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Even if the president’s dire predictions of tainted meat and out-of-control wildfires wreaking havoc across the nation didn’t faze you, surely you were touched by the sad-looking seal that accompanied the Washington Post’s story on sequestration cuts. The Washington Post has decided not to mess with success and has more than doubled down; today’s Wonkblog features 21 zoo animals that “have strong feelings on the sequester.”

Wonkblog is going to get real buzzfeedy in a few minutes…

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) February 22, 2013

What does Buzzfeedy mean? This is what Buzzfeedy means.

The Washington Post has some serious sequestration coverage as well, because like the president said, this is serious business, and the GOP is to blame. As Dennis Kelly, director of the National Zoo, told a Washington Post reporter, “I have a very ill anteater right now.”

By the way, Wonkblog’s serious sequester explainer is here: washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) February 22, 2013

Won’t someone think of the poor zoo animals?

How many people know all this hysteria is over the government only spending 15 billion MORE than last year? MORE THAN LAST YEAR. #tcot

— RB (@RBPundit) February 22, 2013

@rbpundit But think of the zoo animals.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) February 22, 2013

The Atlantic’s Molly Ball has an idea.

Hungry zoo animals thanks to sequestration cuts. A few miles away, Congress sits idle. Solution seems obvious, no?

— Molly Ball (@mollyesque) February 22, 2013

@mollyesque I’ll start planning a wild-game menu, then?

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) February 22, 2013

The Huffington Post, for its contribution to the upcoming sequestration apocalypse, ups the ante by offering this important slide show:

21 animals that have absolutely nothing to say about sequestrationhuff.to/13uYDbz

— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) February 22, 2013

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/02/22/washington-post-gives-the-sad-sequester-seal-some-company/