For the last six months, the White House told the groups t
hat will suffer the biggest blow if domestic cuts go through one thing: We’ve got this.But a week before the sequester deadline, they’ve decided to change course, summoning cops, teachers, nurses and first responders to the White House for meetings on how to pitch their case to lawmakers on Capitol Hill reluctant to cut a deal.Senior White House and Cabinet aides have been holding daily meetings this week focusing on the real-world implications of the budget battle and how to shame Republicans into coming to the table — even after the cuts take effect on March 1.They’ve even turned their Cabinet members loose, dispatching them across the country after previously keeping them under a gag order on the spending cuts. The White House put the Office of Management and Budget in charge of the messaging on the domestic side of the cuts for agencies, keeping agency heads on a short leash when it came to talking about sequester — leaving Obama to do most of the talking himself. The Cabinet trips suggest the White House realizes they need to bring new voices into the fight as both sides jockey to avoid getting blamed for the cuts in the closing days.
great idea take it to those who are stated as the gov't by and for, doesn't give republicans the chance to spin what came from the horses mouth. republicans will have to do some fast talking to get around the lies they have been feeding their base, and the perogressives are right their to tell them "YOU LIE".
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack traveled this week to his home state of Iowa warning about the implications to rural America if the cuts go through, while Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Education Secretary Arne Duncan testified about the cuts last week before the Senate Appropriations Committee. The panel has also posted more than 20 letters from the FBI to NASA and the State Department detailing the planning under way.“If there was a gag order, I’d say it’s certainly been lifted,” said Joel Packer, one of about 45 education officials who met Tuesday with White House and Education Department officials to discuss sequestration at the Old Executive Office Building.
bet you 10 thousand dollars the right wing with all its clairvoyant abilities telling us what we think and want, didn't see this one coming, right wing generals are backing up from the truth no matter what red meat they throw to their base Pres. and his admin. are all up in their faces saying "uh uh".
