#1 | Posted by Buffalo_Bob at 2013-02-21 09:17 PM | Reply

Other then BBs off-thread remarks, I agree with Rush's specific comments on why he's ashamed of the U.S.

#9 | Posted by Buffalo_Bob at 2013-02-21 09:34 PM | Reply

Bob, when you do the math, there's no reason for a high level of pain/panic. Obama uses his typical Saul Alinsky technique of scare tactics and it's growing old.

Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if Obama is playing to his base once again so he has no culpability when it happens----even though he knows his verbal position is again the usual BS. He proposed the sequester and he signed it. As Howard Dean has said; "Let It Happen".

Amen, Matsop. When will the mainstream press begin to make THAT a headline?

#17 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-02-21 09:47 PM | Reply |

Never, they lost any integrity they had years ago and they didn't have much back then either.

Senate Republicans along with influential conservative commentators are proposing to provide federal agency heads the flexibility they currently lack to allocate the sequester's cuts at their discretion.

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#23 | Posted by paneocon at 2013-02-21 09:58 PM | Reply

Now this makes some sense. In private industry, the best formula was to tell department heads the % of cuts they had to endure and they were given the discretion since they knew what was priority and what wasn't.

Anything Obama does is wrong as far as you are concerned. I am quite sure that if Obama issued an executive order as you suggest, you would be in here telling us all what a poor decision he made for America.

#26 | Posted by Buffalo_Bob at 2013-02-21 10:26 PM | Reply

Bob, the biggest problem I've had with Obama is his divisiveness,arrogance, and lack of early bi-partisanship. His Obamacare is falling apart and he threw money to his supporters that put us in a larger fiscal hole. Now he's got his sorry rearend in a ringer and ought to have it kicked. But count on the rethugs (for the good of the country) to save him. The only problem is he won't appreciate it since he has no shame.

Sounds like you are talking about Bush. Exactly the things Bush did.

#29 | Posted by Buffalo_Bob at 2013-02-21 10:39 PM | Reply |

I have no special love for Bush either. Both he and Obama are at the beck and call of the establishment, the monied (especially the bankers) and the powerful. Both grate on me since they don't give a hoot about the average family trying to make ends meet. Both disgust me. But our fiscal dilemma and deteriorating global financial position will put an end to a lot of the big monied interests but how it will impact the average family is anyone's guess. We've wasted the best years America had for the few and it was patently thievery.