Michael Barone "But the Republicans didn't deal. They decided to take the sequester cuts and make them the basis for a continuing resolution funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year.
"Obama responded by threatening all sorts of dire consequences -- Head Start kids left out in the snow, airline security lines as far as the eye can see.
Republicans would take the blame, the Obama folks believed. Polls showed they were far less popular than the president.
"Then on Tuesday it was announced that White House tours were cancelled. "The sequester meant there wasn't enough money to host those high school kids from Waverly, Iowa."
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