>> It is perfectly obvious to me that Kevin has no way of knowing what is going on in Obama's head.

Then people should stick to the demonstrable facts.

In this case it's a staple of modern law that agreements made under duress are not legal. So if people want to blame Obama for the sequester, that's the first hurdle. Then they need to consider those who voted against it and then engineered partisan stalemate in the Supercommittee so that the sequester was realized. Finally, sensible commentary requires a credible motive for Obama to want the sequester. Seems to me it's more a symptom of the awful depths to which politics has sunk rather than an albatross to hang around one person's neck by dramatic fiction about his dastardly thoughts and deeds that led to it.