The sequester process will set into motion what I like to call the old “parade of horribles” routine. The administration will choose the most politically controversial cuts they can, then try to blame them on the GOP.
I’m reminded of a little kid back in the 50’s. He’d been one of the last polio victims, and lived in an iron lung. Every time there was a proposal to cut back some bureaucrat’s limo costs, it always transmogrified into shutting off poor little Johnny’s iron lung. The little sucker kept discovering a new threat to his life every time the legislature proposed a common sense cost reduction.
So, really, there’ll be an extensive effort to cast the cuts in the most egregious manner possible. Whether even that won’t provoke the majority of the public to give a damn is an open question.
Its already started. The news is reporting it as such.
But unlike the tax cut extension battle which the GOP had zero chance of what was defined as them winning, it will effect a limited number of people.
I live in MD and am hearing some whining, but the Feds are spending so such $$$ now its like a drop.