Obama decries manufactured crises, blame-gaming in sequestration speech

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President Obama took his perpetual campaign on the road this afternoon to scare the workers at Newport News Shipbuilding about the looming sequestration cuts.

Obama standing next to a giant propeller for his anti-sequester speech surrounded by glum looking workers

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) February 26, 2013

Well, no wonder they’re glum! You see, according to Obama, if the minor spending cuts go into effect, we’re in for a heap of trouble:

“In a few days, Congress might allow a series of arbitrary budget cuts to take place—known in Washington as ‘the sequester.’” #JobsOverCuts

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013

Obama: “The sequester uses a meat-cleaver approach to gut critical investments in things like education & national security.” #JobsOverCuts

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013

Meat cleaver? Violent rhetoric alert!

Obama: These cuts “will weaken America’s economic recovery, our military readiness, and the basic services the American people depend on.”

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013

“These cuts are wrong. They’re not smart. They’re not fair. They’re a self-inflicted wound that doesn’t have to happen.” #JobsOverCuts

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013

Why is Obama complaining about the sequester. Didn’t he promise in a debate that there was no way it would happen?

— Jon Gabriel (@ExJon) February 26, 2013

Why yes, yes he did.

“These cuts are wrong. They aren’t smart, they aren’t fair.” – guy who dreamed up sequester, signed it, threatened to veto its replacement.

— Rudy Drewliani (@FigDrewton) February 26, 2013

Well, if you’re gonna get technical

President Obama: “We can’t ask seniors and working families like yours to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction.” #JobsOverCuts

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013

Obama: “We won’t grow the middle class simply by shifting the cost of health care or college onto families that are already struggling.”

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013

POTUS @ Newport News Shipbldg, maker VA-class subs: “hundreds of thousands of jobs are in jeopardy because of politics in Washington.”

— Jay Carney (EOP) (@PressSec) February 26, 2013

Shipbuilders and Americans everywhere will ultimately wind up starving, homeless, or worse:

Obama: “Sequester is a pretty bad name. But the effects are even worse than the name.”

— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) February 26, 2013

Obama on “not smart” cuts: “You don’t want to choose between – do I close funding for disabled kid or the poor kid”

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) February 26, 2013

But let him be clear: the last thing we need is more manufactured crises:

Obama: “We’ve got to stop having these crises manufactured every month. You guys must be tired of these things.”

— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) February 26, 2013

Obama: “The greatest nation on earth can’t just keep drifting from one crisis to another.”

— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) February 26, 2013

Or blame-gaming:

Obama: “I’m not interested in spin, I’m not interest in playing a blame game. At this point, all I’m interested in is solving problems”

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) February 26, 2013

No sirree!

Obama says he’s “not interested in playing a blame game” just after saying Congress is about to drag country into another Great Recession

— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) February 26, 2013

HAHAHAHAHA MT @clusterstock: OBAMA: “I’ve run my last election. … I’m not interested in spin, I’m not interested in playing a blame game.”

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 26, 2013

Obama said he’s not interested in playing the blame game. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL bit.ly/15gMzgP LOLOLOLOLOLOL #tcot #p2 #sequester

— RB (@RBPundit) February 26, 2013

Just kidding!

POTUS: “too many R’s in Congress…refuse to compromise an inch when it comes to closing tax loopholes & special interest tax breaks.”

— Jay Carney (EOP) (@PressSec) February 26, 2013

But just so y’all know, he’s still as humble as ever:

Obama: “The one thing about being president is that after four years, you become pretty humble.”

— Roger Simon (@politicoroger) February 26, 2013

So we can be grateful for that. We’re not nearly as grateful, however, that we’ve still got nearly four more years of this garbage:

If you would actually lead & solve problems @barackobama , we wouldn’t be going from manufactured crisis to crisis.

— Bobo(@thegreatbobo) February 26, 2013

How, just how does this guy sleep at night? The lies are head spinning.

— Jerome Hudson(@JeromeEHudson) February 26, 2013

Good Lord Obama is shameless.

— Heather (@hmfearny) February 26, 2013

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