While you weren’t looking, we put together a handy guide to the confusing debate over sequestration.
The short version is that partisan whining about how the sequester came into existence is a huge distraction from the more important, though badly misrepresented, fight over how to replace it. And both threads point away from the basic question of what the sequester is, how it works, and why it ought to be avoided.
Enjoy.
As I’ve noted in a series of posts, after speaking to numerous people who’ve been associated with Ted Cruz over the last quarter century, I’ve been struck by how unanimous the opinion of him as been at basically every step. But I did get this note from one close observer which, while not terribly different from the others, points to how powerful a political force Cruz could still be.
From TPM Reader XX …
You’re probably getting a lot of feedback about Cruz about now. He wasn’t a shrinking violet in college.
I knew Cruz through the college debate circuit. He was a top-flight debater.
Arrogant? Sure. I always chalked it up to deep confidence, but being in the law for as long as he has would probably coagulate that into arrogance.
DC press so bored by sequester stand-off, now reduced to writing articles about how overwhelming public support may backfire on the President.
On the brink of being gutted by the Supreme Court, we look at how the Voting Rights Act changed America.