From Mark Steyn:
“If I understand correctly, by the time you read this, the planes will be dropping from the skies; the drip-feeds in every emergency room will be dry; every creature on the endangered species list will have broken free from our pristine federally manned national parks to be left for roadkill in the potholed asphalt of America’s crumbling interstates; you’ll turn on your bathroom faucet only to find the town reservoir choked with fecal coliform; the Ebola virus will be rampant across Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire, and other swing states, where it will nevertheless enjoy higher approval ratings than Marco Rubio and every other prospective GOP nominee.
“The sequester supposedly cuts $44 billion from the federal budget — or from the rate of growth of the federal budget. Whatever. $44 billion is about what the United States government borrows every nine days, so it’s not a lot. But it’s apparently responsible for everything that matters in American life. That being so, maybe it would be easier to reinstate this critical $44 billion and cut the other $3.8 trillion, which is apparently responsible for nothing other than Harry Reid’s beloved federally funded cowboy-poetry festival and the cost of the dress uniforms for the military detachment accompanying the first lady at her Oscars appearance.” (more)
This graph shows just how draconian the spending cuts actually are:
Scary, huh? Here’s what they look like, compared with federal spending and the federal budget deficit:
The difference these piddling little cuts will make to our national debt is negligible. Predictably, the Democrats want us to be terrified of the spending cuts (which are tiny), but not of our national debt (which is enormous).
The president and his cronies blame the usual suspects…
… even though the idea for the sequester came from the White House, the president’s lies to the contrary notwithstanding.
Few Americans will experience the sequester as more than a bump in the road (if that)…
…but the Kenyan Kid still hasn’t learned that if you cry “wolf” too often, people eventually start ignoring you.
And didn’t you just know that the Democrats in Congress would find some way to inject race into the issue?
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus said Monday night that the $85 billion in cuts to federal spending, known as the sequester, will disproportionately affect blacks and other minorities, in part because they are more likely to work for the government.
“Sequestration will impact everyone, but it will have a particularly harmful effect on communities of color who were hit first and worst by the great recession, and have yet to significantly feel the effects of the recovery,” Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said Monday. (more)
Oleg Atbashian of The People’s Cube comments:
Credentialed specialists in political cosmology and government-approved astrophysics are grappling with a mind-bending possibility: what if there is some force other than government power that is responsible for the world in which we live?
This unexpected schism is caused by recent experiments at the Large Handout Deficit Collider, in which generated sequester particles did not cause the universe to implode as predicted.
The original plan called for shooting highly charged irresistable Keynsian public stimulus forces at immovable wealthy private capital objects, in the hope of creating enough monetary fusion products to keep the economy’s momentum from decelerating for another summer.
Theoreticians believed if the deficit could not reach sanity escape velocity, huge numbers of sequester particles would be released, which would generate financial black holes and quickly envelop all observable too-big-to-fail banks, eventually compressing the entire world economy into a space smaller than Joe Biden’s brain.” (more)
Charles Krauthammer comments:
“The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.”
Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2 percent — and the country survives. That a government now borrowing 35 cents of every dollar it spends reduces that borrowing by two cents “and nothing bad really happens.” Oh, the humanity! (more)
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For God, Family, and Country 
Awesome! I was out checking on a neighbor a few minutes ago (translation for Democrats: Like the Peace Corps, except for Conservatives…), and I brought the dog along. On the way back, he took off barking at another neighbor who had stopped her new Jeep at the community mailbox to pick up mail. He usually only does this to Democrats, and sure enough, when I got closer, there was an “Obama-Biden 2012” sticker on the rear hatch. I was shocked that we had another neighbor revealed as an idiot, but at least the dog let her know how we feel about her stupidity. 😉
No surprise. Dogs have a keen sense of smell and they can tell a lot from droppings. Your pooch got a whiff of liberal bullsh%t.
It’s a good thing he can detect it, too, because they look so normal sometimes. It’s impossible to tell without a bullsh%t-sniffing hound… Unless they advertise.