2016 Postmortem

Sugarcoated

(7,716 posts) Sat Mar 2, 2013, 12:59 AM Mar 2013

As per the salary cuts for Congress

that didn't happen, I have a question. Would that provision have to have been put into the sequester bill when they voted it in? I keep hearing Repub acquaintances using this salary thing to criticize the President, but was that really his fault they weren't included?

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As per the salary cuts for Congress (Original Post) Sugarcoated Mar 2013 OP

It was his fault. They are willing to harm the country Warpy Mar 2013 #1

So the President layed out all the terms of the sequester Sugarcoated Mar 2013 #2

His fault as a Republican. Warpy Mar 2013 #3

Wow, I didn't know that! Sugarcoated Mar 2013 #4

Warpy

(111,141 posts)

1. It was his fault. They are willing to harm the country

Reply to Sugarcoated (Original post)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:22 AM

Mar 2013

but by gum, their nests will stay well feathered.

Besides, they don't work full time, anyway. They've increased their pay while decreasing their hours on the job.

Sugarcoated

(7,716 posts)

2. So the President layed out all the terms of the sequester

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:28 AM

Mar 2013

and the House and Senate had no input?

Warpy

(111,141 posts)

3. His fault as a Republican.

Reply to Sugarcoated (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:31 AM

Mar 2013

Damned pronouns.

The architect of this mess is our old pal Phil Gramm, who even came up with the Orwellian "sequester" name for it.

This belongs 100% to the Republicans, who thought hurting the country would make Obama come to his senses and gut Social Security and Medicare.

Obama, for his part, hopes that if the Republicans don't come to their senses and tax the rich by closing the most egregious loopholes, people are angry enough to throw the whole bunch of them out in 2014.

This is what is at stake and this is who is responsible for it.

It belongs to every asshole who voted for a Republican.

Sugarcoated

(7,716 posts)

4. Wow, I didn't know that!

Reply to Warpy (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:44 AM

Mar 2013

So he enabled the destruction of our economy, then gives it another sucker punch! So many evil players in the conservative cesspool.

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