Like the little boy who cried wolf, the White House has decided that if there isn’t a crisis, you can create one and take advantage of it. That sums up President Obama’s approach to the looming sequestration.
To hear Mr. Obama describe it, one might be led to believe that come Saturday, America will be in an episode of “Survivor” — without teachers, firefighters, air-traffic controllers, etc. The president’s antics might make for funny reality TV, but the underlying scare tactics belie reality and are truly beneath the dignity of a serious debate.
Mr. President, whether you padlock our national parks, parade our preschoolers out of Head Start, send our air-traffic controllers home or promise longer lines at the airline TSA checkpoints, grandstanding isn’t problem-solving.
To be sure, the indiscriminate sequester reductions make little sense. That’s why, despite the president’s threats to veto any attempt to alter sequestration, House Republicans have twice passed and sent the Senate legislation to make alternative savings in government spending. What the president refuses to understand is this is a matter of priorities. All government spending is not created equal. Some spending, like protecting our nation’s security and honoring our commitments to our veterans and Social Security recipients, are truly more important than other spending, like presidential vacations to Hawaii, Aspen, Martha’s Vineyard and Palm Beach.
With the already-once-delayed sequestration scheduled to kick in Friday, the only solution the president seems willing to embrace is taking more from hardworking taxpayers so the federal government can keep spending.
In February, Mr. Obama decided that it was more important to put millions on the taxpayers’ tab to golf with Tiger Woods while his family skied in Aspen than it was to stay in Washington and work with Congress to address a “crisis” of his own making.
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