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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]poster at 8:53:"Morning Joe hosts were even talking about how crazy Bob Woodward is looking right now."

I assume you are being facetious.  The hosts and panelists all seemed to think that the White House and, especially David Pflouffe(sp?) were way out of line on this.
A threat-like bullying-is in the eyes of the receiver.  After a thirty minute phone call receiving an email with "you're going to regret this" would be intimidating to anyone.  Politico-far from a conservative website- looked at Woodward's sources on the sequestration and agrees that it was the White House idea.

Are the Republicans also guilty in this whole mess? Of course.  But the White House storyboard was that the sequestration was the GOP idea.  It was not.

WH needs to be more careful with its storyboarding--like Duncan saying that pink slips had already been sent out, etc.  Exaggeration is one thing-lying is another.[/quote]

You are mixing up a lot of issues. The White House is not saying the sequester was a Republican idea. Given that the Republican-majority House with the support of Speaker Boehner passed the bill, as did the Democratic Senate, and it was signed into law by Obama, the White House is simply saying it is not fair to call it Obama's plan. Both sides agreed to it, but now the Republicans are running from responsibility.

The issue with Woodward is different. Woodward now claims that Obama did not included revenue proposals in the negotiations that led to the sequester deal. That is simply false and the proof that it is false is in Woodward's own book. At the time of the debt ceiling negotiations, Obama wanted both revenues and cuts. Boehner wouldn't agree to revenues. The deal upon which they agreed included cuts and the sequester. Now, the choice is between the sequester and a replacement for the sequester. Obama wants revenues as part of the replacement. That is not "moving the goalposts" as Woodward would have it. That is simply returning to the same position Obama held during the negotiations that led to the sequester agreement.

If Woodward feels threatened by being told by Gene Sperling that he would regret taking that position -- a position that could be illustrated as false by Woodward's own book, he needs to get into another business. As one analyst pointed out on Twitter this morning: "Sperling makes Erza Klein look like The Hulk on meth."[/quote]

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