Jon Stewart had a good analogy. He compared President Obama's way of responding to a Congress refusing to raise the debt ceiling with the sequestration deal to a father who catches his son smoking and forces him to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes. The only problem is, this Congress is like Denis Leary.
The economy is being "secastrated", at least in the short term. Sequester is in the same family of words as the Spanish word, sequestro, which means kidnap. Republicans are trying to kidnap the second term away from President Obama.
