re: #153 Killgore Trout

CSM explores the situation fairly well if you’d like a nonpartisan view
Bob Woodward vs. the White House: Who’s right in ‘sequester’ smackdown?

The article does nothing to explain why Bob Woodward thought that trying to come up with a compromise to replace the sequester - the exact thing the sequester was supposed to force - was moving the goalposts. Unless his version of compromise was: all cuts, just more targeted.