During the State of The Union Address President Obama said the Sequester was a “really Bad Idea” apparently unaware his press secretary Jay Carney had told Fox News’ Bret Baier it was in fact his idea

Jay Carney: What I will concede is that we were looking and the Republicans were looking for a trigger around which to build the mechanism to get us out of default possibility and the sequester was one of the ideas yes put forward, yes, by the president’s team.