CAn they get the fiscal mess done in time??

[Angry Dragon]

There are only 42 days left until the end of the world ...........

[elleng]

1. They COULD, but they won't;

with the same 'players,' it won't happen now, as it could have happened last year.

[quinnox]

2. I hope not

I am rooting against a deal, because I think the best course of action is to do nothing, and bring back the previous rates. If I was conspiracy minded, I would say this was the grand plan all along, and they did it this way so both parties would share the blame equally.

[msongs]

3. it is NOT a cliff, rather, a slope that only edges down starting Jan 1 nt

[MannyGoldstein]

4. They just need to grab the Social Security Trust Fund, and all will be well.

$2.6 trillion and growing. That will be a fine way to pay for a decade of fiscal malfesance.

[PufPuf23]

5. The USA fiscal mess is a fantasy that is created and fed by

special and ingrained power interests that have nothing to do with the good of the People nor national secuirty of the USA much less for the ecology or human or life population of Planet Earth.

Human condition in the faux history of the Abrahamic texts is bizarre and dysfunctional.

We -- the USA -- are determined to be a blip, if noticed or cared, in the geologic record before major transformation.

Humanity disappoints me.

I hope POTUS Obama gets real in the appointments and policies of the next two years.

The USA does have significance to Planet Earth and the current community of nations by circumstance. This deserves respect.

[bluestate10]

6. The President and democrats absolutely must not give in to unreasonable republican demands.

I would rather see ALL tax cuts expire and the country taken over the fiscal cliff before I see terrorists being rewarded for being terrorists.