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More people need to know the following:
“The automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors...”
The president approved the plan put forth by his employees in direct contrast to his current rhetoric.
It’s one thing for a politician to “massage” the truth ... it happens all the time. But it’s quite another for one to so brazenly repeat an easily disprovable lie.
But, as in the case of President Obama and sequestration, when the fear of being caught in a lie is removed because those charged with being “watchdogs” are active participants, brazenly lying carries no more risk than saying “hello.”
Sequester, automatic across-the-board reductions in the rate of increase in government spending – commonly and lazily called “spending cuts” by the media – was the...
The president approved the plan put forth by his own people and is now lying and saying the "Reblicans did it!" (It's going on 5 yrs now, he can't blame it on Bush anymore.)