The media is all about gearing up for the next election immediately, 2008 was got going too early and it hurt Hilliary, 2012 election the republican had too many debates and were campaigning for what seemed like 3 years.
I say a year and a half is it for presidential campaigns
I'm more of libertarian IMO the power grabs going on since Reagan are getting increasing scary. primarily because the technology is catching up to the Orwellian predictions.
The police would love to have a constant flock of drones circling constantly over head then they'd would never have to go to work , point and click policing. Politicians would love it too, I'm a little worried the east coast population centers have strayed too far from the main stream America and are too eager to force through a lot of plans what nobody has considered the consequences of. The same minds who brought us 16 trillion dollars in debt, a weakening economy and dollar and the geniuses who completely fumbled sequestration. I actually blame Obama for sequestration he failed to lead and avoid it and did all kind of thing to prevent the law being followed by complained who were supposed to warn their employees they could be laid off.
Both Rebup and Dems had tough plan to avoid it as best they could and no body had the guts to do it and the one person who should have been in front leading sat back saying its a "Congressional problem", really and the law Obama make with out congressional consent , the people who tried to sneak in and judges he ignores are not a congressional problem, the one thing where he could have put together a deal on and be a hero he doesn't bother with because he and a lot of other politicians in both parties want it to happen.
During the campaign some of the numbers Obama was bragging about were if sequestration happened. Alot of repubs are just as happy to let it happen.
One thing important not to forget is sequestration idea came from the white house they'd like to say mean old repubs and blue dog dems were behind it but to me the man responsible even if it was a congressional problem is Obama. I can't help but feel if Romney had been elected a deal would be done, not because one party woudl suddenly get it in gear and work on the problem but because it would be a priority with Romney and it woudl be a bad deal but it'd get done.
Woodward’s book “The Price of Politics” has been the go-to fact check source for the president’s answer, in which he claimed the idea of using deep, automatic, across-the-board domestic and defense spending cuts to force Congress to address the nation’s burgeoning federal deficit originated from Congress, not from the White House.
“What the president said is not correct,” Woodward told POLITICO Tuesday. “He’s mistaken. And it’s refuted by the people who work for him.”
Woodward, a Washington Post journalist who was a key reporter on the initial coverage of the Watergate scandal, said he stands behind his reporting in the book, which drew upon sources involved in last year’s deficit talks and detailed notes taken in the meetings.
Woodward reports in his book that White House Office of Management Director Jack Lew and Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors took the proposal for sequestration to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and then it was presented to congressional Republicans.
During the debate, however, Obama said the idea originated on Capitol Hill.
“First of all, the sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed,” Obama said, adding his strongest pronouncement to date on its future: “It will not happen.”
Woodward said there’s a possibility the president was unaware of how the idea came about.
“It’s a complicated process — and in fairness to the president — maybe he didn’t know that they were doing this because it’s kind of technical budget jargon,” Woodward said.
“What I wrote — it’s specific date, time, place, participants,” he said. “What I’ve reported is totally accurate. Call Nabors and Lew. Or ask the White House. I mean, they know that’s accurate.”
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It's over. Lunacy has become the norm 
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/26/i ... d-in-ohio/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUuLzFCgS2w "Obama won by re-energizing his base. The CNN exit polls showed registered Democrats turned out in greater numbers than registered Republicans in battlegrounds Ohio and Florida. The exit polls also said white evangelical turnout in Virginia was down 7% from 2008, and Romney did not improve evangelical turnout in Florida from four years ago while losing about 40,000 votes to libertarian Gary Johnson.
