Obama Doesn't Want Dictatorial Power over Sequester Cuts - Granite Grok

Obama Doesn’t Want Dictatorial Power over Sequester Cuts

Email and social media have been burning up with cries and moans about the US Senate giving Obama dictatorial power.

What they actually tried to do was to give him complete control over the Sequester cuts.  Only the Sequester cuts.  But all 85 Billion. Obama could pick and choose what got cut without having to concern himself with congress.  He could save head start, border patrol, firefighters, and instead pick low priority programs or the jobs of redundant pencil pushers.

He said he’d veto it.

Given the chance to lead, he voted present.  He is either incapable, or unwilling to lead.  Or, more likely, leading presents too many risks to his real agenda, which has nothing to do with protecting and defending America as he claims and everything to do with protecting Obama.

Added video the jump; Charles Krauthammer on Fox News

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E3epYAimBc8

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A 2011 Government Accountability Office report gave a sampling of the vastness of what could be cut, consolidated and rationalized in Washington: 44 overlapping job training programs, 18 for nutrition assistance, 82 (!) on teacher quality, 56 dealing with financial literacy, more than 20 for homelessness, etc. Total annual cost: $100 billion-$200 billion, about two to five times the entire domestic sequester.

Are these on the chopping block? No sir. It’s firemen first.

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