'“Well that’s not hard to figure out,” Gohmert continued. “What a great political ploy. What a great political plan to a year and a half ago come up with the idea, which the White House did, they came up with the idea of this massive sequester, and the biggest loser would be the Defense Department.”
“And then after he gets the cuts to defense that he has been pushing for for years and years, going back to his days as a U.S. senator, he gets to come forward and spend millions and millions of dollars running around on Air Force One condemning Republicans in the House for cutting defense. What a great thing. He cuts defense, which he has been wanting to do for years, forces Republicans to go along with it, and a year and a half later blames Republicans for cutting defense and says, ‘I wouldn’t have done that, but now that defense is cut, now lets talk about restoring some of that money to the ACORN-like groups out there that are going to suffer because they are not going to have money to spend on electing Democrats in the next election if we don’t return the sequester money.’”'
Wow! What an amazing Master Plan, Louie! But you left out the part where the GOP totally fell for it. Not only did they welcome the original sequestration idea when the White House proposed it, but they eagerly voted in favor of it in order to pressure the Dems to accept negotiated spending cuts … which never went through (though were repeatedly offered) because they refused to raise taxes at the same time.
Either Obama is, indeed, a mighty manipulator and Macchiavelian mastermind — or he misjudged GOP intransigence over budget negotiations. Either way, the GOP has nobody to blame but itself for its role in making the sequester an idiotic reality.
Rep. Louie Gohmert: The sequester an Obama conspiracy to fund ‘ACORN-like groups’ | The Raw Story
“We’ll that’s not hard to figure out,” Gohmert continued. “What a great political ploy. What a great political plan to a year and a half ago come up with the idea, which the White House did, they came…