Everyone has been wondering how the public will react to the sequester. The American people are in the position of hostages who’ll have to decide who the hostage-taker is. People will get mad at either the president or the Republicans in Congress. That anger will force one side to rethink or back down. Or maybe the public will get mad at both.
The White House is, as always, confident of its strategy: Scare people as much as possible and let the media take care of the rest. Maybe there will be a lot to report, maybe not, but either way the sobbing child wanting to go to Head Start and the anxious FAA bureaucrat worried about airplane maintenance will be found. This will surely have power.
And in truth, the sequester’s impact may be bad. Rep. Maxine Waters of California, a 22-year House veteran and ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee, this week warned of “over 170 million jobs that could be lost.” That’s actually more jobs than America has, and it’s little comfort to say, “But she’s a famous idiot,” because Washington is actually full of famous idiots who are making serious decisions about how the sequester cuts are to be applied.
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