Republicans can't stop whining about the sequester they caused

Sen. John Thune Republicans are continuing the lather, rinse, and repeat cycle of claiming the sequester's cuts are a great thing, discovering the sequester's cuts affect something they care about, and complaining that that one thing should be exempted. Terming it sequestration NIMBYism, Brian Beutler rounds up a few more examples.

South Dakota Sen. John Thune objects to the closing of a campground at Wind Cave National Park:

'Instead of cuts that reduce wasteful and duplicative spending, the administration's politically calculated cuts are targeting facilities like the campground that actually serve as a revenue source for the park,' Thue added. 'It appears NPS is just another agency following the White House's lead in trying to find the cuts that can trigger a press release before looking to internal cost-saving measures that are less newsworthy.'

Rep. Richard Hanna "implores" the FAA not to close an air traffic control tower in his district, saying that the military trains at Griffiss International Airport and "during Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Sandy, it was Griffiss International Airport that served as a staging area for relief efforts."

So when it's a general cut out there in the world just affecting the ability of hundreds of thousands of struggling Americans to feed their families or stay off the streets, the sequester is just dandy as far as Republicans are concerned. But the minute it hits home, it's unnecessary, an outrage, and most likely a political act of aggression by the Obama administration. But all of the cuts are the sequester working as it was designed to work: to be indiscriminate and damaging and awful, so that Congress would work to avert or end it. And working to avert or end it is exactly what Republicans refuse to do, because that would mean making corporations and the wealthy pay slightly higher taxes. Since they're not willing to do that, all that's left is whining about the cuts that affect them.

Tell Republicans to pay attention to all the sequester cuts, not just the ones that affect them personally.