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Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 | 2:01 a.m.
The standoff over the package of budget cuts known as “the sequester” is the dumbest, most self-defeating fight between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress since ... let’s see, since the last dumb, self-defeating fight less than two months ago. Obama is winning this showdown, but only in a relative sense. The truth is that everybody loses — Republicans a little more, Democrats a little less. And the American people, who have a right to expect adult behavior from their elected officials, will inevitably be the biggest losers of all. It’s hard to believe, but this is the way ...
Eugene Robinson is a columnist for the Washington Post.
What Robinson FAILED TO MENTION
more money will be spent this year 2013 then in 2012 - even with the OBAMA SEQUESTER
Perhaps Mr. Robinson this current President and you will learn what all students already know. The President of the US shares the reins of governance with two other co-equal branches.
CarmineD
Obama wants to get out of his own sequester deal by calling for more tax revenue by taking your deductions (charity and home interest) away?
Pure hypocrisy. Obama said in November 2011 "Some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple No....I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts. There will be no easy off ramp"
It all boils down to the fact that Caribou Barbie was actually more qualified than Barack Obama regardless of what the simpletons in the media spew. They just keep digging themselves into a deeper more precarious situation as the truth rears it's dawning realities.