>>There's a context here that cannot be avoided. Barack Obama consistently takes specific actions knowing it will set a chain of events that eventually allows him to rip the Republican party in the press. He knew sequestration and the government shutdown would allow him to score points because he knew how the Republican party would react. Basically, this is political sucker-punching. (Although now, it's clearly blown up in his face).
How do you know all this about the President? At face value it seems to be supposition expressed as undeniable fact and then used as the foundation for more "fact."
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
