Let "It" Go Over a Cliff

The "fiscal cliff" is just a bunch of neo-liberal nonsense anyway. I'll believe it when I see it Obama is "balking" at "entitlement" cuts.

As we all know, Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

Besides, who gives a shit about the deficit anyway but the top one percent of the top one percent?

I say let things "go off the cliff."

Mr. Transformative can't be trusted to do the correct thing, however:

On Monday, the president presented a new offer and on Tuesday, Mr. Boehner answered back as he and the president conferred by telephone. That talk came two days after a one-on-one meeting in the Oval Office without staff members present — their first solo meeting since those failed talks toward a “grand bargain” in July 2011. While neither provided details, one person familiar with the White House proposal said Mr. Obama had reduced his call for $1.6 trillion in additional revenues from the wealthy over the first 10 years to $1.4 trillion, still $600 billion higher than the Republicans’ position. And another said the president also proposed that the two sides commit to working on overhauling the corporate tax code next year.

Earlier Tuesday, Mr. Boehner made a rare statement from the floor of the House admonishing the president to offer more, and more specific, spending cuts.

In an interview with ABC News, Mr. Obama said that if Republicans relent on their resistance to tax rates going up on the wealthy, “then we are prepared to do some tough things on the spending side.”