23 Feb 2013 12:56 pm
Conservative Media Ignore Obama's Sequester PlanConservative media are attacking President Obama for supposedly criticizing scheduled across-the-board cuts, known as the sequester, while not proposing alternatives to avoid them. In reality, Obama has proposed a plan to replace the sequester that includes over $930 billion in spending cuts and $580 billion in new tax revenue.NYT's David Brooks: "[Obama] Hasn't Actually Come Up With A Proposal To Avert Sequestration."Fox and Friends' Steve Doocy: "The President Has Zero Plan."Fox Guest Marc Thiessen: The President Has Not "Proposed Any Alternative Cuts The Way The Republicans Did" To Avoid The Sequester."But Obama Has Proposed A Specific Plan To Replace The Sequester ...(Read more at the link in the title.)It's not just the Conservative Media that is promoting this lie.It's also people like House Speaker Boehner and House Majority Leader Cantor.I guess they don't know how to use the Google.A Balanced Plan to Avert the Sequester and Reduce the Deficit