As you heard last night, that's why we're putting in place the policies that will enable us to reduce the debt we inherited and deal with the spending required to keep us from falling off the cliff this year.
Keep in mind that the idea of the fiscal cliff was to make the tax hikes and spending cuts so draconian that Congress and the president would agree to a long-term budget deal to avoid them.
Maddon concluded his homestand-long effort to keep his team loose Wednesday by having a pair of penguins, Cliff and Shelly, in the clubhouse before batting practice.
Regardless of impressive strength from Cisco on strong earnings and Facebook despite a lock-up expiration, weak economic data, uncertainty over the fiscal cliff, and the escalation of a military conflict between Israel and Palestine have conspired to keep the pressure on equities.