John Boehner Uses Pathetic Twitter Campaign to Blame Obama for Sequester

And this from the Worst Speaker Ever

The repugicans are trying to blame President Obama for the automatic spending cuts that will kick in via the sequester. They’ve laid the groundwork for this little con as they always do, by repeating it ad nauseam as the premise for their further accusations.
They’ve reached so far into their blame game that they’re quoting Bob Woodward.
The National Review reported that John Boehner took a picture of text from Woodward’s book, The Price of Politics, in which Woodward wrote that then-White House chief of staff Jack Lew introduced the idea of sequestration into the debt-ceiling negotiations. Boehner passed this picture around, and even urged his staffers to replace their avatars with it. Boehner’s even pushing the hashtag “#obamaquester” in hopes of forcing the President to carry the weight of the Republicans’ failure.
If it were true that sequester was Obama’s fault, Boehner wouldn’t have to go to such lengths; however, when the record defies your version of reality, great efforts must be made.
The national repugican cabal coven issued a statement saying, “Obama owns the sequester. He proposed it. He threatened to veto (any bill) getting rid of it.”
But see, the problem is that we never would have needed the sequester if the Republicans hadn’t decided to hold the country’s economy hostage by refusing to do the most basic task of raising the debt ceiling in order to pay off the things they already voted into existence.
Here’s a refresher on what actually happened. After creating the debt ceiling disaster for no reason other than his inability to control the tea party caucus, Boehner admits to walking away from the Grand Bargain with the President.
On August 2, 2011, Congress passed the Budget Control Act of 2011, which provided for The Super Committee. If the Super Committee failed to create legislation to address the cuts originally demanded by the repugicans, the sequester would kick in. The Super Committee ended up failing, and on January 2, 2013, the automatic cuts (“sequestrations”) were supposed to kick in. Those cuts are also known as the fiscal cliff that kept some of us up on New Years Eve waiting for the 2 AM Senate vote and then 11 AM House vote to avert it.
On August 1, 2011 Speaker Boehner told CBS news that he walked away from the Grand Bargain, the President negotiated in good faith, and repugicans got 98% of what they wanted with the Budget Control Act which included the built in sequester.
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