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The difference is obama wants to avoid them. could the gop message on the sequester be anymore self-defeating. it made rush limbaugh uncharacteristically humble today. he had to admit there is something even he doesn't understand. >> boehner, echoing obama, in "the wall street journal," in answer to a question, the republicans support the sequester. they're on record as supporting it, even though it is obama's idea. they support it. it is the only way we're going to get budget cuts. the question is why would republicans support something that does what boehner says it is going to do? threatens...

>> that is why you're here, jump on every analogy that comes along. >> i am not a parent like krystal, but i think it is a bit like you have a kid who is not getting the grades, right? so you threaten them, you say if you don't get your grades up i'm going to home school you, that is supposed to be worse. the child probably wants to be home -- not home schooled. if the grades stay down, what happens? you undermine your parental authority, i believe. >> yeah, that is my understanding. >> and you are basically in a situation saying well, neither of us wanted that. we all know it was a threat. an...

We have done a large piece of spending reduction. the budget control act of august '11, you remember that, that froze discretionary spending for ten years. that picked up a trillion dollars or so over the ten years. that's not small change. and in addition to that, the various continuing resolutions have cut discretionary spending. so, it's not the problem. the problem is the entitlements and taxes. so, that's what they ought to be talking about. >> what do you think of simpson/bowles revisited this slightly scaled back plan they unveiled yesterday? >> it's the right idea. they are saying exac...

Last year and ultimately each will have to give. >> if in fact we're actually going to get a bipartisan deal that we're going to push both sides to get out of their comfort zone and to make the kind of compromises we need to make to get something done. >> reporter: former wyoming republican senator alan simpson says the sequester can't possibly work. he says both health care spending and social security are unsustainable in their current form, martha? martha: down this road before. wendell, thank you very much. wendell goler at the white house. bill: given all of this though, the long-term spe...

It is partisan politics. both sides signed off on the sequestration. if you put a package out there that is onerous, it would drive the parties to the table. the republicans signed off on it. they voted for it. everybody's fingerprints on this deal. it looks like it is going to happen. although it is not like the debt ceiling where immediately you feel the pain the day after. it takes a while for the pain to be felt. there is about three weeks before the money runs out for the government to function. i think in that period of time, they will come up with some better arrangement than the axe ac...