Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is resisting pressure from Republicans pushing for the Senate to take a more active role to avoid the “fiscal cliff” after House legislation stalled Thursday.

Reid has rejected Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) assertion that avoiding the fiscal cliff now depends on President Obama working out a deal with the Senate. Reid’s allies said it is unrealistic to expect him and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to step in and hammer out an eleventh-hour agreement.
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With the talks between Obama and Boehner at an impasse, some Senate Republicans think getting a deal in the upper chamber first is the most likely path forward. Boehner’s failure Thursday to advance his “Plan B” proposal to extend income tax rates for family income below $1 million intensified concerns that he does not have enough support within his own conference to reach agreement with the president.

“We’re now in a bad spot,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). “I hope we don’t go over the cliff but I think we are.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/27441...on-fiscal-cliff

These incompetent sorry excuse for "leaders" have had all year to reach an agreement. I'm sick of all of them!

This is Obama's fault. He doesn't want any kind of deal. He wants to over the cliff because he wants to cripple the Republican Party.

It sounds like both parties will be crippled. The democrats will blame republicans and vice virsa...nothing will be different than it is now...in the mean time, the rest of us will suffer from their incompetence.

The only pressure Dingy Harry feels is when his Depends get too full. He and Zero WANT to go over the cliff. It is how they plan to "balance" the budget. Just read the interview with the Des Moines Register with Zero right before the election. He openly says that the sequester is how he will cut spending. It is no secret.

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These incompetent sorry excuse for "leaders" have had all year to reach an agreement. I'm sick of all of them!

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