Time for Plan C. We still have a lot of alphabet left.

But it still won't be good enough for Obama, and when he dumps on it he'll still manage to spin it as the Republican's fault that he rejected it and say they should should put partisan politics aside.

It takes two to make a compromise, and only one to prevent it.

Obama. The preventer.

"C" for "Cliff".

At least someone is doing the math.

"...Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the sides didn't reach agreement, he would use his inaugural address and his State of the Union speech to tell the country the Republicans were at fault.
At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, "I put $800 billion on the table. What do I get for that?"
"You get nothing," the president said. "I get that for free."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324731304578193770576333616.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/eric-bolling-encourages-swan-dive-off-fiscal-cliff-it-should-be-called-the-obama-cliff/

Again: it's not about who gets hurt, it's who gets blamed for the injuries. And I'm guessing most Faux News personalities can afford $6.00 per gallon for milk.

Meanwhile, Hannity is basically saying the GOP should not work with the President because in his opinion, the White House has mocked them. Well, if that's the new standard, then no Democrat has any obligation to work with a Republican ever again due to Hannity's mocking of the left. Fair's fair, right?

...we did put an age restriction on running for the actualy offices, right? Because right now, the first graders are running the show. And they aren't toilet trained.

So as I understand the current logic, any liberal who suffers from the upcoming collapse deserves it and any conservative will just understand this is the price for making the liberals pay and they'll bear the pain gladly.

Or on the underlying level, 'We're rich. None of the price increases will bother us in the least.'

Rupert Murdoch's and Rush Limbaugh's finest hour approaches. Let the natural end to ultra-partisan politics begin.

Hey, Tea Party! You won!

this year the ball will drop from the fiscal cliff?

This Congress dropped the ball a long time ago.

Turns out the terrorists were homegrown.

You are correct!

And? These terrorists went to the very best of schools.

paddles the air while the Roadrunner moves an Acme trampoline to just the right spot at the bottom to break the coyote's fall, and it propels him upward again only to see him fall again and then shoot upward again and then fall again...

So half the rich people and banks figure we are going over the cliff and that means they will be able to screw over screw over the middle class and poor more than ever before.

and

The other half of the rich people and banks think the last minute deal will happen and that means they will be able to screw over the middle class and poor more than ever before.

Did I miss anything?

LAST EDITED ON 12-31-12 AT 09:14 PM (EST)

No matter how much Congress tries to ignor it, the odometer is about to turn.

Because in the end the people who were unwilling to vote on anything instead voted for everything that results from their unwillingness to get anything done.

While an agreement in principle was supposedly reached, it wasn't voted on and since the day off is more important than cleaning up the mess from a day off, no one's going to touch this until at least tomorrow.

I now expect some Tea Party stalwart to try and filibuster the economy.

We'll see how the Senate deal fares in the House. That's the big question.

Put it this way: we are about to play a game called Find The Revolutionaries-In-Waiting. Everybody loses.

It's possible the GOP could get enough of a grip on its own membership to get this thing through -- but the Toilet Papers are unlikely to cooperate. The question would then become 'How much TP does it take to coat the country with bowel movement product?' And the answer? Just enough.

Let's see who really believes in the 'We will own the rubble!' (false) equation.

LAST EDITED ON 01-01-13 AT 05:18 PM (EST)

What the Senate Bill does and why the Tea Party will kill it:

Extends Bush-era tax breaks on incomes up to $400,000 for individuals, $450,000 for couples. Earnings above those amounts would be taxed at a rate of 39.6%, up from the current 35%. Extends Clinton-era caps on itemized deductions and the phase-out of the personal exemption for individuals making more than $250,000 and couples earning more than $300,000.
(It's a tax raise!)

Estates would be taxed at a top rate of 40%, with the first $5 million in value exempted for individual estates and $10 million for family estates. In 2012, such estates were subject to a top rate of 35%.
(It's a death tax raise!)

Taxes on capital gains and dividend income exceeding $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for families would increase from 15% to 20%.
(Hurts mythological job creators and job creation!)

Permanently addresses the alternative minimum tax and indexes it for inflation to prevent nearly 30 million middle- and upper-middle income taxpayers from being hit with higher tax bills averaging almost $3,000.
(Are they trying to put tax accountants out of business? In this economy?)

Extends for five years Obama-sought expansions of the child tax credit, earned income tax credit, and an up to $2,500 tax credit for college tuition.
(Loopholes!)

Extends jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed for one year.
(Nanny state!)

Blocks a 27% cut in Medicare payments to doctors for one year. The cut is the product of an obsolete 1997 budget formula.
(Well, and it was flawed from the outset anyway, though an effort at fiscal responsibility, which just goes to prove there is no such animal as fiscally responsible gubment, at least not Democratic ones.)

Allows a 2-percentage point cut in the payroll tax first enacted two years ago to lapse, which restores the payroll tax to 6.2%.
(Hurts small business!)

Delays for two months $109 billion worth of across-the-board spending cuts set to start striking the Pentagon and domestic agencies this week. Cost of $24 billion is divided between spending cuts and new revenues from rules changes on converting traditional individual retirement accounts into Roth IRAs.
(Not enough spending cuts!)

Cost of $24 billion is divided between spending cuts and new revenues

So much for cutting that deficit; let's raise taxes and then whittle a little bit out of the extra revenue and call it "savings". That's why this won't get passed as written.

The House lost their balls. They wimped out from amending in some spending cuts because they didn't have the votes, and now they're gonna vote up or down on the Senate bill. If the Senate bill is as bad as I hear it is, why don't they just grow a set and vote the damn thing down? But it seems as if they don't have the jewelry to do so.

Thank goodness we're getting a new Congress in a couple of days, I'm more than fed up with this one.

At this point in the impending House vote I think the point may be how many TeePe-ers call in sick with the one-hour (can't) stomach (this) flu.

New?

Well, the congressional number did increment. And there are some new faces.

But it's gonna be the same ole BS.

No changes, passes the House, many Pubs still voted no.

Ouch.