Carney on furloughs and flight delays: Hey, don't say we didn't warn you
The link is the exact title of the piece at Hot Air, which I have left unchanged because it makes me laugh.
Yeah, you warned us about a lot of stuff, Jay. Fewer cops, defense cuts, less for "the children," dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria, etc.
In the meantime, we've seen no abatement in the first family's vacation schedule, no paring back on gala balls at the White House, and, perhaps most amusingly no cuts whatsoever in the Department of Homeland Security Bagpipe Corps (Now that one I don't mind so much, because Lord knows how I like to hear a piper play Amazing Grace when I'm getting fondled by the TSA). Sure the White House tours were cancelled, but hey. Obama took a 5% pay cut. So, even Steven, I guess.
Seriously. Anyone with half a clue would have given up by now on these feeble attempts to make the public "feel the pain" of sequestration. The White House should have learned its lesson after the tour cancellation fiasco. The FAA furloughs are going to play much worse. Contrary to the President's assumption, people are not going to blame Congress for delayed flights; voters are going to blame the guy who could pick up the phone and tell Ray LaHood to get the air traffic controllers back on the job. Obama doesn't have to stand for re-election, but a lot of vulnerable democrats do--next year. There is speculation that the Senate may flip. I suspect that very soon, Harry Reid will be begging the President to put an end to this latest petty pageantry and get things back to normal, stat.
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