◼ "That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time.” - The Blaze
Bob Woodward, who, along with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein, is credited with bringing down Richard Nixon, took his fight with the Obama administration over its handling of sequester (i.e. automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect March 1) to MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” accusing the president of acting with a “kind of madness.”
“I think peoples’ heads are about to explode about all of this, you know, what the hell is going on here?” Woodward said Wednesday. “I’m not sure the White House understands exactly what happened in all of these negotiation at the end of 2011 with the sequester and the super committee, because they were really on the sidelines.”
He continued, turning his attention to the White House’s recent claim that spending cuts would prohibit it from deploying aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf.
“Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying ‘Oh, by the way, I can’t do this because of some budget document?’” Woodward said.
◼ Woodward: Obama Exhibiting 'A Kind of Madness I Haven't Seen in a Long Time’ - Noel Sheppard/Newsbusters
◼ Zing! Brit Hume slams ‘sky-is-falling’ fear-monger Obama; ‘Is he a great man or what?’ - Twitchy
It turns out our sky-is-falling president has much more flexibility in imposing the sequester than he is admitting. online.wsj.com/article/SB1000…
— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 27, 2013
The president is now seeking to make as painful as possible a set of budget cuts he proposed and signed into law. Is he a great man or what?
— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 25, 2013
◼ The Sequester Revelation: Obama has the legal power to avoid spending-cut damage. - Wall Street Journal
And when the Republicans opened the seventh seal of the sequester, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black and the stars fell unto the Earth; and our nation's ability to forecast severe weather, such as drought events, hurricanes and tornados, was seriously undermined. Lo, and the children were not vaccinated, and all the beasts starved in the zoos, and the planes were grounded.
Or so President Obama and his Cabinet prophets have been preaching ahead of the automatic budget cuts due to begin Friday. The bit about the weather is a real quote from the White House budget director.
But if any of these cataclysms do come to pass, then they will be mostly Mr. Obama's own creation. The truth is that the sequester already gives the White House the legal flexibility to avoid doom, if a 5% cut to programs that have increased more than 17% on average over the Obama Presidency counts as doom....
Neither the legal details of the sequester nor the practical work of reforming government are as interesting to the media as Mr. Obama's invocations of plagues and pestilence. The real revelation is that if the world does end, it will be Mr. Obama's choice.
