Obama: Liar, Liar Pants On Fire
Barack Hussein Obama PROPOSED the sequester he now condemns.
“The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said
during the debate in Boca Raton, Fla. “It is something that Congress has
proposed. It will not happen.”
That directly contradicts a 2012 book from investigative journalist
Bob Woodward — the Washington Post editor who, with Carl Bernstein, took
down President Richard Nixon over the 1970s-era Watergate scandal.
“Then-OMB Director Jack Lew, now the White House chief of staff, and
White House Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors pitched the idea to
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Woodward writes,” according
to a Sept. 7 story appearing on the Politico website.
“Under the deal, which Republicans accepted after several rounds of
bargaining, the federal debt ceiling was raised — staving off a
potential financial crisis.”
Sequestration arises from the Budget Control Act that the
debt-reduction super committee passed last year. The super committee’s
deficit reduction plan, which Obama signed into law, put in place a
trigger that will automatically make steep cuts to the Department of
Defense budget — about $110 billion — on Jan. 2 if no alternative plan
is adopted to continue financing the federal government moving forward.
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