President Obama took his perpetual campaign on the road this afternoon to scare the workers at Newport News Shipbuilding about the looming sequestration cuts.<\/p>\n\n\n
Obama standing next to a giant propeller for his anti-sequester speech surrounded by glum looking workers<\/p>\n
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n 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:<\/p>\n\n\n “In a few days, Congress might allow a series of arbitrary budget cuts to take place—known in Washington as ‘the sequester.’” #JobsOverCuts<\/a><\/p>\n — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Obama: “The sequester uses a meat-cleaver approach to gut critical investments in things like education & national security.” #JobsOverCuts<\/a><\/p>\n — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Meat cleaver? Violent rhetoric alert!<\/p>\n\n\n Obama: These cuts “will weaken America’s economic recovery, our military readiness, and the basic services the American people depend on.”<\/p>\n — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n “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<\/a><\/p>\n — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Why is Obama complaining about the sequester. Didn’t he promise in a debate that there was no way it would happen?<\/p>\n — Jon Gabriel (@ExJon) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Why yes, yes he did<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n “These cuts are wrong. They aren’t smart, they aren’t fair.” – guy who dreamed up sequester, signed it, threatened to veto its replacement.<\/p>\n — Rudy Drewliani (@FigDrewton) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Well, if you’re gonna get technical<\/a> …<\/p>\n\n\n President Obama: “We can’t ask seniors and working families like yours to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction.” #JobsOverCuts<\/a><\/p>\n — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Obama: “We won’t grow the middle class simply by shifting the cost of health care or college onto families that are already struggling.”<\/p>\n — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n POTUS @ Newport News Shipbldg, maker VA-class subs: “hundreds of thousands of jobs are in jeopardy because of politics in Washington.”<\/p>\n — Jay Carney (EOP) (@PressSec) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Shipbuilders and Americans everywhere will ultimately wind up starving, homeless, or worse:<\/p>\n\n\n Obama: “Sequester is a pretty bad name. But the effects are even worse than the name.”<\/p>\n — Roger Simon (@politicoroger) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Obama on “not smart” cuts: “You don’t want to choose between – do I close funding for disabled kid or the poor kid”<\/p>\n — Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n But let him be clear: the last thing we need is more manufactured crises<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n Obama: “We’ve got to stop having these crises manufactured every month. You guys must be tired of these things.”<\/p>\n — Roger Simon (@politicoroger) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Obama: “The greatest nation on earth can’t just keep drifting from one crisis to another.”<\/p>\n — Roger Simon (@politicoroger) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Or blame-gaming:<\/p>\n\n\n 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”<\/p>\n — Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n No sirree!<\/p>\n\n\n Obama says he’s “not interested in playing a blame game” just after saying Congress is about to drag country into another Great Recession<\/p>\n — David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n HAHAHAHAHA MT @clusterstock<\/a>: OBAMA: “I’ve run my last election. … I’m not interested in spin, I’m not interested in playing a blame game.”<\/p>\n — Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Obama said he’s not interested in playing the blame game. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL bit.ly\/15gMzgP<\/a> LOLOLOLOLOLOL #tcot<\/a> #p2<\/a> #sequester<\/a><\/p>\n — RB (@RBPundit) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Just kidding!<\/p>\n\n\n POTUS: “too many R’s in Congress…refuse to compromise an inch when it comes to closing tax loopholes & special interest tax breaks.”<\/p>\n — Jay Carney (EOP) (@PressSec) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n But just so y’all know, he’s still as humble as ever<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n Obama: “The one thing about being president is that after four years, you become pretty humble.”<\/p>\n — Roger Simon (@politicoroger) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n 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:<\/p>\n\n\n If you would actually lead & solve problems @barackobama<\/a> , we wouldn’t be going from manufactured crisis to crisis.<\/p>\n — Bobo(@thegreatbobo) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n How, just how does this guy sleep at night? The lies are head spinning.<\/p>\n — Jerome Hudson(@JeromeEHudson) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Good Lord Obama is shameless.<\/p>\n — Heather (@hmfearny) February 26, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n ***<\/p>\n Related:<\/p>\n Fact check: NPR trying hard to pin Obama’s sequestration cuts on Republicans<\/a><\/p>\n Delusional: Obama claims ‘his door is open’; Bemoans GOP ‘ideological rigidity’<\/a><\/p>\n Apocalypse soon: Democrats ramp up scare campaign over sequestration cuts<\/a><\/p>\n Dem Sen. Max Baucus speaks out of turn, admits sequester was White House’s idea<\/a><\/p>\n #StopTheSequester: Dems keep scare-mongering as Obama readies for pricey speech<\/a><\/p>\n #JobsNotCuts: Obama, progs push sequester hashtag; conservatives hijack with truth<\/a><\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/02\/26\/thats-rich-obama-decries-manufactured-crises-blame-gaming-in-sequestration-speech\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JeromeEHudson\/status\/306471581696274433 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! 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