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In reply to the discussion: Boehner To Obama: No, You Tell Dems To Pass Our Tax Bill [View all]2naSalit
(86,353 posts)is to continue to attempt to make this a one term president. I don't think cheetoman's sobered up enough to realize the election's over and he lost.
Aside from this being a slope rather than a cliff, I think it's only a cliff for those suicide bomber teabaggers, all those components don't HAVE to go into effect immediately on 1/1/13. And if we let sequestration go forth, the DoD will have to go through financial review, which will defund the damned wars and a more sane budget can be worked out for the DoD including more accountability from that end of DC. It doesn't have to hurt the social safety net either as the president also holds the power of executive order to tidy up any messes until the nest Congress can work this stuff out.
If we don't buy their bull and let the sequestration go forth, it will hang the baggers out to dry and we can castrate those weenie wavers with a machete... which is what I'm hoping for. There are so many details to be worked out here that I think it would be unwise to make a deal with this Congress and best to wait until the recently elected and more sane representatives reconfigure our tax structure and budget accountability requirements.