Sen. Dick Durbin: Obama Sequestration Was Just a Political Ploy TOPICS:deficiteconomymilitary cutsObama Sequestration Was Just a Political PloyrevenueSen. Dick Durbinsequestration budget threat not busget strategyspending cuts Posted By: BMartin1776 February 10, 2013 Everything the demoncrat party does has ulterior motives. They do it to push the republicants into the spot they want them. Just goes to show how dumb and useless the republicants have become.