Whose fault is it ?

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If one party hadn't decided to use the debt ceiling as a hostage in the budget debates.

If one party hadn't reigned on the law that sunset the bush tax cuts AND gone back on the deal made back in 2010 that the tax cuts for the top incomes would only be extended for 2 more years and would expire at the beginning of next year.

If one party hadn't used reconciliation to pass ultimately unaffordable tax cuts back in 2001 -2003

If one party hell bent on starting expensive and unsustainable wars in far off lands.

Would we be heading for a fiscal cliff ?

Would there even be one ?

 

[NightSwimmer]

They constructed this noose.

They placed in around their own necks.

Now, they stand on the trap door wondering whether to pull the lever.

I say: Go for it!