All the Republicans had to do to prevent their scandalous involvement in tanking the economy again was to act responsibly and make appropriate cuts to budgets that were outdated and useless. Oh. But, wait. Those outdated and useless cuts would throw some of the most fond Republican pork barrel spending out of the budget.
Well, they couldn't do that. So they had to blame the evil wizard in the White House. Whom next will end up in the caldron of Democratic victories?
Bob Woodward Trolls The World
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Posted Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at 8:04 AM
Bob Woodward, (click here) the legendary Watergate reporter turned reliable chronicler of insider accounts of political events, has made a series of bizarre assertions over the past week.
It started with Woodward's odd weekend assertion that the White House is trying "to move the goalposts" by replacing sequestration with a deficit reduction package that includes tax hikes. The idea of sequestration was always that it was something elected officials were going to want to replace with alternative deficit reduction. Republicans have been trying tio replace it with a package of cuts targeted at income support programs for the poor. Obama's been trying to replace it with a mixture of spending cuts and tax hikes. Either everyone's moving the goalposts (which I think is tendentious but even-handed) or no one is moving them. But it really intensified Wednesday morning when Woodward went on Morning Joe to suggest it's crazy of Obama to be applying the law as written to the military, instead of simply ignoring it.
Things moved into the absurd last night when it was revealed that National Economic Council director Gene Sperling had concluded an email disagreement with Woodward with the observation that in Sperling's view Woodward would come to regret clinging so tenaciously to an untenable position.
