Who Will Win the Sequester Showdown?

Michael Scherer: “Talking to Republicans and Democrats drafting strategy, there is a clear
difference in morale. Republicans are fighting a battle they never
wanted to be fighting, with little momentum, a smaller soap box and the
most fragile unity within their own caucus. Obama and the Democrats, by
contrast, feel ascendent, buttressed by high polls and a recent ballot
box win, and are ready to mark what they will believe to be the next
body blow to the Republican no-new-taxes-ever vision of shrink-the-beast
governing. That said, nothing is certain, and eventually, whether it be
four days, four months, or a couple years from now, someone will have
to blink. Anyone still could.”

Andrew Sullivan: “For myself, I simply cannot see how a political party that has branded
itself in favor of drastic spending cuts can somehow win a public debate
in which they are now apparently opposing drastic spending cuts, and ‘blaming’ them on Obama.”

Based on the newspaper front pages compiled by BuzzFeed, President Obama’s media offensive on the sequester seems to be working.