it.is.not.a.cliff.

not raising the debt limit, causing default now that's a cliff. or a deep hole or something sudden and irrevocably damaging. the return to tax rates does not hit us suddenly, it only affects us marginally in each paycheck so even if you taxes go up $2K annually it's $40 in each weekly paycheck. bad, but not the same as falling off a cliff. the biggest impact is overall demand reduction, that's also flet over time. it's a slope. oh wait, slope doesn't sell media, so let's all buy into the frank luntz theme tested republican word even if we are alt hip media.....we're democrats we can't be bothered to call the right wing on its lies, we prefer to adopt them.

btw, wasn't the debt the big looming crisis, doesn't falling off the fiscal cliff actually put us on a path out of the debt hole? you can't really have contradictory disaster metaphors. that is, unless you're a lying republican they seem to use them contradictorily and guess what, even progressives adopt those memes.