He said it, not anyone else.

“Already some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No,” Mr. Obama said from the White House briefing room Monday evening. “I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending.”

I’m not sure what all the kerflufle is about Obamas spending cuts. Now that he’s solved that crisis, time for another round of golf.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57329146-503544/obama-pledges-to-veto-effort-to-undo-automatic-spending-cuts/

Let’s have a little history lesson to start the day: In August, 2011, the country and our economy was threatened by GOP intransigence on the debt ceiling. A deal was reached where a Super Committee from both parties would work out a deal of revenue increases and spending cuts. If the Committee could not reach agreement, automatic tax increases and spending cuts would happen in 2012. Well, naturally the Committee failed, then Congress reneged on Bush Tax Cuts and now we are facing massive cuts in spending. The GOP is cleverly calling this “the Obama Sequestration”. That is interesting when Speaker Boehner said he ‘got 98% of what he wanted’ when the deal was reached. The sequestration will hurt the economy but Republicans don’t care because of their fanatical need to see this administration fail. Pretty sorry bunch.

Obama backed a lame horse and now the American public will have to pay. He made the naive mistake that he could emotionally manipulate a dysfunctional congress. Obama is a sucker to place any faith in these clowns. And now his blind, deaf, and dumb faith in Congress is going to affect us all. I won’t go as far as saying he did it intentionally knowing it will fail, but I will say that our Populist Pied Piper President again proves that his big talk can’t compensate for his complete divorce from political reality.

But why should anyone be shocked or surprised. Compromise gets you blackballed by your own party-especially in Congress. Most of these “bright minds” (tongue in cheek) come from secure seat districts. And with low voter turnout, whoever the majority party geographically corronates is the heir apparent to the seat. There is no incentive to be independent. So the more you threaten and blow hot air, the more popular you become within your party. There is no loyalty to the constituents or greater good. There is only loyalty to party.

Perhaps some 11th hour deal will be struck, Obama already got two Tax increases this year, should be get more? or should we cut spending, Nancy Peolsi says we dont have a spending problem, right Nancy

I agree with you on your examples, also, how about we stop throwing Billions away on Solar companies that go bankrupt? Sequester was always intended to apply pressure to both parties. That was the whole point. The goal–according to the same White House Fact Sheet–was to force a deal that included “entitlement and tax reform.” So where are we on that right now?

The GOP compromised on new taxes in December, but we’ve had nothing on entitlements from the President. In fact, immediately after the GOP gave in on taxes, Obama began demanding more “tax reform” in order to avoid the entitlement cuts that were his half of the bargain. From the SOTU last week, “we can’t ask senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthiest and the most powerful.”

Put aside the straw man about seniors shouldering “the entire burden.” The bottom line is simple: Republicans did what they agreed to do to avoid sequester, but the President has tried to weasel his way out of his end of the bargain. If the President is feeling the pressure now, sequester is working as intended.

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/02/19/Sequester-Will-Force-Obama-s-Hand-on-Entitlements-Says-The-White-House

LOL, well, both have good points at times, but we can agree on that,

How naive is our President?

VERY, there is a book called, “The Amateur”

http://www.amazon.com/The-Amateur-Barack-Obama-White/product-reviews/1455134775

Lowered healthcare costs? JB, I BELIEVE you’re being tongue in cheek on that point????