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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, are we pretty much stuck with the sequester until we take the House back?
It's pretty clear at this point that Boehner drank Obama's milkshake on the sequester. Obama gave away $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, and got absolutely nothing in return for it. When Boehner said he got 98% of what he wanted, that was an understatement.
And there's no way to reverse it unless the House agrees to it. And that ain't happening. Obama committed a blunder of historic proportions when he assumed that the Republicans would care about Defense spending. The Teahadis, unlike the Neocons, are true nihilists. They value nothing.
At most, it seems we're left to try to rearrange which crumbs are available for which starving programs. There is no extra bread coming.
It's great that there won't be any raids on Social Security and Medicare for the next 18 months or so, but the slashing of discretionary domestic problems is still horribly painful austerity that will weaken the recovery.
Am I wrong?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Omnith
(171 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)But, who knows?
-Laelth