There's one foolproof plan to avoid the looming budget sequester: repeal it

You can't be for it while you're against it Just about everybody in Washington, DC says they are against the draconian spending cuts scheduled to begin on March 1 thanks to the 2011 debt limit crisis. The problem is, nobody is willing to support the easiest and most responsible way to avoid those cuts: dumping the sequester.

Take House Majority Whip Tom Cole of Oklahoma, for example. Yesterday on ABC's This Week, he said he was "absolutely" opposed to replacing the sequester's deficit reductions with a deal that includes revenue. The only thing he said he'd consider was "redistributing" the cuts, presumably to screw over people that he doesn't count as political allies.

But although Cole blamed the sequester on President Obama and said people "ought to be worried" about the impact it will have, he said it was "inevitable." The only thing that proves, however, is that Cole doesn't understand what the word inevitable means, because if Congress wants to avoid the sequester, it can simply repeal it.

As you'll see below the fold, while Cole was taking his hard line against revenue, Senator John McCain actually did the unthinkable, telling Fox News that he wouldn't rule out accepting new revenue as part of a deal to replace the sequester.