Arguably the best way, the simplest, most reasonable, most detached from ideological blather way of looking at the sequester cuts is this: randomized, across the board cuts certainly don't amount to optimal thinking viz budget making [go ahead and blame whomever you want for it having come to this - Obama - point is it has come to this] but still, when the dust settles, we're only looking at about 45 billion or so that will be cleaved away this year, which equals a little more than 1 cent for every dollar spent by the US gov't and so consequently it seems a reasonable, non-hysterical conclusion to draw that liberal hysterics about this pending doom is evidence of either, one, the Obama administration once again doing the only thing it has shown any real talent for - lying for political gain and then putting faith in the media to cover the lie as if it isn't the thing it is; two, liberals truly do think the sole purpose of gov't is to spend lots and lots and lots of money regardless of whether or not it even has the money - indeed, having the money is virtually a meaningless consideration - spending is all that matters; or three, we actually can't manage to cut a measly penny from every dollar we spend without bad things happening which forces upon one the inescapable conclusion that we are seriously, seriously, seriously fucked.
Now, no point dwelling on option three since if we're that bad off nothing we do is really gonna make much of a difference - hell, if we're that bad off might as well just let Obama have his way - republicans should stand aside and let the democrats do whatever they wanna do 'cause at least then we'll get to blame them when the country falls to ruin. But what am I thinking - we all know that if republicans stood aside and let Obama have his way and the country devolved into Greece, American style, we all know Obama and his maenads would still lay blame elsewhere - Bush dug us into too deep of a hole - the GOP stubbornly stymied my agenda by cleverly letting me pursue it unopposed - and racism!! Yes, of course racism, at this point almost goes without saying, that.
So let it be the first two that tell the real story - after all Obama's preferred governing style is to lie, obfuscate, misdirect, pontificate [aka the perpetual campaign] and then leave to the media nurture of the illusion that that's not at all what he's doing. And, yes, ivory towered uber liberals of Obama's ilk really would have no idea how to function in an environment where policy wasn't inextricably wound up in reams upon reams of gov't largesse, excess and interminable warrants - not unlike the flawlessly flawed bureaucrats of Kafka's Castle, whose madness became justification for every absurdity wrought in service to it.
