Hitler also went over the cliff. It enabled him to consolidate his powers.

The president used his weekly Saturday radio address vowing to work straight through the week on the crisis, even begging the Democratic controlled Senate to at least pass a Constitutionally mandated Budget Bill for the first time in four years, while House Speaker John Boehner used much of the Republicans´ weekly address to announce they were all jetting off to Hawaii, at huge government expense, to play golf.

Or, something like that?

Are Democrats dumb (yeah, duh) or do they have a hidden plan here?

They see their chance of getting total power and they are seizing it. They will think about other things later. First things first.

What tempts Obama to be so reckless. . . weakness on the other side! Remember how long the muslims kept believing that American would quit after they exact a few casualties and the media helped by showing endlessly every flag draped coffin coming off the aircraft? Now it will be that difficult for a good leader to stop this lunacy with the budget and debt.

Creating another crisis in order to take advantage of it.

#6, BINGO!

Who says liberalism isn´t a mental disorder? The progressive reporters and bloggers were long since conditioned to believe Obie´s every word.

The only economic disaster about which the Resident may be concerned is extracting enough tax money from the Makers to keep the Takers employed in government. The economic disaster for the Makers started 4 years ago.

He’s precipitating an economic chaos in order to assume extraordinary power.

Having Obama push the economy off the cliff offers this quite mean & very delusional man child several positives:

A. The Bush tax rates expire. Restoring the same rates on those earning less than $200,000 means it now the Obama tax cuts. He will proclaim how the rich will finally pay their fair share at the State of the Union .

B. As economy falters, he can call for yet another massive stimulus for his favorite groups: teacher, police, fire and state/municipal unions.

C. He can blame the racist GOP for wanting his black half to fail. "Boehner´s KKK pushed the economy back into the ditch". To BO, life´s a ditch.

D. While all eyes are on tax negotiations, his EPA, Energy and Commerce Dept will be issuing new regs.

E. His foreign policy disasters are also overlooked.

#3 "..Are Democrats dumb (yeah, duh) or do they have a hidden plan here?.."

All of the above!

If his spending train gets derailed I´m all for it. Next up, dismantle the EPA. Then you can impeach the Won for any number of things.

Why not send him packing? The House of Representatives, by a simple majority, show he is unqualified for office under the 20th Amendment, paragraph 3. They can refuse to seat him.

It is easily done. His father was a British citizen, born in British East Africa. And under British law, citizenship passes from father to son. Nor are they allowed to renounce their status.

Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution is clear. All American citizens were British citizens before the War of Independence, and afterwards until they died. A special provision was made for them to hold the office of President--every citizen was a British citizen--if,only if, they were born before the Constitution was ratified. It required a generation of children born after that date to produce another generation who were qualified to be President.

President -elect Obama is a British citizen, a son of his father, and unqualified for office. All it takes is a majority of the House to send him packing.

Why should he care? Obama knows going over the fiscal cliff will only hurt those who despise him and/or those who didn´t vote for him. He´s an angry politician with literally no vision.

Not so much "chicken" as vulture. He´s waiting for our whole capitalist system to collapse and then his whole Marxist flock will swoop in to pick it clean.

Economic disasters are engineered by Progressives to grow government.
That´s what they do best.

Big business gets their "cut"!
Small businesses get screwed!
Main Street foots the bill!

As soon as America and the Media figure this out, they are "toast"!

Think about it........

Taxes go up for everybody.
Obama rides to the rescue to LOWER taxes and save the economy.

We never ever have to hear the phrase "Bush Tax Cuts". Forever more, we will talk about the "Obama Tax Cuts".

Obama gets to blame the Republicans for taxes going up...because the insisted on protecting the rich. And does ANYONE think for even a second that the press will be honest for even a second.

This is a three way win for Obama, the treasoncrats and the press.

ABC news offered a rehash of 2012 events this a.m. - guess what - they are still avowing that crazy video as the cause of the Benghazi murders. More proof of major fracture of the progressive mind/brain or whatever it is they have between their ears.

Looming economic catastrophe + likely assault weapons ban (maybe even a try at confiscation) = a crisis not likely to be wasted by the tyrants in charge.

What can the Democratic Party gain from all of this chaos that would acutally be worth it?

#14 - the problem with your otherwise excellent idea is that a strong case can be made that Franklin Marshall Davis is Obama´s real father. Compare photos of the two. Davis was 6´ 2" tall and so is Obama. Davis noted in one of his writings that he had had sex with "Anne". If Davis is Obama´s True father, this adds incentive to hide Obama´s birth certificate. Be all of that as it may, Bonehead Boehner and the Gutless Old Party wouldn´t persue removing Obama out of their fear of the media.

Wonder what the port strikes (East and West Coast) will contribute to the mix? With politicians and unions it should be a really toxic situation.

How can returning to Clinton taxes be called a cliff? We´re told that was the golden era. Bush tax cuts for the rich are blamed for junk loans, high unemployment, heatburn, flat feet and cancer.

#6 and 7 - bingo, bingo. If the Republicans weren´t so incompetent, disorganized, and fractured, they would be shoo-in to turn this into a political gain as well having a positive effect on the economy. Boehner must go before the G.O.P. will be able to make any positive strides in turning this fiasco around.