Saying the name "Bob Woodward" should be enough to make any
journalist, regardless of medium, stop, at least for a moment,
and say thanks.  And that's why we're rather wild about the
attitude he's being served by none other than his fellows within
the Washington, D.C., press corps.  Woodward, who has a bit of a
history with questioning government (see Watergate), showed some
equal-opportunity skepticism recently, questioning the
(Democratic) White House's details of the whole sequester story.
This sequester issue is something about which the majority of
American people don't give a whole lot of a damn. Important.
Boring. Made-for-TV political theater. And we're still not sure
what the hullabaloo is about making the government reconsider
vast budgets in light of what are blatantly apparent (to anyone
else) financial constraints. People have been doing it at
kitchen tables and in home offices for a long time; government
is fat, lazy and happy with its unlimited supply of cash. Long
past time for change.  Woodw