While most pundits in Washington believe that, when it comes to solving the fiscal cliff, President Obama has the upper hand, I look at the problem completely differently. Yes, when it comes to the cliff, President Obama is winning, and the GOP looks like complete losers to most people. But that's because to most people, government has a place in our day-to-day life. But to the Tea Party, the government is something that needs to be small enough to, in one person's word, "put in a bathtub and drown". Think the people who believe that are scared of making the government smaller and going off the fiscal cliff? Of course not! And there are over 80 Tea Party people in the House who are hard core enough and believe in the Tea Party mantra over country enough that they'd never sign a bill that would do anything but make the government smaller. To them, that's all they got elected to do, and that's the only bill they'll sign.
So no matter what bill is finally signed, don't expect a unanimous vote. When a party is trying to starve the government and kill it if at all possible, taking it over a cliff is just a step in the right direction to them.
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