Comments | ontd_political: Obama Calls Sequester Cuts 'Dumb' And 'Arbitrary,' Blames GOP For Inflexibility

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omgangiepants March 1 2013, 20:44:52 UTC

GOP in general is dumb and arbitrary.

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kittenmommy March 2 2013, 04:07:46 UTC

Yes.

shadwrayvn March 1 2013, 21:40:52 UTC

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shortsweetcynic March 1 2013, 21:50:51 UTC

i read the headline, and then smooshed the first two tags together into "fuck yeah barack obama".

indeed.

kittenmommy March 2 2013, 04:08:13 UTC

That should be a tag.

alexvdl March 1 2013, 22:02:14 UTC

Which is amusing considering that it was the White House that suggested the sequester in the first place... http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/24/barack-obama/obama-says-congress-owns-sequestration-cuts

beoweasel March 1 2013, 23:00:52 UTC

But the point of the Sequester was to get Congress to get their shit together, which they failed to do.

alexvdl March 1 2013, 23:05:17 UTC

Yup. Which means that the next time the White House tries to bludgeon Congress into doing something, they have an even harder row to hoe.

cellared March 2 2013, 01:58:14 UTC

both parties want austerity and they'll get it. obama's just trying to not take the rap for it.

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tabaqui March 1 2013, 22:02:24 UTC

Oh, but!! It's all the President's fault, he didn't bend over and give the GOP every little thing they wanted, so obviously he was being 'divisive' and 'combative' and 'partisan'.

I am seriously fed up to my back teeth with the GOP's 2-year-old temper-tantrum ways.

maladaptive March 2 2013, 00:32:16 UTC

I've been hearing this, and I'm pretty tired of CBS (which my grandparents watch) giving constant play to Boehner whining that it's up to senate democrats.

And I was like, because there's no republicans in the senate?