Vote Present

For John, BLUF:  The Republicans will probably not come out of the current budget negotiations as even breaking even.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

Well, it is kind of a tacky way of saying it, but Mr Ed Morrissey says, regarding the Fiscal Cliff,♠ "The Republicans Are So Screwed".

I like Captain Ed's idea of the Republicans just voting "Present".  The alternative is to offer up for a vote the bi-partisan Simpson-Bowles plan, as recently suggested by Commenter Mary Katherine Ham.

But, there is always the idea of just going over the cliff, as Dr Howard Dean suggested this morning.

I just want to know who is going to be generating the capital to grow the economy.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Some people are calling it "The So Called Fiscal Cliff".  The implication is that to really smart people it isn't really a fiscal cliff.  Mostly those are the really smart people who think that Benghazi was about a riot and that US Citizens shouldn't be allowed to make YouTube videos that criticize Islam or blaspheme its Prophet.