[SkyPilot]

I don't see this as helping the crisis we are in one iota. Congress has already tapped the keg of Federal pay with pay freezes, cost of living freezes, locality pay freezes, and the DoD has already cut thousands of jobs.

Plus, this weird "plan" only pays for the cuts until....September!

The entire proposal buys back less than a year. The government would still have to find the other nine years of sequestration cuts -- almost $1 trillion -- somewhere else. Republicans made it very clear that mandatory entitlements like Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare, which make up more than half the federal budget, must be on the table.

Until we reform Entitlements, this nation is on a path for disaster.

While the GOP-controlled House has passed stop-sequester bills, "we've done nothing in the Senate," Graham said, directly urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (a Democrat) to schedule a debate.

Does the Senate EVER work?

Addressing President Obama, the visibly distressed Graham went on: "We bear responsibility as Republicans for allowing this to happen -- lead us to a better situation. If you do not, Mr. President, you will go down as one of the most irresponsible commanders in chief in the history of this country."

I think you can change that to "The" most irresponsible commander in chief in the history of this country.

Congress should take a bow - they are no better. The Democrats refuse to reform our chocking entitlments, and the GOP has "embraced" the sequestration cuts (see: Ryan, Paul).

[pepsionice]

I will point this out....this suggested furlough deal of 22 days between April and 1 October....is likely only phase one. The same issue starts up on the new fiscal year, and another 22 days of furlough likely by January of 2014. Same for 2015, and 2016.

The Republicans have figured out the President’s plan and simply allowed him to walk as far out on the plank as possible. The President woke up this past week and suggested that even a minor deal was now possible. I don’t think you will see anything offered that would be agreeable.

It is the absolute expectation of four years of screwed-up government budgets that will occur, and the legacy for President Obama will likely center on this four-year span. Don’t expect any real deployments or reactions to any hostile threat. I think the best description here....is that the President has become the CEO of K-Mart, and runs an almost bankrupt nation on a daily basis, with no real plan for a better outcome.

[SueRae]

Inhofe is absolutely right...you can’t keep running a country on continuing resolutions. Get a freaking budget together first. That is the root of the problem, all else comes after.

[Candor7]

Navy Delays Carrier Deployment>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hammer it home GOP:

This is what happens when the President does not lead
in bringing a budget forward for 5 years and clings to his sophomoric no compromise dictatorial approach.

Hammer it home in the media over and over.Start your own campaign.

Let sequestration happen.

[Venturer]

One Carrier in the Persian Gulf is not because of no money. We can print more, like they have done for the past 4 years.
On carrier in the Persian Gulf is part of Obama’s plan to frighten us into passing his efforts to keep on spending, to raise taxes and to make the Republicans bend over——just like they have done for the last four years.

[Happy Rain]

Remember when the libs tried to blame Obama’s “Four Dead In Benghazi” on Republican so-called spending “cuts?"

Reducing spending GROWTH is contrived as CUTS by the Left and Big Government GOP-e RINOs.

Cut a dollar out of a trillion dollar increase and you are keeping carriers in port and threatening national security...but forget trying to educate the Obama LIVs on it.

[norwaypinesavage]

Obama is doing to the US the same thing your local school board does when it wants a tax increase - cut the things that hurt the taxpayers the most. In the case of the schools, they cut things like school buses and after school activities. They leave the bloated staffs of vice-supretendants, vice principals, assistant vice-suprentendents, assistant vice-principals, etc. in place.

Obama is cutting the most necessary and important items, leaving such things as WWII occupation forces and bases standing. Obama will gut defense spending regardless of the sequester. At least with the sequester, the Republicans have some bargaining power to make other cuts.Don't fall for it! I repeat, Obama will gut the defense budget no matter what.

[Alas Babylon!]

The democratic Senate hasn't passed a budget in five years?

So. That didn't hurt them at all in the recent elections. They even have a political campaign for that.