Late Monday night seven U.S. Marines were killed in a training accident at the Hawthorne, Nev., Army Depot.

How did the Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, the senator from Nevada, honor these fallen Marines? He stood in the Senate and blamed not George W. Bush, the perennial villain, but the newly crowned whipping boy, sequestration.

This is the same sequestration that was the brainchild of President Barack Obama. The sequestration that cut 2 percent of the 5 percent growth proposed for the next fiscal year. The sequestration that amounted to all of $85 billion in a budget of $1.4 trillion. How can this man retain any credibility?

Is this the new talking point for the Obama administration, and how many others will use the same rhetoric?

Like the ex-presidential chief of staff, now mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, once said, "never let a crisis go to waste" or in this case, never let seven dead Marines go to waste.

Wake up to the trickery and deceit that some elected officials use, on a daily basis, to fool the American people.