Why would I pay much attention to it? No one else is (despite the best efforts of banner lead stories from the likes of the Kansas City Star, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc., etc.). One poll from recent days (link below) found that "barely one in four Americans said they'd heard much about the automatic spending cuts" known as "sequester" and set to take effect starting March 1.
The cuts reportedly amount to only 2.5% of the huge annual federal budget deficit this year (meaning they would cut merely into the additional spending scheduled to be added to such deficit) and are but a microscopic drop of piss in an Alabama shithouse towards a balanced annual budget -- let alone any impact on the massive $16.5 trillion national debt.
By all accounts, Obama (whose idea the "sequester" was in the first place in 2011) has been almost exclusively focused in recent weeks on politicking and trying to blame the "sequester" on gop-ers before the fact and trying to scare people about its impact, instead of spending even an ounce of time on trying to reach a deal with gop-ers to avert the automatic spending cuts.
But most Americans, it seems, are growing tired of these "sky is falling," so-called "crises" every several months from Obama and are paying little attention. And good for them. Typically what results from these "crises" is very little or no actual cuts in spending, coupled with punting debt issues down the road.
And regardless of whether "sequester" comes to fruition or is averted, we'll have the same result again: Nothing in the way of meaningful spending cuts. So at the end of the day: I couldn't care less what happens on Friday. You may not even see me featuring "sequester" again as a main blog topic (tonight as the one and only). To repeat, sorry Barry: You're now really boring us over here.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/02/president-obama-faces-cliff-fatigue-in-latest-budget-fight/
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