If true, this is a good storyline: As the Sequester approaches, and Republicans finally get to slash the federal budget, half of them are sane enough to realize they look like idiots and the other half are too stupid to know they *are* idiots. Meanwhile, Democrats appear as responsible adults telling the GOP, "No, we are not going to fix your mess." This is Lawrence O'Donnell's take on the Sequester.
I'm skeptical. Simpson-Boles awaits in the wings so I suspect one way or another we'er going down the path of austerity. Either way, according to Krugman, austerity will only make the economy worse. Now that Obama has the GOP on the Sequester ropes, bets on that we'll see another eleventh hour "fiscal cliff" drama play out so that Obama gets to be a hero striking the Grand Bargain (that he wanted all along) when he pulls the Simpson-Boles rabbit out of the hat. Smart politics, yes, but very dumb for the country. Here's the article and O'Donnell video: "Obama has nothing to lose in the sequester negotiations. He gave the GOP everything they asked for, and have been asking for in their rhetoric for years. You ask an average Republican voter, they demand to slash government spending. The Sequester is just what they've been asking for, and now they are fighting it tooth and nail." http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/26/the-sequester-how-obama-outfoxed-the-entire-gop-leadership-video/
