Why don’t people take the sequester seriously? How about this:
In its bid to make the sequester as painful as possible, the White House announced Tuesday that it is canceling all visitor tours of the White House “during the popular Spring touring season.” This fits President Obama’s political strategy to punish the eighth graders visiting from Illinois instead of, say, the employees of the Agriculture Department who will attend a California conference sipping “exceptional local wines” and sampling “tasty dishes” prepared by “special guest chefs.”
Anyone doubt there will be plenty of stories like this one in the coming weeks? Pete and other Twitterites might enjoy the Tom Coburn twitter feed as a source of daily outrage about the way the executive branch manages taxpayer money. What do you suppose is worse, the sequester or the political use it put to?
March 6th, 2013 | 9:39 am
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March 6th, 2013 | 10:17 am
And now have hard evidence that the mismanagement of the sequester is intentional:
http://wannabeanglican.blogspot.com/2013/03/smoking-gun-obama-administration.html
March 6th, 2013 | 5:00 pm
It occurs to me that the one thing the Republican’s may have going for them is president Obama’s apparent overconfidence. This episode seems to be a classic unforced error on the part of the administration.
The possible lesson here is that if Repubs can succeed in applying pressure on the president while giving only just enough to make the accusation of obstructionism less feasible, Obama’s overconfidence may be a reliable ally, leading him to further such unforced errors.
March 6th, 2013 | 9:22 pm
I don’t know, Wannabe. I can’t really have a problem cancelling the Blue Angels. What have they got to do with national defense?
But I get the gist, which is that the sequester cuts are played for political points. The Republicans in Congress offered to pass a bill offering the president discretion in making cuts and he says he’ll veto it? Gee Whiz!
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