Obama lied! Dollars died!

For a few weeks now the president has gone from state to state, telling Americans how Republicans in Congress will take a meat cleaver to dollars keeping other Americans fed. The fact is, sequestration was Obama’s idea.

“[T]he automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of [Treasury Secretary nominee Jack] Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors -- probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.
“Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.”
-- Bob Woodward, ‘Obama’s sequester deal-changer,’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bob-woodward-obamas-sequester-deal-changer/2013/02/22/c0b65b5e-7ce1-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html

Linked from http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/the_bating_game_obama_doubles_down.html

Obama has said, “The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.”

Well, not so true.

But, Republicans can’t dump the idea solely onto Obama any more than the president can make the GOP father of sequestration. Republicans helped pass the idea through Congress. Both parties have to take a share of responsibility. National media, though, tend to give Obama a break.