[RealJustme]

Boehner to Obama: You created spending cut crisis, you fix it

House Speaker John Boehner had a simple message Wednesday for President Obama after he used the bully pulpit to blame Republicans for the "meat cleaver" of looming spending cuts: You created it, you fix it.

"Having first proposed and demanded the sequester, it would make sense that the president lead the effort to replace it," Boehner wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Boehner reminded Obama that the automatic cut idea was originally proffered by the White House during the debt-ceiling talks of 2011. He said Congress "reluctantly accepted the president's demand" and claimed it's now up to Obama to find the escape hatch.

"So, as the president's outrage about the sequester grows in coming days, Republicans have a simple response: Mr. President, we agree that your sequester is bad policy, we told you then and we're telling you know. What spending are you willing to cut to replace it?" Boehner asked.

White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer rejected what he described as "revisionist history." The White House acknowledges the "sequester" came from their office, but insisted that's "old news" and claimed the GOP is standing in the way of progress by refusing to consider tax increases.

Pfeiffer delcared that if the White House is forced to make the cuts the sequester calls for, the resulting damages will be the fault of the Republicans who are only trying to protect their rich friends.

Once again, Democrats want to pretend history didn't happen.

[snakeoil]

I'm all turned around. Here, I thought that Congress (House & Senate) were the LEGISLATIVE branches of government that all legislation was supposed to come from. I thought that the President could suggest but that Congress had the right to reject in full, modify, expand or do whatever they wanted to with the President's suggestions. I would seem to me that any lack of legislation is the fault of Congress (Legislative Branch) not the President (Executive Branch.)

[BilboBagend]

Boehner: "I got 98% of what I wanted. I'm a happy man." (in the legislation that I supported, drove, signed, etc.)

[RealJustme]

Boehner to Obama: You created spending cut crisis, you fix it

House Speaker John Boehner had a simple message Wednesday for President Obama after he used the bully pulpit to blame Republicans for the "meat cleaver" of looming spending cuts: You created it, you fix it.

I hope the Republicans make Obama eat his mess. A 22 billion dollar reduction in spending is nothing in a 3,000 billion budget, let Obama figure out where he wants to cut, let it happen. Why not start with cutting back 30 or 40 of Michelle's personal staff and reducing their vacations? 22 billion wouldn't run Obama's Administration for 2 hours, just reduce all Federal workers pay by 1% for one pay check, problem solved.