In a move rife with politics (and no sense what-so-ever) the Obama administration has seen fit to release over 2,000 illegal aliens on an unsuspecting US population.

The strategy, of course, is to make the states, particularly the red ones like Arizona, suffer as much as possible in this manufactured sequester crisis. If things are going too well, then the White House wants to ratchet it up: don’t send a needed aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf, release prisoners, slow airport lines, and close White House tours. Any dire consequence that can be laid at the sequester will be considered.

It’s time for Obama to start acting like a leader.

There are some obvious areas he could cut expenses at no pain to the American taxpayer. For openers he has added over 200,000 federal jobs since occupying the White House. If he cut those in half we could save $10 billion a year. How about cutting or stopping foreign aid? Giving money to a hostile state like Egypt is patently ridiculous. Then there’s smaller things like having both Obamas on the same Air Force 1 for their luxury vacations. Maybe we could save enough gas to fuel that aircraft carrier.

Of course doing any of these things would not further Obama’s agenda for 2014. He’s hoping to move enough Republicans out so he won’t be held accountable for anything. Ever. Then we will really see a spending crisis.

Denny Andrews, Bellevue