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But there’s much more at play here than public opinion, the relative popularity of a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction, and the challenging environment some Democrats will face in 2014.

The most important factor in this fight is probably the reality that Obama doesn’t have to face voters again and thus is willing to veto sequestration replacement bills if they’re composed of spending cuts alone. Congressional Democrats are fully aware of this, too, and that creates a powerful incentive for them to hold the line.

So sequestration will begin. Obama won’t cave. And then the tension sequestration was intended to create — and in fact has created — between defense hawks and the rest of the GOP will intensify and actually splinter the party. If that doesn’t happen quickly enough, then the sequestration fight will become tangled up in the need to renew funding for the federal government at the end of March. If Republicans don’t cave before then, they’ll precipitate a 1995-style government shutdown, public opinion will actually begin to control the outcome, and it’ll be game over.

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But there’s much more at play here than public opinion, the relative popularity of a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction, and the challenging environment some Democrats will face in 2014.

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Yes, Dems Have A Structural Advantage

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cannot be considered the President of the country, but merely the president of the power-drunken democrat party.

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It would be difficult to create a more meaningless or cliche word salad. Throw in "Muslim Socialist Kenyan" for good measure.

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We'll see how things turn out in about 3-5 years.

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Says the man caught in a lie in his sig-line about being a Virginia Law grad.

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the relative popularity of a “balanced approach” to deficit reduction

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If Republicans don’t cave before then

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hey’ll precipitate a 1995-style government shutdown, public opinion will actually begin to control the outcome, and it’ll be game over.

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Then again, Bush did start a meaningless war, destroy a surplus, and oversee an economic collapse.

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And I think his point was that the sequestration debacle is symptomatic of a greater inability in Washington to compromise on anything

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And I think his point was that the sequestration debacle is symptomatic of a greater inability in Washington to compromise on anything -- eventually resulting in a 90's style shutdown.

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The balanced approach is BS, there are no compromises. It's all what Obama wants or has wanted. He presents the idea of a sequester to cut some spending and the Republicans accept the compromise and raise the debt ceiling; but when it's time to cut Obama feigns outrage, proclaims a crisis and the chess match is back on.

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"he is intentionally trying to destroy the country" camp

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Serious question: do you think he's a bad President because he tries to get what he wants? Or more specifically, do you think that is one of the qualities that makes him a bad President? Do you think this is a unique characteristic in the history of the American Presidency?

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