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Politically for the republicans if they caved on this. look where this started. it started in august 2011 when boehner made a deal with the president. the deal was well let you borrow $2.4 trillion more if you let us have some spending cuts. obama says i will gladly increase the debt now for some spending cuts tomorrow. as of this day, wimpy hasnt cut spending. >> susan, downed what the end game is? >> the white house had had a good message. i dont understand why theyve gotten to this -- im tryi...

They will be felt over time. it could result in a recession. it is hard to see how president obama would escape responsibility for that. but the good news is the bad news. it wont be felt immediately but the bad news is it wont be felt immediately. for those of you saying it is a catastrophe a lot of you wont feel it. >> not everyone believes the sequester portends disaster. this is fox news sunday. >> the crisis is made up. it has been created. i didnt support the sequester because thats a stup...

Presidents role. >> these cuts in washington now as sequestration, are you willing to see first responders lose their job and teachers laid off? >> they were president obamas idea. >> the so-called "sequester" was obamas idea in the first place. he signed it law. >> white house recommended this. in august 2011. >> bob: to sell people this is obamas idea, it was his idea. but that is not what the public believes. the public believes -- >> andrea: do you hear yourself? >> bob: i am talking as a po...

Qaedas doing and yes, you can be part of shared sacrifice in the defense department, but do it wisely. >> joe watkins, crossroads gps, a super pac released a new ad blaming the president for blaming the sequester in the first place, so lets take a quick listen to that clip. >> the so-called sequester was obamas idea in the first place. he signed it into law. >> the president is part of the sequester. the white house recommended it back in august 2011. >> and it seems like every three months arou...

Other. the president is going around the country and trying to talk about how its going to first first responders, hurt this and hurt that. the republicans werent in town this week and hopefully everyone will be in town next week and that leaves five days and thats not enough time to get this done. as was the case that began with the first budget problem in august 2011 when they do talk, they talk past each other and theyre talking to their base rather than talking to each other to try to get th...

Ultimately who is responsible? >> i think its on both houses. if you read about woodwards book and i think it will be in the post tomorrow that clearly sequestration was something that jack thought up during the discussions and you know, the republicans adapted and i voted for it and so to say that its the presidents fault here, its counterproductive. we got here with at least in this last generation, in my opinion in august 2011 when the president and the speaker were meeting behind closed door...

About, layoffs and more unemployment and people not getting paid, well, what kind of situation do you think we have now and who is responsible for the layoffs and the cuts in r and d and all of the fiscal disaster that were already seeing despite sequestration? >> brian: one thing i always thought is where are the other democrats? i dont know if theyre for the president, behind the president. you dont hear anything. here is senator baucus and im sure the president wasnt happy to hear this. >> th...

President and the democrats in the senate, as well. heres the thing. whale the white house is trying to walk away from it, theres a senator from montana, hes a democrat, max, and he went off the reservation yesterday when he revealed, oh, yeah, the president, hes responsible. listen to this. >> the president is part of the sequester. the white house recommended it frankly, back in how long, 2011. -- august, 2011. now we are feeling the effects of it. i dont want to say the president is solely to...

Powerpoint that speaker boehners office had put out at the time. they did that yesterday. he created it when he was trying to sell the deal to his more conservative members. so republicans, they spent the day yesterday passing around this video of a montana democratic senator, max caucus whos up for re-election in 2014, who was saying this about the sequester. >> the white house recommended it frankly, back in august 2011, so now were feeling the effects of it. >> of all the dumb things washingt...

The last piece of the august 2011 debt ceiling agreement whereby the president, senate democrats and house republicans said, okay, lets raise the debt ceiling but for every dollar we raise that debt ceiling, well lower spending by a dollar. so i am in favor of keeping that agreement. >> but keeping that agreement, if the sequester goes into effect, according to the cbo, it says it will cut u.s. growth in half. it will cost at least 1 million jobs and jobs by extension, consumers, which drive the...