White House: Ok, yes, the sequester was our idea

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The White House, which has been serially misrepresenting the origin of the sequester, was finally forced to admit that the spending cut mechanism was in fact its own idea, though not without a fair amount of tooth-pulling by NBC’s David Gregory:

From the transcript of Gregory’s Meet The Press interview today with White House economic adviser Gene Sperling (All emphasis added):

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