Obama, Republicans blame each other over budget crisis

More proof the party of the 'no' hasn't learned a single thing from the shellacking they took last year and rather than move forward want to stick with their policy of doing nothing and scuttling any and every attempt at the nation's progress. I'm only suprized they didn't demand to know, in talking about economy, more about the Benghazi attack.

Interesting, would be to see how the military cuts affect war-mongering efforts on behalf of Israel. Republicans seem intent on gutting the Federal system, prior to losing it, just as South Africa did, prior to 'going black'. This may backfire, however, in the event Obama/someone decides to use the military to beef-up defunded domestic projects (infrastructure, policing, etc.), while simply dropping all other foreign commitments. So, instead of weakening the bigbad non-white Federal government, we end up with EXPANDED Federal powers. In any case, this wont turnout good for anyone (except for those us living abroad, with short dollar positions!)

" More proof the party of the 'no' hasn't learned a single thing from the shellacking they took last year…"

When was there any "shellacking"? The balance in Congress is essentially unchanged. The incumbent won the White House to a limp challenger. By the ongoing gridlock, that's status quo. The neocon Rove tried to install an unpopular flip-flopper who never warmed up the conservative base and still gave BHO a run for the money.

Voter fraud has come to light, as well. How many times did the same Dems vote? That Obama pollster in Ohio seems to have voted at least six times. I guess she's a Super Delegate then.

The party of No is the Dems: No budget, No restraint, No sense, No job, No work ethic....

The Repubs must say No to the fascists.

The Dems and Repubs blamed each other. And they were so right!

Yawn. The whole "slash" of the sequester is less than 3% of the federal budget. IF, and only if, all the sequester cuts are made for the next 10 years, it would amound to 5% of the total national debt. These are NOT "draconian" cuts by any means. They will slowly happen over the course of the year, not all at once. They amount to very little in the big pictrue. If the government goes into hysterics over the prospect of a 3% reduction in its already bloated budget, there really is no hope.

Obama is a real fiscal disaster. He's never had to worry about making a payroll in his life, or managing a budget, or doing any long term planning. I'm not saying he isn't intelligent-he is. He's just not very smart. And also not a very good politician.

Obama demanded the sequester be included in debt ceiling talks back in 2011 and now both parties are trying to score brownie points off of it. If he didn't want the 'meat cleaver' on the table he shouldn't have proposed it in the first place. The cuts proposed in the sequestration are nothing compared to the cuts that need to be done to bring the house into order but I suppose they'd be a start.

Unless you're into partisan politics you realize that there is plenty of blame to go around.

Time to start haggling over how much to cut instead of how much to tax and spend. Like Obama used to say there is no off ramp.

We could probably do with 8-10% less defense spending. It's not like we don't already out-spend the entire world...combined.

"the vast sums of money that Obama pumped int the economy"

To what end?

^^^ $16.6 trillion national debt with more than $6 trillion over the last four years alone. Count on another $4 trillion over the next four years.