{"id":1256,"date":"2013-03-06T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2013-03-06T17:47:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T22:47:40","slug":"white-house-cries-wolf-3-times-in-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"White House \u2018Cries Wolf\u2019 3 Times In 10 days"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 WASHINGTON (CBSDC\/AP)<\/strong> \u2014 The Obama administration has incorrectly stated on three separate occasions the effect of the $85 billion in sequester cuts.<\/p>\n

CBS News reports that the statements came over the past 10 days.<\/p>\n

The first time came Feb. 24 when Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on \u201cFace the Nation\u201d that teachers were getting fired because of the cuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can\u2019t come back this fall,\u201d Duncan said. He later backtracked, saying he \u201cmisspoke\u201d when no evidence was found to his claim.<\/p>\n

When President Obama held a press conference about the sequester cuts on Friday, the president said that janitors at the U.S. Capitol would have to receive a pay cut. CBS News reports that Carlos Elias, the superintendent of the U.S. Capitol building and the Capitol Visitors Center, had to email his employees after Obama\u2019s statement saying it wasn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n

Then, this past Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that lines at airports grew by 200 percent at checkpoint lines, but those claims were also unfounded.<\/p>\n

Despite the misstatements, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says there are efforts \u201cto muddy\u201d the facts of what the sequester cuts mean.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]here are real people out there who will be delayed or who will have their wages cut or \u2026 who will lose their jobs as a result of the sequester, while folks in Washington are arguing over whether this particular impact happened when we said it was going to happen or a week later or a month later,\u201d Carney said during Tuesday\u2019s White House briefing.<\/p>\n

Dan Schnur, Sen. John McCain\u2019s former communication director, said these statements will create a \u201cskeptical\u201d view of the White House<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s more than a little bit of a White House-who-cried-wolf danger that\u2019s beginning to emerge,\u201d Schnur told CBS News. \u201cIf the sequester does eventually cause serious inconvenience or real pain to many people, these overstatements may not have much of a long-term impact. But in the short run, it makes the voters more skeptical as to whether the administration is being honest with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sequester cuts became official March 1 after Obama and congressional lawmakers failed to reach a deal to reduce the national deficit. The $85 billion in federal budget cuts will take place over the next six months.<\/p>\n

According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the sequester cuts could mean 750,000 jobs lost by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

The sequester cuts [that Obama came up with<\/em>] became official March 1 after Obama and congressional lawmakers failed to reach a deal to reduce the national deficit. The $85 billion in federal budget cuts will take place over the next six months.<\/p>\n

According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the sequester cuts could mean 750,000 jobs lost by the end of the year. [Of course this job loss is because Obama and democrats want this to be painful so they get political gain from it.\u00a0 See the leaked letter from the White House<\/a>].<\/p>\n

(TM and \u00a9 Copyright 2013 CBS Radio Inc.)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 WASHINGTON (CBSDC\/AP) \u2014 The Obama administration has incorrectly stated on three separate occasions the effect of the $85 billion in sequester cuts. CBS News reports that the statements came over the past 10 days. The first time came Feb. 24 when Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on \u201cFace the Nation\u201d that teachers were … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[415,412,413,414],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-obama-cries-wolf","tag-obama-lied-again","tag-obama-lies","tag-white-house-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/patrioticfederalist.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}