Politico writes, STATE OF PLAY: WAITING FOR THE AFTERMATH -- With just 40 hours or so to go until the zero hour, we couldn't put the situation much better than Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker did yesterday after the Senate Republican lunch: "Sequester's going to kick in on Friday, and hopefully what'll happen over time is that we'll come together around something that's more sensible and actually deals with the real issues, which as we all know the reason the sequester's kicking in the way that it is, is people still don't have the courage to deal with the issue that has to be dealt with, and that's entitlements."…