The Sky Wiil NOT Fall

The Sequester is coming! The sequester is coming!

And, suddenly, the angst among Washington Post writers is, “Hmmmm…perhaps we have overhyped it a bit.”

Yep!

“The good news is, the world doesn’t end March 2. The bad news is, the world doesn’t end March 2,” said Emily Holubowich, a Washington health-care lobbyist who leads a coalition of 3,000 nonprofit groups fighting the cuts. “The worst-case scenario for us is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens. And Republicans say: See, that wasn’t so bad.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-big-sequester-gamble-how-badly-will-the-cuts-hurt/2013/02/23/be0c44e2-7c4e-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html?tid=wp_ipad

This, in the same edition where Bob Woodward called BS on the president”s assertion that the Sequester was not the idea of the White House. Oh, yes, it was, reports Woodward. It seems he was in the White House writing a book during that time.

But, as I have previously noted, this is not my first rodeo, and I have been down this path before. In Washington there is even a name for it — it is called the Washington Monument Syndrome and it has had it’s own Wikipedia entry for many years.

(The term emanates from the habit of blackmail by government agencies who threaten to close the most public and venerable part of their service if a dime is cut from their budget. In 1968 the Park and Recreation Department threatened and actually closed the Washington Monument for two days when facing a budget cut. “It is also called the “Firemen First Syndrome” for the same reason.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_Syndrome

But it is just possible that this time the Republicans are serious — although I doubt it.

I would love to see the Sequester, followed immediately by a Republican bill to restore the military cuts — let the Democrats vote against THAT!

Watch the newspeople back off the “Sky is falling” this next week – because they will have facial egg when the sky does not fall.