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THEN WHY DID THEY CREATE THIS MESS IF THEY NEVER WANTED TO BE HELD TO IT?!?!?!?

As insane as it sounds, the Republicans really believed that the Democrats on the "Super Committee" would be adults and would compromise. They thought of sequestration as "too bad to really be implemented."

If sequestration happens, unemployment will skyrocket. Thousands of DoD jobs will be lost. Industry will lay off thousands. Our industrial base will take years to recover, if at all, in certain high tech DoD related industries. It is this type of innovation, foreign military sales, and the employment of engineers and skilled workers that helps keep a good portion of the economy afloat. Instead, the Democrats and Obama would prefer everyone subsisting on Food Stamps.

Rep. West Gives GOP Address On Sequester: Obama's "Failure To Lead Is Inexcusable"

Romney, to his credit, has been speaking out on Obama's failure to lead us out of this impending crisis. He should keep it up, and hammer away.

Obama and Reid could solve this problem in an afternoon if they wanted to. The weeping Speaker of the House was almost there - agreeing to close some tax loopholes in order to get concessions from Obama on long term entitlement reform (which is the real issue breaking the back of this nation).

We now stand at a cliff - the Democrats want to raise taxes and hold the nation's security and economy hostage - and the Republicans feel they cannot act further.

I've observed the consequences of that kind of thinking. A program that took 15 years to recruit and train the staff to produce a key technology was gutted by Obama's cuts. The staff tossed on the street. Labs closed. Even if you get the money back, the staff has moved on to new employment and won't feel any obligation to return to a project that dumped them at a moment's notice. Even a 60 day lapse in funding can totally destroy years of work.