MEGAN MCARDLE: The Administration’s Thin Complaints About the Sequester: Why do their claims keep falling apart under scrutiny? “From this I infer that the administration is having a hard time finding concrete examples of bad things that the sequester is going to do. Nor is that a huge surprise. Whether you’re for or against the sequester, we are talking about relatively small sums, in the scope of the federal deficit. They’re simply not going to show up in much measurable way as devastating hardship.”