"Get ready for gridlock"....MERRY CHRISTMAS !

[natalukjoe]

Obama
 wants tax rates and the debt ceiling to go up. Republicans want spending levels to go down. Get ready for gridlock
Up and up they go, America's twin pillars of profligacy: The $1.3 trillion annual federal deficit and the $15.7 trillion total national debt. The numbers, so massive that they are nearly incomprehensible, grow ever larger while politicians in Washington blame each other for the mess.
It's about to get messier. Because Republicans and Democrats can't agree on how to soak up this ocean of red ink, automatic
tax hikes
 and spending cuts — enormous and indiscriminate — are scheduled to rock the economy starting in January 2013. There's still time to avoid this meat cleaver approach, but that would necessitate both sides sitting down and having a thoughtful, civil discussion, which seems too much to ask for. Thus, the ax man cometh.
 The messy tax fight that will ruin Christmas - Yahoo! News

[justincase]

You tell 'em, Granny!