"This week gave us a textbook case of why Americans hate Washington.
The nation was on the verge of a financial shock — an entirely avoidable shock that policymakers themselves set in motion — but all people in this town wanted to talk about was whether Gene Sperling threatened Bob Woodward.
...This set Washington abuzz, debating whether the White House invented the sequester (it did) and whether Sperling threatened Woodward (he didn’t).
Lost in all the intrigue: That $85 billion in government spending was about to be sucked out of the struggling American economy, that everybody agreed the cuts were stupid, and that nobody in Washington was doing anything to fix the problem.
In other words, the only thing missing from the Washington debate was reality. As is usually the case, the calculations here were about small tactical wins — heedless of the concept that what Americans want are not skirmishes but solutions..."
THE WASHINGTON POST: With sequester, Washington as usual
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