WAPO BUSTS WHITE HOUSE IN ANOTHER SEQUESTER LIE. This reminds of of one of Aesop’s fables.
The President Who Cried Sequester
There once was a man named Obama who was bored as he sat on Capitol Hill watching the village sheeple. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, “Sequester! Sequester! The sequester is going to cause massive problems for you sheeple!”
The villagers came running up Capitol Hill to help Obama drive the sequester away. But when they arrived at the top of Capitol Hill, they found no sequester problems. Obama laughed at the sight of their angry faces.
“Don’t cry ‘sequester’, Obama,” said the villagers, “when there are no sequester problems!” They went grumbling back down Capitol Hill.
Later, Obama sang out again, “Sequester! Sequester! The sequester is causing massive airport delays for the sheeple!” To his naughty delight, he watched the villagers run up Capitol Hill to help him drive the sequester away.
When the villagers saw no airport delays they sternly said, “Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don’t cry ‘sequester’ when there are NO sequester problems!”
But Obama just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more, then headed for the golf course.
Later, he saw REAL sequester problems that would affect his flock. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, “Sequester! Sequester!”
But the villagers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn’t come.
At sunset, everyone wondered why Obama hadn’t returned. They went up Capitol Hill to find Obama. They found him weeping.
“There really was a sequester here! Michelle can’t go on vacation! Biden has to take AMTRAK! I have actually PAY for my golf games! I can’t go on endless campaign trips and have to stay in Washington, DC! I cried out, Sequester! Why didn’t you come?”
And the moral to the story? “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln.
