{"id":1250,"date":"2013-03-06T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2013-03-06T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T16:31:23","slug":"more-hussein-bullcrap-at-americas-expense-make-it-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"More Hussein Bullcrap At America’s Expense – Make It Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

A leaked email from an Agriculture<\/em><\/strong> Department field officer adds fuel to claims President Obama’s political strategy is to make the billions in recent federal budget cuts as painful as possible to win the public opinion battle against Republicans.<\/p>\n

The email, circulated around Capitol Hill, was sent Monday by Charles Brown, a director at the agency\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C. He appears to tell his regional team about a response to his recent question on the amount of latitude he has in making cuts.<\/p>\n

According to the partially redacted email<\/a>, the response came from the Agriculture Department\u2019s budget office and in part states: \u201cHowever you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The response noted that the administration had already told Congress that the APHIS would \u201celiminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry\u201d without additional funds.<\/p>\n

Arkansas Republican Rep. Tim Griffin said the administration\u2019s response to Brown\u2019s email shows a bid to undermine efforts to replace the cuts, known as sequester, with less onerous ones.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis email confirms what many Americans have suspected: The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the sequester cuts for political gain,\u201d Griffin said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Griffin told Fox News on Wednesday that the bosses effectively said, \u201cyou can\u2019t do anything that is inconsistent with the negative impact that we\u2019ve told everybody these cuts are going to have.\u201d<\/p>\n

An Agriculture Department spokesman said Wednesday that Brown’s suggestions had already been included in the agency’s sequestration plan and in the administration’s fiscal 2013 budget.<\/p>\n

Under the 2011 deal reached by Obama and Congress, the cuts are supposed to be across the board, meaning government officials have limited flexibility in moving around money.<\/p>\n

The administration in recent weeks has made doomsday predictions about the impact of the cuts. And the White House so far has appeared unwilling to accept a Republican offer to give the president more autonomy in making the cuts, covering $85 billion this fiscal year, to help reduce the impact on some of the most essential or hardest-hit programs or agencies.<\/p>\n

Some political strategists say the president hopes the cuts hurt enough to compel Republican lawmakers seeking re-election next year to end them by agreeing to more tax increases.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Gene Sperling, the White House\u2019s top economic adviser, suggested Republicans would indeed make this decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope is, as more Republicans start to see this pain in their own districts, they will choose bipartisan compromise over this absolutist position,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, during a House hearing Tuesday, was asked by South Dakota Republican Rep. Kristi Noem about the Brown email.<\/p>\n

Vilsack said he was unaware of the email, but denied the administration has a policy of being inflexible and maximizing the cuts\u2019 impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that we\u2019ve said no to flexibility,\u201d Vilsack said. \u201cBut there are certain circumstances where we don\u2019t have flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hopeful that isn\u2019t an agenda that has been put forward,” Noem said.<\/p>\n

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Published March 06, 2013<\/p>\n

FoxNews.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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