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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts) Tue Mar 5, 2013, 10:45 PM Mar 2013

TYT: Whose Fault Was the Sequester?

""Meet the Press" host David Gregory challenged House Speaker John Boehner over one of Boehner's major talking points on the sequester — that President Barack Obama does not have a plan to replace the forced spending cuts that began kicking in Friday."*

John Boehner said that President Obama and Democrats had no sequester plans since they didn't pass anything in the Senate. No one- not any obstructive Republicans- could have prevented that, right? Did Obama and Boehner fight as hard as they could have? Ben Mankiewicz and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) discuss.

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TYT: Whose Fault Was the Sequester? (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Mar 2013 OP

I think both sides wanted the cuts madville Mar 2013 #1

You can't type out what BCA means? Why waste my time. xtraxritical Mar 2013 #4

Budget Control Act of 2011 madville Mar 2013 #5

The real grand bargain was nineteen50 Mar 2013 #2

The real question is, why Senate Democrats couldn't get it up for filibuster reform????? raindaddy Mar 2013 #3

madville

(7,412 posts)

1. I think both sides wanted the cuts

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Tue Mar 5, 2013, 11:10 PM

Mar 2013

The Democrats are trying to win the PR campaign though. Getting Pentagon cuts like that would not have happened otherwise.

The BCA in 2011 was a fairly even bipartisan bill. Anyone with any common sense knew they would never reach an agreement to prevent this, I think the Democrats were also banking on getting the House back if nothing else.

xtraxritical

(3,576 posts)

4. You can't type out what BCA means? Why waste my time.

Reply to madville (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 12:04 PM

Mar 2013

madville

(7,412 posts)

5. Budget Control Act of 2011

Reply to xtraxritical (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 02:21 PM

Mar 2013

You're Welcome

nineteen50

(1,187 posts)

2. The real grand bargain was

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Tue Mar 5, 2013, 11:42 PM

Mar 2013

to allow the sequester to occur and cover what the corporate controlled Democratic and Republican Parties wanted. They wanted to cut social security, Medicare and public programs while having the sequester cover and allow them at the same time to blame the other party.

raindaddy

(1,370 posts)

3. The real question is, why Senate Democrats couldn't get it up for filibuster reform?????

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Wed Mar 6, 2013, 11:32 AM

Mar 2013

The answer, too many dinocrats in the Democratic party. Too much corporate $$$ in the pockets of the people voted into office to represent our interests. The result, we're left with conveniently neutered Federal government that in no longer responding to the needs of the American people is responding to the desires of a very wealthy minority.

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