Too Little, Too Late

If Obama Was Serious About Solutions To The Sequester, Why Wait Until Now To Meet With Congressional Leaders? 

• On the day Obama’s sequester is scheduled to begin, the president is holding his first meeting with congressional leaders on how to avert it.

• President Obama would rather campaign and play politics with devastating automatic spending cuts than work on a real solution.

• Republicans have worked tirelessly to avoid the president’s sequester, while Obama has worked tirelessly to avoid the blame.

President Obama Will Meet With Congressional Leaders Today—The Day The Sequester Goes Into Effect. “In a meeting planned for Friday, President Obama will push Republican congressional leaders to accept higher tax revenue in order to avoid deep spending cuts set to take effect on the same day.” (Zachary Goldfarb and Michael Berman, “Obama To Meet With Congressional Leaders On Ways To Avoid Sequester,” The Washington Post, 2/27/13) 

President Obama: “I Don’t Know Why…Folks Leave Stuff Until The Last Minute” “President Obama complained Wednesday about the down-to-the-wire culture of Washington deal-making, as he held out hope that lawmakers will pass a bill to stop deep spending cuts from taking effect on March 1. ‘I don’t know why it is in this town, folks leave stuff until the last minute,’ Obama said in an interview with Baltimore’s CBS affiliate, WJZ, one of eight local interviews he did Wednesday to gain support for his plan to prevent the cuts from taking effect. (Jennifer Epstein, “Obama: ‘I Don’t Know Why … Folks Leave Stuff Until The Last Minute’,” Politico, 2/20/13)