No, consistency does not matter
by digby
… to Republicans. It’s simply foolish to hang your hats on the fact that they are hypocrites and will be revealed as such to the nation. They don’t care, and neither does at least half the country:
Americans For Prosperity, a conservative group funded by the Koch brothers, is echoing the GOP narrative that sequestration cuts are largely President Obama’s fault. Back in March, AFP struck a different tone on sequestration, claiming it would help the economy.
“By no means is the sequester perfect, but we must begin acting now to rein in this wasteful prosperity killer,” AFP President Tim Phillips wrote in USA Today. “Making these modest reductions to government overspending is an important first step.”
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In the weeks leading up to the sequester, AFP repeatedly urged Republicans to let it take effect, contradicting much of the economic field’s warnings against it.
Here they are today:
Maybe this will all blow back on them. But in the next election, the president will not be on the ballot and there will not be a national campaign. The Koch Brothers will be saying whatever they want in millions of dollars of ads and nobody will know or care that they once said the opposite. Banking on the American people to be able to sort all this out and declare the adult in the room the winner is a very big bet.
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