THE HILL: Republicans: Obama administration hiding big job losses from sequester.

Republicans accused the Obama administration Tuesday of intimidating defense contractors and seeking to hide job losses from pending cuts to the Pentagon’s budget in order to help the president’s reelection campaign.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and other Republicans pointed to guidance issued Monday by the Department of Labor that said it would be “inappropriate” for defense firms to issue layoff notices to employees before the election due to the pending cuts.

“The president doesn’t want people reading about pink slips in the weeks before his election, so the White House is telling people to keep the effects of these cuts secret — ‘Don’t tell anybody,’ he says, ‘keep it a secret’ — until, of course, after the election,” McConnell said on the Senate floor Tuesday.

I say, repeal the Hollywood Tax Cuts!

UPDATE: Reader Joe Inscore writes:

I’ve been reading with interest your posts on repealing the Hollywood tax cuts, and frankly, you’ve hit a nerve with me. Hollywood has turned into a big cash cow for the Democratic Party, and is now the largest, or second largest, financier of national Democratic elections. With zero or close to zero funds going to Republicans, and I can’t see how the Republicans can continue to overlook this, I’m all for repealing the tax breaks for Hollywood, but I’m also for ala carte programing. The big media conglomerates using cable and satellite to broadcast force the consumer to support networks like CNN, MSNBC, E, Comedy Central, VH-1, and a host of others that wouldn’t be viable if they had to stand on their own and rely on advertising and traditional sources of revenue. Along with cleaning up the election process, ala carte programing would go a long way toward breaking up the Democrat stranglehold on the broadcast media. And lead to lower prices for consumers regardless of what the CEOs of these companies proclaim.

I’m all for unbundling.