I'm all for the sequestration. It'll be the only cuts we see this administration make in the next 4 yrs. One of the few ideas Obama's White House came up with that I agree with.
Everyone's got their panties in a twist over this. It's just another pre-meditated catastrophe that Washington DC is sooooo good at. Even with this sequestration, we (our gov't) are going to spend more this year than last
About damn time we made some cuts......even if they are pretty miniscule.
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There are a lot of people probably 'all for sequestration' until they figure out that it affects them personally. There's nothing wrong with protecting self-interest -- but I doubt most folks have thought how sequestration could present itself in their lives.
Leaving that aside, I sort of liken your attitude with the so-called Tea Partiers who were rallying during the spring and summer of 2012. If you were to scan the crowds captured in those videos, you'd see a largely white, largely older group of Americans -- some of whom were likely receiving their monthly Social Security checks without thinking about how the idea of receiving government support pretty much flies in the face of true laissez-faire capitalist (Tea Party) philosophy.
While I think you're wrong when you claim that the only cuts you'll see from the Obama administration are the sequestration cuts, I'm not sure that either one of us will have a chance to be proven right because partisanship seems to have the rule of law today. A 'good' Republican idea ceases to be a good Republican idea when the Democrats want to embrace it. I'll give you two examples:
1) The Republican candidate for President supported health care reform in every Presidential election since Eisenhower. However, when President Clinton decided to rally with it, it was the dumbest idea ever conceived. Ditto for President Obama... until the will of the American people prevailed.
2) Some of the tightest gun controls since the Firearms Act of 1934 were introduced by President Reagan. President George H.W. Bush banned the import and sale of assault weapons. Yet, President Obama seeks to essentially reinstate the Bush-era laws and he's a villain?
I'm confident there are plenty of examples on both sides of the aisle, but the point is this:
partisanship is the enemy. It is strangling the American will, stymieing public policy, and ultimately, it will harm the economy in ways that no one has yet bothered to imagine.
As to the OP, I think every President has been called a hypocrite as some point in their tenancy of the White House -- it's an unfortunate byproduct of having to find compromise while shouldering sole responsibility for the nation's welfare.