AP: US economy could withstand brief fall off 'cliff'

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Especially since it's not even technically a cliff

but rather a slope. There's nothing that can happen that can't be corrected in fairly short order once the next Congress gets seated. Though, one has to wonder why Congress set up things to happen like this if they knew it was going to create a disaster. My only theory is that Republicans figured that they wouldn't have to go through with it because they were going to sweep the House, Senate, and WH and be able to extend the Bush Tax Cuts (or make them "permanent&quot and renege on the sequestration at the first of the year. Things did not go as planned for them. How's that "we got 98% of what we wanted" looking right now, Mr. Boehner?