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On the one hand I understand the Republican effort to appear reasonable to the very end. On the other hand reasonable in this case is the opposite of the proper prescription. Congress needs to signal a mew game of bareknuckled fisticuffs with the administration. They need to use the power of the purse to compel the president to administer the government legislated by congress and not a government formulated by executive action. The sequester is a first step.
Notwithstanding hysterical rhetoric from the White House, the bureaucracies, and the various pro-spending lobbies in Washington, the sequester does not mean “vicious” or “draconian” spending cuts.
I wish that was the case.
All it does is restrain spending so that it grows by $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years rather...
WELL SAID !!
Only by drastically diminishing the federal power base can Republicans effect a positive change in the character of the USA.
Which is why they will never do it.