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Hours from 'fiscal cliff,' still no deal in Congress

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Re: Hours from 'fiscal cliff,' still no deal in Congress

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If the current Congress fails to come up with something here, let's elect all new people during the next election.

Except we won't. We rarely do, and only at onesies and twosies.

Besides, they aren't working on the fiscal cliff anyway, even if it looks like they are. They're wielding a tool which they created which gives them another way to make the other side look bad. That's the entire point. Governing is a side effect.

Tip O'Neill said that all politics is local. That may be true for elections. But it is certain that all government is politics.

Re: Hours from 'fiscal cliff,' still no deal in Congress

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post #3

If the current Congress fails to come up with something here, let's elect all new people during the next election.

Except we won't. We rarely do, and only at onesies and twosies. Besides, they aren't working on the fiscal cliff anyway, even if it looks like they are. They're wielding a tool which they created which gives them another way to make the other side look bad. That's the entire point. Governing is a side effect. Tip O'Neill said that all politics is local. That may be true for elections. But it is certain that all gover…

If only the.. uhh.. "people" glued to Fox News and MSNBC could open their eyes and realize that their side is just as culpable as the evil side.