I see your point. But, this isn't necessarily a last-minute change. The sequester has been coming for nearly a year and a half. And given that Obama and his crew were wailing about the re-enactment of the plagues of Egypt hitting us, if it weren't stopped, you'd think they'd be able to put their "research" on large lesbos on the shelf for a while.
Speaking of a re-enactment of the plagues of Egypt...
Huge swarms of locusts are invading IsraelFirst locust swarms reach Israel, Jordan from Egypt Israel’s Agriculture Ministry has set up a hot line for helping farmers manage the destruction wrought by swarms of
sparrow sized locusts which Monday flew in from Egypt where a swarm of 30 million insects devastated crops.
Super swarm: More than one million locusts have crossed the border from Egypt to Israel
Crackdown: A man holds locusts as the swarm is tested on the Israeli border with Egypt
The locust alert comes ahead of the week long Passover festival, which begins on March 25.
It recounts the biblical story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt, during which, according to the Bible, a huge swarm of locusts was the eighth of 10 plagues God imposed on Egyptians to persuade Pharaoh to free the ancient Hebrews from slavery.
Pharaoh did not agree to let them go until after the 10th plague, the death of the first born in every Egyptian family.