Howard Fineman: Fiscal Cliffs: Congress Falls To New Normal

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Howard Fineman
Editorial director, Huffington Post Media Group

Fiscal Cliffs: Congress Falls To New Normal
Posted: 12/31/2012 5:22 pm


This "fiscal cliff" thing? Get used to it. We now operate in a continuous "crisis" of pending governmental collapse.

The cliff we rushed to avoid New Year's Eve is just the first of many that we will face.

It's how we roll now. It's not how the framers envisioned it; not how the old textbooks described it in the chapter on "How a Bill Becomes a Law"; not how Norm Ornstein and Tom Mann wish it would be.

On one level, GBC, or "Government By Crisis," is just -- well, different. In that sense, it is not a big deal, just more neurotic, dramatic and exhausting than the way we've conducted business in the past. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/fiscal-cliff-congress_b_2390082.html

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