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Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised

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Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised - Washington Times

He said he was discouraged by officials in Washington, who gave him this reply: “We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”

Are you freaking kidding me? So the simple premise would be "We told them it was going to be bad so make sure it IS bad."?

And they go on to say, essentially, "We are trying to make it as painless as possible but we probably won't be able to inspect meat so that will be in short supply."

Man, those of you who still believe that a gigantic government is your friend had better be paying attention because this is the antithesis of governance and is running headlong into "ruling".
 
Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised - Washington Times


Are you freaking kidding me? So the simple premise would be "We told them it was going to be bad so make sure it IS bad."?

And they go on to say, essentially, "We are trying to make it as painless as possible but we probably won't be able to inspect meat so that will be in short supply."

Man, those of you who still believe that a gigantic government is your friend had better be paying attention because this is the antithesis of governance and is running headlong into "ruling".

Makes.Me.Sick.

Thanks for the post...good to see it in black-and-white though I think many of us instinctively knew that's exactly what was going to happen.
 
This is disgusting. Reminds me of the employers that told their employees you better not vote for Obama or I might have to cut your hours and did it to make good on the threat.

Again, I have trouble believeing so much in the media. I am going to have to wait to get to upset about it, waiting for more information. But I can believe it, sounds like politics as usual in America.
 
Can't wait to see the apologists moonwalk all over this. Someone finally had the balls to take away Obama's credit card and now he is throwing a tantrum to try to demonize the opposition in the eyes of his clueless sheep. The guy is a waste of skin.
 
I'm awaiting the appearance of Catawba, HOJ, etc...........
 
It is important to remember that it was the Obama White House (after lying about it until Woodward proved up the lie) that proposed the Sequestration. Now he declares that his program will devastate the economy. And next we learn his agency wants it to devastate even the food supply.
 
It is our moron congress critters that allowed this to pose as "budgeting", which is their job. Obama is indeed a clever dude as he was served up the perfect opportunity to make these small spending cuts (actually just not planned spending increases in most cases) "hurt". The Obama message is that ALL, yep every single dime (famous Obama words), federal spending is "needed". The MSM will give him a pass, as they also like the huge federal nanny state idea. Obama can lie with the best of them. ;)

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My question is what does the email say in context. We all know where this ends 99 percent of the time.
 
This whole thing is blowing up in Obama's face, he got a little too cocky.

OMG he is so doomed now. Every time they took stuff out of context or credited someone else's words to him in the past it has totally blown up in their faces, but this time it is for reals. Obama is doomed and now Mitt Romny will be president. This is down right cartoonish. The plot of the week to destroy Obama has become comical and now is extremely old in season 2. Can't we get a better villain in this show?

Really, after all the failed attempts at this you expect anyone but a fanboy of the right to even get excited at this tactic? It is not even his quote. The best you can hope for is the guy who made it to get tossed under the bus for speaking way out of line. Don't you guys get to a point where you people fail so many times in the same exact way and you just get tired of it? I have seen dogs catch onto the fake ball throw faster than republicans. But no i am sure they really have obama this time, he is sure to be destroyed.

perhaps obama is cocky because he is up against the same idiots who have failed time and time again, and the same old plan?
 
Both Boehner and Obama stated on the record that the sequester would never happen.

Both are liars, and share the blame.
 
So, does anyone have a copy of this e-mail, full text? It looks like at least some individuals thing it says something different than what the article suggests...I'd like to see the e-mail, and other related e-mails sent to the same individual, before drawing a conclusion.
 
Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised - Washington Times


Are you freaking kidding me? So the simple premise would be "We told them it was going to be bad so make sure it IS bad."?

And they go on to say, essentially, "We are trying to make it as painless as possible but we probably won't be able to inspect meat so that will be in short supply."

Man, those of you who still believe that a gigantic government is your friend had better be paying attention because this is the antithesis of governance and is running headlong into "ruling".

You expect something different? Listen, the bailouts have proven once and for all who the government serves, and it's not us. So they can make it as painful as possible, their buddies can weather the storm, and they're isolated from outrage by the People so they can really do whatever they want. This is just about power and which side can seize more, nothing new here. This is the trend of the Republocrats, this is the status quo.
 
Its just the feds saying, "Look. We are running the Washington Monument Gambit here, don't F it up." Nothing to see here that isn't new.
 
What this is about is obama saying give me money or I will ruin your day, your week, your month, your year. The sequester is not a reduction in gov spending, it is a tiny amount sliced off of growth in spending and obama is still getting alot more than he got last year. The email proves that obama is not willing or able to govern, he is acting like a spoiled child that didn't get his way. The really insane part of this is while obama is making cuts that will hurt the American people the most he is posting job listings for 600 new employees per day. Obama wants government to grow and any attempt to even slow that growth will be dealt with harshly, it's the Chicago mafia way. It is like telling the owner of a store to pay up or your store may just burn down some night.
 
http://griffin.house.gov/sites/griffin.house.gov/files/email.pdf

It seems to say exactly what the article says it does.

OK, so the opinion of the guy who wrote the email was taken completely out of context of a meeting he quoted only a small part of. I cannot imagine the meeting he quoted only consisted of a sentence or two. Like always the whole quote is not there. realize i did not say the whole email is not there, but the email pulls this quote from a meeting, a meeting that a quote was pulled out of context. So the email says what the article says it does, but the email pulls things out of context. It doesn't actually shield the fail factory from another out of context load of BS to add another layer to it.

Somehow i knew that this was yet another out of context quotation the republicans have latched onto in an attempt to destroy obama, who is also not even referenced in the quote at all. Seriously, they are pulling this again and you are falling for it? Now they have to actually pull the minutes of the meeting that were recorded so we can see the quote in full context because we all know this BS has happened before. If there is no actual meeting text the email has been taken from then the entire quote by the sender is paraphrasing and interpretation from memory at best.

I will give you that it looks like this email said what the article implies, but we cannot even confirm that he isn't making up his own agenda. You want to use this as some great evidence against obama? this gets shakier and shakier. this is why people have stopped listening to the right wing BS factory. It just turns out the same way every time with them cackling that they have nailed Obama with these things, and yet they interpret things to fit their case, pull things out of context, associate things with obama that were said by other people, and blame obama for some manufactured story and claim victory over his evil empire. It is old. it is tired. it has not worked in the past at all. The only thing this does is make them look desperate to find anything when we all know there has to be something because obama is one of the biggest group of liars on the planet known as the US government.

Don't you get tired of it? Doesn't it become an up and down ride of fake victory and inevitable failure for you? How is it that all this time later you have held onto hope that this time it is going to work? But good luck with the whole destroying Obama with an email with an out of context quote that doesn't even reference obama at all. I am sure you are excited about it working this time. Perhaps some of your anger at the Obama admin should be heaped on the shoulders of the people who keep building your hopes up on destroying the man and then dashing them on the rocks over and over and over again. How many times have they attempted to impeach him with their claims? You certainly cannot blame obama for them having this supposed damning evidence and not using it time and time again?
 
What this is about is obama saying give me money or I will ruin your day, your week, your month, your year. The sequester is not a reduction in gov spending, it is a tiny amount sliced off of growth in spending and obama is still getting alot more than he got last year. The email proves that obama is not willing or able to govern, he is acting like a spoiled child that didn't get his way. The really insane part of this is while obama is making cuts that will hurt the American people the most he is posting job listings for 600 new employees per day. Obama wants government to grow and any attempt to even slow that growth will be dealt with harshly, it's the Chicago mafia way. It is like telling the owner of a store to pay up or your store may just burn down some night.

Actually, it is nothing about any of that. This is about some guy pulling a quote OOC from a meeting and then emailing it out to a bunch of people. It is not a quote from Obama, nor does it even say Obama says to do this. So really this has nothing to dow ith obama and is another OOC right wing BS fest that simply adds another layer to the heap by having an email take things out of context instead of their creative editors. But don't let that stop your victory dance, i am sure they have truly exposed obama for what he is this time. i am sure the world will look at that and realize the republicans are totally right and this is all obama's fault. I am sure no one will sigh and roll their eyes thinking that the republican hate machine has done this stupid thing again. You should all get together and dress up as obama and do the harlem shake. That will ensure your victory over him this time.
 
OK, so the opinion of the guy who wrote the email was taken completely out of context of a meeting he quoted only a small part of. I cannot imagine the meeting he quoted only consisted of a sentence or two. Like always the whole quote is not there. realize i did not say the whole email is not there, but the email pulls this quote from a meeting, a meeting that a quote was pulled out of context. So the email says what the article says it does, but the email pulls things out of context. It doesn't actually shield the fail factory from another out of context load of BS to add another layer to it.

Somehow i knew that this was yet another out of context quotation the republicans have latched onto in an attempt to destroy obama, who is also not even referenced in the quote at all. Seriously, they are pulling this again and you are falling for it? Now they have to actually pull the minutes of the meeting that were recorded so we can see the quote in full context because we all know this BS has happened before. If there is no actual meeting text the email has been taken from then the entire quote by the sender is paraphrasing and interpretation from memory at best.

I will give you that it looks like this email said what the article implies, but we cannot even confirm that he isn't making up his own agenda. You want to use this as some great evidence against obama? this gets shakier and shakier. this is why people have stopped listening to the right wing BS factory. It just turns out the same way every time with them cackling that they have nailed Obama with these things, and yet they interpret things to fit their case, pull things out of context, associate things with obama that were said by other people, and blame obama for some manufactured story and claim victory over his evil empire. It is old. it is tired. it has not worked in the past at all. The only thing this does is make them look desperate to find anything when we all know there has to be something because obama is one of the biggest group of liars on the planet known as the US government.

Don't you get tired of it? Doesn't it become an up and down ride of fake victory and inevitable failure for you? How is it that all this time later you have held onto hope that this time it is going to work? But good luck with the whole destroying Obama with an email with an out of context quote that doesn't even reference obama at all. I am sure you are excited about it working this time. Perhaps some of your anger at the Obama admin should be heaped on the shoulders of the people who keep building your hopes up on destroying the man and then dashing them on the rocks over and over and over again. How many times have they attempted to impeach him with their claims? You certainly cannot blame obama for them having this supposed damning evidence and not using it time and time again?

OK....just because I've always wanted to know.....hypothetically now...let's say that tomorrow morning Barack Obama wakes up and walks out on to Pennsylvania Avenue where he sticks a fork into the eye of the first baby he sees, spits in the mothers face and has the father executed. What would be the excuse you made to justify that behavior?
 
Both Boehner and Obama stated on the record that the sequester would never happen.

Both are liars, and share the blame.

it is only a lie if we have evidence they knew it was false.
 
OK....just because I've always wanted to know.....hypothetically now...let's say that tomorrow morning Barack Obama wakes up and walks out on to Pennsylvania Avenue where he sticks a fork into the eye of the first baby he sees, spits in the mothers face and has the father executed. What would be the excuse you made to justify that behavior?

It depends...need race and political affiliation baby and family as well as time of day and clothing worn by said family.
 
OK....just because I've always wanted to know.....hypothetically now...let's say that tomorrow morning Barack Obama wakes up and walks out on to Pennsylvania Avenue where he sticks a fork into the eye of the first baby he sees, spits in the mothers face and has the father executed. What would be the excuse you made to justify that behavior?

Oh come on now, don't get mad at me because you fell for it yet again. I told you, I have no doubt obama does the wrong things and lies. i just don't believe he is alone. hell, US politicians are not alone in that. Your anger is coming because you are believing in a dishonest side. You are believing that they are going to fix the world of obama's evil, but yet you see that they never get it right. This is like believing in a professional wrestler. It is all scripted, and it is all an act. While you are having blind faith in the republicans to save the world they are pretty much taking your money just like the rest. That is why you will always be let down, because you expect something from these people. It is like watching the three stooges and thinking they are not going to screw up this time.

So ask all the absurd questions you want, but it is not Obama that is your problem. Your problem is your faith in your side.
 
It depends...need race and political affiliation baby and family as well as time of day and clothing worn by said family.

Keep making light of it all.

Have you ever heard the word "Holdomor"?
 
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