{"id":31932,"date":"2012-09-09T07:42:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31932"},"modified":"2012-09-09T07:42:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T11:42:45","slug":"romney-gop-and-white-house-wrong-on-sequestration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31932","title":{"rendered":"Romney: GOP and White House wrong on sequestration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that Mitt Romney said yesterday that he believes that Obama was wrong to propose sequestration on defense cuts, but the Republican leaders were just as wrong to accept the White House proposal;<\/p>\n

The automatic spending cuts take effect on Jan. 2 and are the result of last year\u2019s debt deal, which laid out major broad cuts split between both defense and domestic spending, known as sequesters, unless the deficit super committee had been able to come up with a replacement agreement. That committee failed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree completely. It was the cowards’ way out of the budget problem in an election year. But then so was depending on a “super committee” to tag budget items to cut. <\/p>\n

For his part, Mr. Romney has said he opposed both the sequesters and Mr. Obama\u2019s cuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to maintain defense spending at the current level of the GDP. I don\u2019t want to keep bringing it down as the president\u2019s doing,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s why this administration needs to be stopped now before we’re saddled with defense spending increases in the future to make up for what this administration plans to cut.<\/p>\n

Yes, everyone knows where the Defense Department can cut waste, but you can bet that is not what is going to be cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times reports that Mitt Romney said yesterday that he believes that Obama was wrong … Romney: GOP and White House wrong on sequestration<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-mitt-romneypaul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}