They managed to get the Senate to publish a budget. Haven’t yet gotten the same from the Executive branch.
A little bit of tactical progress.
This is definitely not the “end of the beginning” to paraphrase Churchill.
As small as the victory was on sequester it was a HUGE STEP for the Republican leadership.
Without a doubt, their gay consultants (that he Republicans always seem to find) told them that they would get “creamed” by Obama on sequester - and, for once, they didn’t listen to them. But these SAME gay consultants are also telling them that they need to get gay marriage “behind them”, and the gay consultants do seem to be getting their way here.
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Mehlman