Sequestor was originally obama's idea. He presented it to Harry Reid initially and it thus became part of jun/july 2011 debt limit negotiations. Not only does obama manage to blame republicans and congress in general for whatever negative effects might result from the sequester cuts, but he got them all rallying behind this idea cheering it on as so good for america and so harmless etc etc just to cover their own hides and not face blame for whatever fallout, when originally it was his idea in the first place.
From krauthammer all down the line they are all defending sequestor and cheering it and it was Obama's idea. Truly amazing.