Just whose idea was sequestration?

[RIKMAN]

So dislike him because he put his patriotism before his party affiliation?

I don't dislike him or like him. I don't care.

[RIKMAN]

Uh Boehner isn't exactly an objective source, that's actually funny. And how do you know Woodward is a Dem?

Boehner isn't an objective source. But both Woodward and JB came to report the same result.

Unlike you, I could care less what party these folks are.

I would sure say that Woodward isn't a republican! Do you really think he would have ever worked for the Post all these years if he was?

[ms maggie]

Boehner isn't an objective source. But both Woodward and JB came to report the same result.

Unlike you, I could care less what party these folks are.

I would sure say that Woodward isn't a republican! Do you really think he would have ever worked for the Post all these years if he was?

So you don't know that W is a Dem. And funny you say you don't care, you brought it up. I posted some pages back Boehner's enthusiastic endorsement of this idea. And Ryans and McCains.

[RIKMAN]

I posted some pages back Boehner's enthusiastic endorsement of this idea. And Ryans and McCains.

Probably the only way they could get spending cuts...not like the Prez would agree to any!

[ms maggie]

Probably the only way they could get spending cuts...not like the Prez would agree to any!

Here's the prob. Obama is saying this is a bad idea, let's not do it. Repubs are saying this is bad idea but let's do it anyway. What kind of message is that? Nuts.

[zenwalk]

Nixon's policies on welfare, the environment, and healthcare were very progressive even by modern standards.

Hagel has a conservative voting record. He just was honest enough to call the Iraq war what it was

There was no "center" to Nixon's domestic policy. He let Ehrlichmann handle domestic policy. Nixon thought of himself as a pragmatist and his domestic policy could be boiled down to appealing to the south. Otherwise, Nixon didn't care about anything except Nixon and his legacy in foreign affairs. Ignoring context and the distance of time he's practically a leftist by today's standards but we weren't such an ignorant mob then as we are today. He simply didn't have the nerve to act like republicans do today.

He was said to have had a "portable center." In this way he is a kindred spirit of many of the posters on this forum who seek safety by morphing their positions when called out like an amoeba changes its shape.

[RIKMAN]

Here's the prob. Obama is saying this is a bad idea, let's not do it. Repubs are saying this is bad idea but let's do it anyway. What kind of message is that? Nuts.

Just depends on your viewpoint- repubs want to reduce government spending...the Prez and Harry Reid don't.

At $16 Trillion and growing...when does the spigot get turned off?

[Terry K]

Who does Obama negotiate with? The GOP is a mess right now.

Boehner can't negotiate because he has no control over House republicans...

You expect Obama to actually negotiate? He does nothing, relies on others and than places blame elsewhere.

See video below of Oama flip flopping.....When he first insisted he would force sequestration and recently when sequestration would lead to the loss of 800,000 jobs. He's a clown without a clue!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/20..._of_my_country

[ms maggie]

We got us an admitted Rushophile!!! A dittohead! Fab! Most have slunk off, good for you! Embrace the hillbilly heroin hero!

[flyboy56]

He knows how to deliver a fear message to the uninformed voters, which are plentiful.

[Cameron]

Just depends on your viewpoint- repubs want to reduce government spending...the Prez and Harry Reid don't.

Hmmmm ---- Only an idiot would believe that.

Rep. K. Michael “Mike” Conaway (R-TX) has been among the most vocal critics of federal spending, claiming that massive cuts would actually create more jobs. But as he publicly pushed to stop “wasteful government spending,” he privately lobbied the National Park Service to turn the childhood home of former President George W. Bush into a National Park. . .

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...hildhood-home/

Conaway's rise through politics was made possible largely thanks to one man: his longtime friend George W. Bush. Conaway served as the chief financial officer of Arbusto/Bush Exploration in the 1980s. Now Conaway is the lawmaker from Texas' 11th district, which includes Midland, Bush's boyhood home.

Conaway, a former CPA, CFO and, thanks to an appointment by then-Gov. Bush, former chairman of Texas's State Board of Accountancy, has brought his financial expertise to Capitol Hill. He has made reducing the national debt one of his primary issues, introducing "No New Programs" legislation that would require funding for new programs come from cuts to old ones. Unlike many Republicans, Conaway has also targeted the military for funding cuts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...QAP_topic.html

[Terry K]

We got us an admitted Rushophile!!! A dittohead! Fab! Most have slunk off, good for you! Embrace the hillbilly heroin hero!

Not an admitted Rushophile but the video proves Obama is a flipper, indecisive or a liar.

[johnpolitics]

I support it. It is a suicide plan and the only way to stop a suicide is to push someone off a building and hope 1/2 way down they realize their error.

[NCBirdfan]

He knows how to deliver a fear message to the uninformed voters, which are plentiful.

I agree. Limbaugh is very good at manipulating half-truths and leading his ditto heads into the bizarre. Limbaugh plays a game by saying the most wackiest thing he can think of to see if his flock will believe him. And Limbaugh, no doubt, is even amazed when they believe every word and then spread it to others.

[flyboy56]

I agree. Limbaugh is very good at manipulating half-truths and leading his ditto heads into the bizarre. Limbaugh plays a game by saying the most wackiest thing he can think of to see if his flock will believe him. And Limbaugh, no doubt, is even amazed when they believe every word and then spread it to others.

Obama is very good at spewing fear when it suits him. Even if this sequester takes place on March 1, Obama can still decide where the cuts will be for each agency, or just let the agency heads make the best decision so as not to disrupt security and safety of people.

[Hexexis]

...makes no sense to me to enact something that was designed to be so God awful that it was never really meant to be enacted. Why both sides agreed to this idiocy in the first place is beyond me.

& Both sides evidently agree to this periodically, like Halley's comet, only more frequently. Maybe you can YouTube ABC Sunday Morning or one of those, from '89 or '90, w/ V.P. Quayle, Sam Donaldson, & Geo. Will talkin' sequestration, continuing resolution, "kick[ing] the can down the road a lil' further." Whatever our elected officials are doing these days, it's decidedly unoriginal.

[RIKMAN]

Hmmmm ---- Only an idiot would believe that.

This idiot knows that!

[RIKMAN]

We got us an admitted Rushophile!!! A dittohead! Fab! Most have slunk off, good for you! Embrace the hillbilly heroin hero!

Oh my gosh...Limbaugh's such a jerk. I thought those dittoheads had been driven into the closet!

[RIKMAN]

Oh my gosh...Limbaugh's such a jerk. I thought those dittoheads had been driven into the closet!

He's almost as big a idiot as Chris Matthews!

[Range Rover]

Barry has the lame street media so deep in his pocket that he can go on tv and lie about the sequester being his idea. Lie, Lie,Lie and gets away with it for the past....well fill in your own timeline.