It’s going over the cliff no matter what. Let the Kenyan own it, he is smarter than the rest of us.
It won’t matter. The GOP will still be blamed for it all. The media will go out of its way to protect obama and the dems.
The real fun is in February when the debt ceiling has to be raised. Now, that will be the real game of chicken. We can say - we gave him what he wanted on the taxes, now we need real entitlement reductions to raise the ceiling.
Of course, they don't want and will not entertain any type of entitlement reform, so that will be the real standoff.
If then, we hold firm and don't raise the ceiling, federal workers are laid off first. Not the worst thing in the world. Then some checks might just be held back. We were reasonable on taxes; they are being unreasonable on cuts. Might just work.
Once people (the 47%) realize that there is not an unlimited amount of money available for all their “stuff”, maybe, just maybe, we can start pulling back a little on entitlements - raise Soc Sec a couple of years; means test it annually, reduce free Obamacare to maybe only 2x poverty level (is 4x now!), etc.
The debt level is much more important in the long run. Reid wants something like $4 trillion more. That has to be stopped.