Perhaps more interesting is the survey's finding that 42 percent of respondents dont care which gender their boss is. And isnt that what workplace equality is really all about?

The first year of automatic, across-the-board budget cuts didn't live up to the dire predictions from the Obama administration and others who warned of sweeping furloughs and big disruptions of government services. The second round just might.

The focus appears to be on people whose policies have been canceled. But the president can't just pick up the phone and order the Treasury to cut checks for people suffering from insurance premium sticker shock.