Here we go again. Congressional Republicans are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Vice President Biden and Sen. Mitch McConnell were locked in urgent talks late Sunday over the “fiscal cliff” after Democrats offered several significant concessions on taxes, including a proposal to raise rates only on earnings over $450,000 a year. [...]

Jazz Shaw at Hotair posted this concise representation of the “US Budget for Dummies“: * U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000 * Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000 * New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 * National debt: $14,271,000,000,000 * Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000 Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget: * Annual family income: $21,700 * [...]

Finally, someone has articulated the sanity behind embracing the so-called fiscal cliff: Don’t get me wrong: It would be better not to raise taxes on anyone, pursue pro-growth tax reform and cut the size of government instead. But that’s not what the American people voted to do last month. Americans cast their ballots for big [...]

The fact is, the big-government liberals need to find more money to fund their risky and chaotic fantasies (reference the mortgage meltdown that led to the 2008 Great Recession as one example of liberal devastation, and the mountains of Obama-Debt piling up on our children and their children as another example). They are borrowing $1.4 [...]

The Tea Party/Libertarian insurgent voters of 2010 know the best available answer to the stealing of money from future generations is to embrace the so-called fiscal cliff.  All other options are result in more theft and more kick-the-problem-down-the-rode. So far, the best deficit reduction package on the table is the fiscal cliff. But the Political [...]

How does that old proverb go? Watch what you ask for – you just may get it! Americans voted in 2012 for the party of big government – and by extension the party of big deficits and big taxes to fund their big government fiction! And so here we are, ready to go over the [...]

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This political cartoon is all the GOP, Tea Party and Libertarian need to understand to carry the day in DC and build a new political force in the nation that will take on ALL the special interests in DC [H/T Hotair]. It sums up the biggest threat to our children and grandchildren: that being our [...]

Update:  This is well said and to the point [H/T Powerline]: But all concerned are working within a fiscal system that has become seriously pathological. The cliff is the latest expression of that pathology. …. It should be a matter of acute national embarrassment that our leaders can pretend to be redistributing from wealthy to [...]

I am barely holding out hope the House GOP can grow a backbone and provide the nation a much needed fiscal wake up call come January 1. In other words, I hope the House lets the sequestration [a.k.a. part of the fiscal cliff] take hold. Because to be honest, the wired in spending cuts are [...]

You have to be a brain dead idiot to make a threat against a child as if it is some form of ‘political dialogue’: LANSING — A speaker at a union protest against right-to-work legislation said if Gov. Rick Snyder signed the bill he would get “no rest” and that protesters would be at his [...]

I was able to catch a bit of Rush Limbaugh yesterday and the short section I heard resonated with me. It also kicked off some thoughts on how the GOP is mishandling the fiscal cliff, and how to do it right. What the GOP is doing wrong is pretending they can get something out of [...]

The country is need of a wake up call. A brutal, ice-bucket-in-the-face, wake up call. The country needs to hit the fiscal cliff – which is just a way of facing the fact we need to deal with our out-of-control spending and the cost to all of us on getting right. I have not been [...]

So, AJStrata is not posting as much as he used to. Why? What’s he up to? What’s happened to the Strata Sphere? Where’s AJStrata? To be honest, he is (I am) very busy with Holiday activities with the family (preparation & celebration), end of year activities for the business, a new phase on an ongoing [...]