reason. at the moment they re not doing that, because in the weird calculus of the sequester, they created a thing so terrible that we would never let it happen, and thus we would come to some bigger deal they would like better. we didn t come to that bigger deal, and so we now need to let the thing that we would never let happen now happen. it doesn t make a lot of sense, but it appears to make a kind of twisted sense that is appealing to house republicans. let s say they did not do the thing that everybody says would be a bad thing to do. let s say they did repeal the sequester and not go through with it. is there anything about the process of doing that that would then preclude the two sides from having the big debate for the bigger deal that they want to have thereafter? nothing. there is nothing the congress can come to a big deal at any time they would like. if you want to know, the only the really counterintuitive bang shot argument that relies on congress being even mor
reason. at the moment they re not doing that, because in the weird calculus of the sequester, they created a thing so terrible that we would never let it happen, and thus we would come to some bigger deal they would like better. we didn t come to that bigger deal, and so we now need to let the thing that we would never let happen now happen. it doesn t make a lot of sense, but it appears to make a kind of twisted sense that is appealing to house republicans. let s say they did not do the thing that everybody says would be a bad thing to do. let s say they did repeal the sequester and not go through with it. is there anything about the process of doing that that would then preclude the two sides from having the big debate for the bigger deal that they want to have thereafter? nothing. there is nothing the congress can come to a big deal at any time they would like. if you want to know, the only the really counterintuitive bang shot argument that relies on congress being even mor
calculus of the sequester, they created a thing so terrible that we would never let it happen, and thus we would come to some bigger deal they would like better. we didn t come to that bigger deal, and so we now need to let the thing that we would never let happen now happen. it doesn t make a lot of sense, but it appears to make a kind of twisted sense that is appealing to house republicans. let s say they did not do the thing that everybody says would be a bad thing to do. let s say they did repeal the sequester and not go through with it. is there anything about the process of doing that that would then preclude the two sides from having the big debate for the bigger deal that they want to have thereafter? nothing. there is nothing the congress can come to a big deal at any time they would like. if you want to know, the only the really counterintuitive bang shot argument that relies on congress being even more horrible than people i think even recognize for the sequester is