Fiscal Cliffery

(Image by Glenn Foden)

 

Well, our political ruling class managed to avert the dreaded Fiscal Cliff.

 

Sort of.  Even the liberally-minded Seattle Times warns of the Fiscal Storm Clouds on the horizon.

 

Charles Krauthammer said this was a complete rout of the GOP.  It's hard to argue with the man. 

 

In fact, Comrade Karla agrees:

 

I'm not surprised this is how it turned out, given how our system works (or doesn't work). The GOP needs to hold the Dems' feet to the fire on entitlement reform and spending cuts. But they've never really consistently done that in the past, so why would it change now?
To quote Mel Brooks (Governer LePtomaine), this deal was driven by their fervent desire to protect their "phoney baloney jobs."

 

Thomas Sowell even lambastes the Republican Party and says they deserved to loose (the 2012 election). 

 

But not everyone is happy within the GOP ranks.  Another friend pointed out:

 

I also see that Drudge is running a poll on whether or not Boehner needs to go...it's 85% in favor last I checked. 

 

So our new year may look something like this:

 

(Image by Glenn McCoy)