Compromise.

Even as the White House and lawmakers signal optimism about reaching a grand bargain to avert the fiscal cliff before the New Year, President Obama’s liberal allies were battening down the hatches on their position: no cuts to entitlement benefits, at all. MoveOn.org would not get behind any deal that reduced Medicare, Medicaid, or Social [...]

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"We ought to have these negotiations in front of C-SPAN cameras."

Grover Norquist seems a lot more optimistic than most conservatives this month in relation to Republican unity on the fiscal cliff. He tells CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that he doesn’t believe that any signatories to the Americans for Tax Reform pledge will violate their commitment to vote against tax increases — not even those who disavowed [...]

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A "read my lips" moment?

How easy is it to solve the fiscal cliff? Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) says it’s very simple indeed — and this Congress has already had “two practice runs” in addressing all of the issues that will have to get resolved before New Years Day to avoid disaster.  Frustrated by proposals for short-term extensions, Corker wrote [...]

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"This is the hatchet job of all time!"

Twelve minutes from today’s Cavuto. I agree, he never said he’d vote for Obama over Romney. What he said was that “we” the electorate might collectively conclude that there’s not enough difference between them to justify replacing the incumbent, the implication being that that would be a perfectly reasonable conclusion. Right? Read his comments from [...]

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