Who Bears Responsibliity for the Sequester Cuts?

Aaron Blake in the Washington Post assigns the blame (via Woodward et al) squarely on the shoulders of the Whitehouse for formulating the plan (though he mentions Republicans voted in larger numbers than Democrats to approve the President's plan).  It's curious how the president is still making denials of responsibility for the plan, in the face of numerous bi-partisan witnesses (and even a video tape with the President adamantly stating that he would veto any proposal to overturn the sequester if the budget cut conditions weren't met).  It's as if he has no respect for the average voters credulity.

Aaron Blake:
"Mitt Romney also tried to argue that the sequester was the president’s doing. “I will not cut our military budget by a trillion dollars, which is a combination of the budget cuts the president has, as well as the sequestration cuts,” Romney said. “That, in my view, is making — is making our future less certain and less secure.”
Obama responded: “First of all, the sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.”

So who is right?

 

Well, according to our Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward, the idea did in fact originate in the White House. Woodward’s book about the 2011 debt ceiling crisis says clearly that the idea originated inside the White House, and Woodward later said that Obama’s assertion that the idea was proposed by Congress was “not correct” and that “it’s refuted by the people who work for him.”
The Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, awarded Obama four Pinocchios for his claim — a rating that denotes “significant factual error and/or obvious contradictions."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/02/05/who-is-responsible-for-the-sequester/