Obama Sends Forth The Flying Mokeys

“The Washington Post's most well-known investigative journalist, Bob Woodward, who exposed Richard Nixon's role in Watergate, has accused Obama of "moving the goal posts" in his disingenuous negotiations with Republicans.

In a Post op-ed last week, Woodward made clear that sequestration was the "brain child" of the Obama administration: "My extensive reporting for my book 'The Price of Politics' shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of [Jack Lew, then-budget director during the negotiations] and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors. ... Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). They did so on July 27, 2011."

This week, Woodward told CNN that a "very senior person" in the Obama administration warned, "You will regret doing this." Of course, this is the same sort of Chicago political thuggery that this administration levels at any of its mainstream media lieutenants who dare express dissenting views.

Ignoring that warning, on Wednesday Woodward took Obama to the woodshed for publicly declaring that Obama was not sending a carrier in response to the current meltdown in the Middle East because of the pending sequestration. "Under the Constitution, the President is commander-in-chief and employs the force. And so we now have the President going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement. 'I can't do what I need to do to protect the country.' That's a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time."

Surely Woodward never actually believed Obama would honor in any way, shape or form, his oath to "support and defend" above his devotion to socialist partisanship?”

Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post