Today’s question seems to be: Who is to blame for the sequester? And the answer most people will reach very much depends on personal beliefs.

Democrats blame Republicans and Republicans blame Democrats. John Boehner has called it, “the president’s sequester”. And it is commonly called the Obamaquestor (hashtag #Obamaquester on Twitter).

But according to factcheck.org a member of President Obama’s administration did first propose the sequester idea but it was supposed to be a such a bad thing that Congress would be forced to find the deficit reduction required by Congressional Republicans to to increase the debt ceiling. This Budget Control Act passed on a bipartisan basis so it would seem silly to me to say that the sequester belongs to one side or the other.