Obama administration email to Feds: make sequester as painful as promised

Yep, that's right.  Certain federal agencies are working hard (commendably, I might add) to reduce the impact of mandatory cuts caused by the Obama sequester on the taxpayers and citizens who need their services.

However, this directly contradicts the Obama agenda of trying to blame the Republicans for Obama's sequester, because for voters to punish the Republicans for Obama's sequester, there has to be enough suffering for the mainstream media to cover.

From the Washington Times:

In the internal email, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service official Charles Brown said he asked if he could try to spread out the sequester cuts in his region to minimize the impact, and he said he was told not to do anything that would lessen the dire impacts Congress had been warned of.

“We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be,” Mr. Brown, in the internal email, said his superiors told him.

So, for those of you Obama voters sitting at home, unemployed, trying to find evidence that Obama cares about you, just think about the skyrocketing gas prices, the fact that there are no jobs available, and don't forget the record high stock market!
 Then reread the paragraph above.  Obama wants to make sure that you FEEL the sequester.  It needs to HURT.

That way, the press will blame the Republicans, and you'll believe it - and you'll be more likely to go to the polls in 2014 to solidify his power.

Obama: "I'm not a dictator"

Today, the WSJ points out a fascinating conversation between a CNN reporter and our President:

Yellin: Mr. President, to your question, what could you do--first of all, couldn't you just have them down here and refuse to let them leave the room until you have a deal?

Obama: I mean, Jessica, I am not a dictator. I'm the President. So, ultimately, if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say, we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway, right?

Why isn't Ms. Yellin asking the President to compromise?  Why isn't she urging him that any deal is better than inaction, even if he doesn't get what he wants?  Why isn't he being encouraged to 'move to the center'?

Well, it's because 'compromise' and 'move to the center' is code for 'do what the liberals want'.  Compromising with Republicans takes things in a direction that CNN finds totally unbearable.  Hence, the idea just never seems to come up.

Mayor Bloomberg thinks telecommuting is dumb

Thanks to NBC New York, we learn that Mayor Bloomberg thinks telecommuting is dumb.  Wow.  Let me make sure I understand the big picture here.

• Bloomberg taxes vehicles coming into the city, to reduce traffic, emissions, noise, and a lot of other things that are bad for people and nature.
• Bloomberg wants everyone who works for every New York company to come to the office.

No, that can't be right.  Maybe it's like this:

•  Bloomberg taxes vehicles coming into the city, to increase taxes. He does this under the auspice of reducing traffic, emissions, noise, and a lot of other things that are bad for people and nature.

• Bloomberg wants everyone who works for every New York company to come to the office, to maximize the taxes that are paid.

That actually makes sense. For a Democrat. How could this guy ever have been a Republican? I'm all for a big tent, but the Republican Party really needs a way to eject guys like him who are just nowhere near our part of the circus.