Dean: "The best thing that can happen to us is to go off the fiscal cliff"

[grahamhgreen]

Just heard this on a conference call.

What this would do is bring us big war dept cuts.....

[villager]

1. I'm glad you used the correct phrase, "War Dept.," which, of course, it is

A generally sustained outbreak of peace would terrify them.

[loli phabay]

2. mayby or mayby not. probuably everyone would suffer and who knkws how bad it would get

[msongs]

3. if obama/dems will just get out of the way and not try to be bipartisan...again lol nt

[hay rick]

5. In the third debate, Obama renounced the sequester on military spending.

See at 9:46 p.m. - http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/22/live-blog-the-final-obama-romney-debate/

Where's a lemming when you need one?

[grahamhgreen]

7. Lemmings are smarter - they don't take the rest of the world with them when they jump!

[HereSince1628]

4. In this part of the world we call such "cliffs" toboggan runs,

The cliff rhetoric is just the tool of the brinksmen seeking a panic button to make possible otherwise totally unacceptable austerity.

[GitRDun]

6. Roll back the tax cuts, go off the cliff

Negotiating from that position gives the D's far more leverage.

They can retroactively restore whatever they want.

We have just GOT to get the finances straightened out.