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Dick Durbin Admits the Obama Sequestration Was “Designed as a Budget Threat, Not a Budget Strategy”
Gatewaty Pundit ^ | 2/10/13 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/10/2013 10:26:47 AM PST by Nachum

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) admitted to David Gregory on Meet the Press today that the Obama sequestration plan was just a political game and was never intended to move forward.

“David, sequestration was designed as a budget threat, not as a budget strategy. And, I think all of us understand that if it goes forward in less than three weeks it’s going to have a dramatic negative impact on several agencies.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; budgetthreat; durbin; sequestration; sequestrationthreat
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To: Nachum

And the idiotic GOP Congressional leaders bought in.

Way back they should have just shut down the government and held the debt ceiling and said, “What are you going to do about? Cut hard or no deals.”

Not our spineless jelly fish in congress. Nope. They have to ask “how high” every time Obama says “jump”.


21 posted on 02/10/2013 4:17:42 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: Nachum

As Rush would say, ‘Too clever by half.”

We’ll see the the Muslim kills the Great Satan or admits sequestrian was a stupid idea made by the smartest and most evil “savior” in the world.


22 posted on 02/10/2013 8:44:56 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Poison Pill

That’s too obviously sensible. The Republicans won’t do it.


23 posted on 02/10/2013 8:56:52 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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