{"id":10014,"date":"2013-02-21T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10014"},"modified":"2013-02-21T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T11:03:00","slug":"boehner-and-the-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/boehner-and-the-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner and the 98%"},"content":{"rendered":"

One normally associates John Boehner, aka Agent Orange, with the 1%.  However, there is now an instance in which the 98% comes into play.  It is happening, because Boehner is trying to blame the Republican sequester on Obama.  Let us not forget that the sequester was written into the law only because Republicans demanded a guarantee of future spending cuts, before they would stop holding the good faith and credit of the US hostage, and Boehner was a key player in getting it passed.  Now he claims he had nothing to do with it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"21Boehner98\"<\/p>\n

With deep sequestration cuts just days away, Congress is on vacation. But they\u2019ve still got plenty of time to play the blame game.<\/p>\n

The latest semantic spin is to call the looming $1.2 trillion in cuts<\/a>, which could throw the whole economy back into recession, \u201cObama\u2019s Sequester.\u201d House Speaker John Boehner indulged this approach half a dozen times in a floor speech<\/a> before he went on break, establishing its place in the talking-points firmament.<\/p>\n

There are a couple problems with this tactic, as my colleague Michael Tomasky pointed out<\/a> Tuesday. Congress passed sequestration before the president signed it, and the whole self-defeating exercise was carried out in response to Tea Party Republicans\u2019 insistence<\/strong> that we play chicken with the debt ceiling<\/a>, which ultimately cost America its AAA credit rating.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing. I happened to come across an old email that throws cold water on House Republicans\u2019 attempts to call this \u201cObama\u2019s Sequester.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a PowerPoint presentation that Boehner\u2019s office developed with the Republican Policy Committee and sent out to the Capitol Hill GOP on July 31, 2011. Intended to explain the outline of the proposed debt deal, the presentation is titled: \u201cTwo Step Approach to Hold President Obama Accountable<\/strong>.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Daily Beast<\/a>><\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell covered this with Krystal Ball and Ari Melber.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

So as much as Agent Orange calls the Republican sequester Obama’s, don\u2019t forget that his fingerprints are all over it.  Here is where the 98% enters the picture.  Since he got 98% of what he wanted, it is 98% his own.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One normally associates John Boehner, aka Agent Orange, with the 1%.  However, there is now an instance in which the 98% comes into play.  It is happening, because Boehner is trying to blame the Republican sequester on Obama.  Let us not forget that the sequester was written into the law only because Republicans demanded a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}