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We really can t sit this one out. it is too important. so this is our nerdland attempt to make the politics behind the sequester both understandable and if at all possible, fun. president obama is kevin bacon. in the cult classic footloose. if you remember the film, you will recall kevin bacon s character shakes up a small rural town when he moves to it with his mom and starts dancing. he s dared into a game of chicken, racing tractors with the town bully. it s a tractor race. it goes on for awhile. so republicans in congress and the president agree to their game of chicken back in 2011 when they couldn t settle a fight over raising the country s debt limit. they avoided that game of chicken with the budget control act which had a bunch of crazy cuts that no one would want and as both parties would be forced to compromise but now their ....