The ongoing feud between Bob Woodward and the White House started last weekend after the veteran journalist—and committed liberal—wrote an article exposing the lies President Obama has repeated often during the sequestration battle.

“The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed,” Mr. Obama insisted during his presidential debate with Mitt Romney on October 22.

But as Woodward reported in The Price of Politics, a book published in September of last year, White House aides Jack Lew and Rob Nabors originally outlined the plan for sequestration two years ago. President Obama signed off on their proposal and then the White House submitted the sequestration proposal to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on July 27, 2011. After that, Congress enacted sequester legislation and President Obama signed the bill into law that summer.

The bill was supposed to force Republicans and Democrats to find common ground on a new budget deal before the mandatory sequester cuts would kick in. Of course, these “cuts” only represent a slight reduction in planned spending increases. Either way, with or without the “cuts,” the federal government will spend more money this year than it did last year.

But back to 2011. As part of the sequester deal between the White House and Congress, Republicans agreed to raise the debt ceiling high enough to ensure that a budget battle wouldn’t become a political hot-potato during the 2012 election. And in return for the debt-ceiling favor, the White House promised it would not raise taxes as a substitute for the sequester “crisis.”

So for the president to now propose a substitute that includes spending cuts and higher taxes, he is, as Woodward charged last week, “moving the goal posts.” And in doing so, he has used numerous speeches and staged events in recent weeks to try to frighten Americans into pressuring Republicans to cave in and raise taxes.

In a speech on February 19, for example, President Obama said the sequester “cuts” would degrade the ability of emergency responders to react to disasters. fbi agents would be furloughed. There would be fewer border patrol agents to prevent illegal immigration. Federal prosecutors would be forced to free criminals. Cutbacks at airports would lead to extended delays for travelers. Thousands of teachers and educators would be laid off. Tens of thousands of parents would lose childcare services. Hundreds of thousands would lose access to health care. And hundreds of thousands more would lose their jobs.

Even the threat of sequester, the president gravely warned, had “forced” the Navy to not deploy the U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf!

That comment prompted the 69-year-old Woodward to tell msnbc that he hadn’t seen this kind of “madness” coming out of the White House in a long time. Then he claimed to have been threatened over his column. According to Woodward, a White House official said he would “regret” making the “goal posts” comment.

The White House responded by pushing back hard against Woodward—and with helpful assistance from its friends in the media. The liberal left seemed almost giddy about throwing one of its founding fathers under the bus in order to provide cover for the lies coming out of the White House.

Yesterday, after last-minute attempts to avoid sequester had failed, President Obama said, “[L]et’s be clear. None of this is necessary. It’s happening because a choice that Republicans in Congress have made. They’ve allowed these cuts to happen because they refuse to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit” (emphasis added throughout).

It’s the same lie that was made during the debate with Mitt Romney, when the president said the sequester was a Republican brainchild. “It is something Congress has proposed,” he insisted. “It will not happen.”

And yet, the very next day—hours after that debate concluded—in an off-the-record interview with the Des Moines Register, President Obama actually took credit for the sequester and even anticipated it being “in place”!

“[W]hen you combine the Bush tax cuts expiring, the sequester in place, the commitment of both myself and my opponent—at least Governor Romney claims that he wants to reduce the deficit—but we’re going to be in a position where I believe in the first six months we are going to solve that big piece of business.”

It’s all going according to the plan the White House outlined in 2011. And in the end, no matter how many lies are exposed along the way, the radical leftist administration in the White House will end up with what it has wanted all along—higher taxes and increased deficit spending.

America is under attack—and the attack is coming from within, as my father explained in his Web Exclusive last week.

Be sure to watch that video, embedded above, and then watch this week’s Key of David program, “Abandon the Constitution?”