With ten days before devastating domestic and defense spending cuts, what does Congress do?

House Speaker John Boehner hates the sequester enough to blame it on President Barack Obama, but he doesn't hate it enough to actually get rid of it. Instead, he's on vacation. In ten days, on March 1, the first installment of the automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester will begin to take effect. The indiscriminate cuts will slam domestic programs and military spending alike, hitting virtually everything the federal government does other than Medicare or Social Security benefits. The best programs and the worst programs will be treated alike and the steep drop in spending will slow down the economy and jobs growth.

So what does Congress do? It takes the week off, naturally. Because even though everybody in Washington, DC says they hate the sequester, nobody actually wants to get rid of it.