Barack Obama rails against sequestration even though he signed it into law

 Back in August of 2011 Barack Obama signed sequestration into law in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, but now as sequestration inches closer to reality Barack Obama is claiming it will hurt the economy to allow the policies he supported to be allowed to go into effect, and he is calling on the Congress to protect America from his own policies while trying to deflect his decision back on the Congress.

  Here is what he is saying now:

I know that a full budget may not be finished before March 1 and, unfortunately, that’s the date when a series of harmful automatic cuts to job-creating investments and defense spending — also known as the sequester — are scheduled to take effect

So let me just repeat: Our economy right now is headed in the right direction, and it will stay that way as long as there aren’t any more self-inflicted wounds coming out of Washington. So let’s keep on chipping away at this problem together, as Democrats and Republicans, to give our workers and our businesses the support that they need to thrive in the weeks and months ahead

  It is clear to me that Barack Obama only asked for and signed these cuts into law as a means to kick the can down the road until after the presidential election of 2012. With that pesky little election out of the way he is now seeking to undo what he has done.

    The irony is not lost on at least one Republican:

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says the sequester was President Obama’s idea: “He proposed it and he insisted it be a part of the 2011 debt limit deal.  House Republicans have voted twice to replace the arbitrary and harmful sequestration cuts with targeted, common-sense spending reductions that do not threaten our national security. Unfortunately, Senate Democrats rejected those plans, offering no replacement solutions of their own.

“While it is encouraging to see that the president now agrees that his sequestration plan is ‘harmful’ and ‘economically damaging,’ his call for higher taxes on hard-working American families will only serve to discourage economic growth.”

   Barack Obama and the Democrats were forced into this situation because they have refused to pass a budget over the last four years and now Barack Obama has the audacity (of hope) to place the blame at the feet of the Congress?