By Doug Porter
For the twelve days of Christmas I give you: The madness of 2013, one month at a time-A month by month recap of stories that appeared in the Starting Line last year.
#1 Sequestration Won’t Make the Sky Fall
Happy sequestration day. The sky most likely won’t fall at 11:59pm tonight when President Obama signs the order implementing terms of a deal struck with Congress designed to be so odious that no person in their right mind would allow it to happen.
That should tell us a lot about the current mental state of the nation’s politicians. But it doesn’t. The horrible deal, as it turns out, isn’t all that horrible, at least in the short run.