of this article. That Obama should be that one person; be the better person. Perhaps he should. But I'm afraid that would define everyone who stayed on the beach as being the worst of cowards.

I'm thinking that Mr. Boehner and the rest of the Vandals are betting on Obama's better nature coming to the rescue of the country here. They sure as hell won't rescue anyone.

As for the charge of cowardice? Real cowards don't care about such things.

you're deathly afraid of this thing, Zed. you are.

#9 | Posted by eberly at 2013-02

I'm deathly afraid of very little, save for spiders. Not much need for fear. If the worst happens I'm taken care of.

Oh, something that does make me a little fearful? John Boehner lying like a Big Dog about his own recent attitudes concerning the Sequester. Mitt Romney had more effect on the Republican Party than I thought.

you're afraid of a lot, Zed. You're posts prove it.

#14 | Posted by eberly at 2013

I'm afraid of paper cuts. Have I ever posted about that?

I'm deathly afraid of very little, save for spiders and Scott Walker.
#11 | Posted by Zed

#13 | Posted by wisgod at 2013-02

Oh, I just found Scott offensive. I'd have to use a Kleenex in order to dispose of a dead spider; a dead Scott I could actually touch.

did you have a problem with sequestration before last week or after it?

#27 | Posted by Axiom at 2013-02-21 01

I had a problem with it at the moment of its birth. I had a problem with super-committee, so-called, at the moment of its birth. That being said, I never would have thought that allegedly mature people would in the end be this crazy.

Yeah, Obama doesn't take vacations, right. Keep up that partisan B.S. danni and we all will be eating onion and cucumber sandwiches on ship filled with sewage.

#26 | Posted by danv at 2013-02-21 01:32 PM

The issue is vacations? I'd have thought the issue is the timing of vacations. Not that timing could possibly ever communicate anything concerning personal attitude.

And because the Republicans have shot themselves in the foot.

#32 | Posted by donnerboy at 2013

That can happen in checkers.

The republicans are showing they can make cuts

#39 | Posted by moneywar at

Irrationally make cuts, sure. But the real fun is going to be how they deal with the howls from their own Districts, once the layoffs begin.

Then he (Obama) THREATENED the American people that they and their kids would be poisoned, not get educated, protected, or be able to make the flight.

#35 | Posted by T_Man at

With GDP reduced by an estimated half-percent because of the Kamikaze Sequester, some people are bound to be hurt.

Obama's just reminding Republicans of the ouch factor in their behavior. Which he needs to do. Not that Republicans are in tune with their inner ouch at the moment, but just wait.

Just free loading on the government dime without having to work.

#45 | Posted by moneywar at 2013-02-21 04:33 PMFlag: (Choose)
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My, my. So that's how you see the world.

If I made you cut 2.5% out of your budget, would you starve or cut out or reduce your cable service? Maybe don't eat out as much? Again, Obama is threating the American people while trying to scare them as if the world will end.

#55 | Posted by T_Man at 2013-02-21 09

Sure, as an example I would not eat out as much, or perhaps at all.

I shouldn't have to tell you that if that's multiplied by a few million, more than a few businesses related to the restaurant service and vegetable produce and cattle raising industries will have to close. People who were making a profit or merely earning a wage no longer will.

The problem with the modern Republican Party is that they think that people aren't really human beings, but rather a form of pet that should always have to exist on their terms.

I could survive 2.5% out of my budget, though I would not like that at all. However, I am close enough to my roots to recall when a 2.5% in my family budget would be a pure and unmitigated disaster.

The Republican Party needs to get a clue or it needs to die. Its in the way, ad if it conhtinue so someone will take it to the vet to be put to sleep.

"I am close enough to my roots to recall when a 2.5% reduction in my family budget would be a pure and unmitigated disaster".

I'm edging closer to the place where I think that no man or woman should be president without having honorably completed some form of national service.

I'm already to the place where I think no one should be president without having, at some point in their life, had to chose between buying groceries or gasoline.