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Tara Dowdell and Jim Pinkerton discuss outrage over the sequester and what is fair criticism
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-- and raving and then that is -- more measured criticism on the canceling of the White House who has and that kind of thing because all of the sequester.
Is that criticism -- or is it just -- inevitable result of the politicians throughout Friday only to take my word for when Jonathan -- of ABC news makes continent and says that in the middle of all this budget cuts -- that you still managed to find twenty cars taken -- a motorcade goes to sparks.
That the mockery of the mainstream media.
I don't think they're it's they went into the -- -- a month ago thinking they'd end up making fun of the Obama administration.
But dean claims have been so over the top in terms of you know -- the whole world will collapses -- And now they get in this petty stuff like -- closing down the White House quarters and I think reporters are saying look you know we're gonna call you know what on this you know millions of -- -- asked.
And and not go to get along with that I think that's why do that the administration has she done 180 and are now -- dinner with the senators who have -- from -- Hampshire Dick Cheney and -- be butchered -- -- -- enough.
Coming on.
As president tries to get back and some negotiating mode of the Republican.
And the idea is is it kind of a blunder on that pop -- to allow things like the White House to us to shut down and shutting down.
The people's house.
-- as Jim says.
Motorcade now president is need motorcades president's always go and play golf.
They did not not none of that is necessarily new.
But it's not this modest.
Politics right now is it.
-- I think from a visual standpoint of course when the president has his motorcade the Republicans have chosen to make a big deal about.
Everything that he does as it relates to vacationing or playing -- war spending time with his children he apparently takes too much time off.
Which that the Republicans continue to make an issue of I think it's.
Patently unfair because -- in mind anyone else taking a vacation playing golf for John Boehner playing golf.
But I do think what I find most ironic though Jonathan is that people are so -- raised about the closing.
Of the White House tours when their defense cuts that -- help hurt military families.
There's so many things that are in this sequester that are far more damaging to our economy and to small business owners and people outraged about the White House tours.
I kind of feel like that's kind of where we've got a little easing in the barracks and we talk a lot about.
This -- about the media.
And we often criticize certain sections of the media.
For concentrating.
Or focusing on the small things.
Rather -- the bigger issues is this is this a vice president thing here whether the media is wrong to focus on something like -- white as it was or is it emblematic of the bigger house I rarely missed a chance to criticize the media.
I'm not bad and maybe you're right it may look -- probably is more important that the people again my job.
Somewhere it was more consequential.
But the media I get that that the issue is how they Obama administration handled this and they miscalculated this is it -- -- the -- -- -- in the -- speaker -- got to say hey look we just at a Minnesota Arthur's.
Yeah you know we -- the secret in Washington is.
Fit every every Smart bureaucrat I mean has accomplished every why is intelligent experienced here that knows how to save money -- because these kind of things of that the micro level capital time.
If you're you're latency gets appropriation -- -- department wants him or something so in any given moment there's a rainy day fund it tucked away here in there and a bureaucrat who cares about his job and his duties to the public will say listen of course we can save money from that little fun that -- -- look really know about.
I was not corrupt as a sort of good management decisions.
Good portfolio handling.
And that's with -- that's what they did and I think the White House was counting on the FAA you know she'd make sure their plans rationally -- departure -- head of the buffalo all -- ran across and stampeded Denver.
As it happens it.
