[upchuck]

Though there is a concerted effort to blame the president for the sequester, no amount of whitewashing can erase the fact that many conservative members of Congress voted for this plan.

Carefully constructed weasel words.

Bob Woodward sez the sequester came straight from the White House. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bob-woodward-obamas-sequester-deal-changer/2013/02/22/c0b65b5e-7ce1-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_print.html

[patton]

Did the democrat senate vote for this plan, or is the author somehow trying to whitewash that little factiod?

Did the democrat president sign it into law, or is that to be whitewasged over, too?

Nah, somehow it was the evil conservatives, I tell you.