[TheRealThing]

^The Washington republicans have said that they like the sequestration. You can't blame spending cuts on democrats, that's your guys motto.

Well, I'm happy to see that we agree on that. You're oh so right, democrats will never agree to any spending cuts, that's acid sure.

Republicans do in fact like the sequester. Like the joke about the moonshiners goes, when each of them held a gun on the other and ordered him to take a drink, LOL. Because as you so rightly point out, democrats were in lockstep in their opposition to any spending cuts, (the true reason why Harry Reid won't allow a budget bill to come on the floor BTW), and at the time, the sequester was the only way to get any cuts. In fact, to this day it has remained the only way to get any cuts, albeit amid the democrat's daily howling about them. Every body from Barney Frank to Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer to the president himself, politicize the sequester cuts every day and use each opportunity to slam republicans about it.

I look for republicans to take democrats on more often frankly. Senator Grassley and Chuck Schumer's exchange in hearing was a good example of that. Schumer openly accused republicans and Grassley in particular of using the Boston Marathon Bombings as a method to derail immigration reform for possibly years into the future. All Grassley was saying was that there had been no appreciable floor debate with regard to the 900 page document. Possibly with adequate debate, we can avoid the same sort of cul-de-sac, of which we are beset, as the result of rushing and ramming ObamaCare through.

No, the sequester was Obama's idea, Carney and others have admitted that after being cornered with their own video taped comments on the matter. He rolled the dice, wrongly assuming that he could break the will of republicans yet again. Who, to their credit, stuck to their guns and called his hand. So, to his chagrin, Obama was the unwitting catalyst for the spending cuts achieved to date. Will we see any more? Well, let's see if he has any more brain storms like the sequester.