In a sharply written statement, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama blasts President Obama for campaigning and not governing. He calls Obama's response to the sequestration "the most cynical behavior I have seen during my time in Washington." Adds the senator, "Replacing the sequester would require the President to save $85 billion out of a $3,500 billion federal budget. One would think that any President would leap at the opportunity to make government more effective and responsive. But what does the President do instead? He says Republicans are cutting vital services for children in order to benefit the well-off and well-connected. This has been the strategy now for years: block any attempt to reform the government and then relentlessly attack the reformers. Does any lawmaker, reporter, or citizen believe that the only way to save taxpayer dollars is to hurt children, that every government program is effective and helpful and not one penny is wasted?" Sessions is the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee. "While the White House operatives may think this attack is clever, it betrays an astonishing elitism: the federal government is perfect and requires no reform. That is why they have no plan to make our government leaner and more efficient. The President had 18 months to develop reforms to improve the government, but instead he announced furloughs of federal workers as a political cudgel. Yet, his golf weekend at the yacht club with Tiger Woods cost taxpayers over a million dollars enough money to save 341 federal workers from furlough," Sessions writes. "These workers know firsthand how much waste and inefficiency exists in the government. Our Budget Committee office will look for a way to solicit federal employees to send suggestions for how to save money in their departments, agencies, and divisions. What is better? To furlough someone or to empower them to make their office more efficient? - See more at: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...s-furloughed_704915.html#sthash.R9d2FFuG.dpuf
But Obama is ENTITLED. When you're ENTITLED nobody can stop you from getting your stuff. Just ask Jesse Jackoff.
It's going to really suck for him when he has to leave the WH. Sure he'll get rich off of speaking engagements but he'll be a nothing and a nobody out of the limelight. What will he do for the rest of his life : build habitat for humanity houses? If he thinks he will be remembered for sagacity like Bill Clinton, he's an idiot.
Yes, Jesse Jr will be getting lots of free stuff - free housing and free food and free medical for a while.