You know, there seems to be, among Democrats at least, an odd competition, of sorts going on. A competition of who it is, exactly, that can come up with the most bizarre analogy regarding Barry’s ‘sequester’ and our supposedly non-existent spending problem. The latest player entered the contest just last Thursday when we heard from the brilliant Sheila Jackson Lee. Ms. Jackson Lee saw fit to compare the series of automatic federal budget cuts, that took effect on March 1, to the Japanese tsunami of 2011 that killed more than 15,000 people and left millions more without power and water, while sparking a nuclear reactor meltdown. Yup, in presenting her bizarre little analogy, the esteemed Ms. Jackson Lee said, "And for those whose memories fade, I want you to be reminded of the tsunami." And then she went on to say, "For it does not give notice and it is tragic and reckless for those who say ‘You know what, the sequester has started and I feel pretty good’ because you have not been hit by the tsunami." Again let’s not forget, this is Barry’s sequester.
She also went on to "warn" that this supposed "tsunami" of effects from the cuts, known as The Sequester, could come at any time – even at a time when Congress is not in session. "It may come at a moment -- when we are away on work recess, or when the speaker has sent us home and we’re not here working. And all of a sudden a great percentage of America will be walking around without benefits, without childcare, without teachers in our schools, and we’ll ask the question ‘What happened?’" she said. "It was the tsunami of the sequester," she added. Jackson Lee appeared at a Capitol Hill news conference in support of the "Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013," introduced on 6 March by her Democrat House colleague, and fellow loon, Rep. John Conyers. Let’s face it, who but a liberal Democrat could conceive of such a cockamamie idea as "The Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013?" How is it that they, the Democrats, feel they should be taken seriously when discussing our current budgetary when make such nutty proposals as this?
So now we have a number of liberal Democrats that are urging the House Republican leaders to join with them in an effort to simply eliminate the provision in the Budget Control Act of 2011 that authorizes $44 Billion in across-the-board cuts to take effect each year for the next ten years, amounting to about $1.2 Trillion in total cuts after one decade. The Sequester, that is, Barry’s sequester, which took effect on March 1 came about as a result of the failure by both Congress and the White House to negotiate a deal for alternative cuts, accounts for about 1.2 percent, or $44 Billion, of this year’s overall federal budget, a paltry sum, really, in the big scheme of things. The automatic across-the-board "cuts," however, only slow the rate of growth of federal spending, rather than reduce the amount of funding that is already available. For the past four years, the federal budget deficit has not fallen below $1 trillion. And the Democrats can look at that and come to the conclusion that in no way can we, or should we, cut spending by even $44 Billion?
At the time of this idiotic gibberish, recently spewed by Ms. Jackson-Lee, our nation’s debt stood at a staggering $16,700,634,854,470.52. Now if this silly "Cancel the Sequester Act of 2013" proves anything, it’s that Democrats are not the least bit interested in cutting spending, only in raising taxes. And that, as anybody with a brain can readily recognize, in a recipe for disaster. Which I contend, is exactly what Jackson Lee and her fellow Democrats are trying to bring about, a financial and economic disaster. Where was she, in making her idiotic analogy when Barry first dreamed up this whole notion of the sequester? I really don’t really recall her raising any kind of objections at the time because she recognized it as what it was. A tactic dreamt by Barry to put pressure on the Republicans, so Democrats, all Democrats, were only too happy to sign on at the time. Now, apparently thinking that we’ve forgotten that it was all Barry’s idea, they think that can now say the Republicans came up with it, and it must now somehow be averted. Nope, ain’t happenin’.
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