Amid 'Fiscal Cliff Pessimism" What Does Scott Brown Know?

     All we've heard in the last few days is that we're going over the fiscal cliff-though the record will show I've always been somewhat skeptical of that claim. Still Harry Reid's comment this morning that the fiscal cliff "seems like what we're going to do" has made more take this more seriously as a real possibility.

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/12/boehners-new-plan-for-abidcation-of-his.html

     It's not necessarily a bad thing to go over the cliff anyway from a Democratic standpoint-not to say we shouldn't prefer a deal but a bad one is surely worse than none.    

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-good-news-for-president-obama-at.html

     Now we have Scott Brown claiming that the President is finally "getting serious" about making an offer to the GOP.

     "While we're expecting Democrats to finally act, I don't have a specific timeframe," a GOP source familiar with the matter told TPM.

      http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/gop-source-were-expecting-democrats-to-finally-act

      I guess Scott Brown is a guy you should listen to-as he was the one who first started talking up Senator Kerry for Secretary of Defense, and he's exactly who we are no going to end up with. Brown might seem to have inside information.

      Turns out though, we have to take these claims about a "serious deal" with a grain of salt:

      "Update: TPM has learned that reports that the White House is about to send an offer to Capitol Hill are not accurate, or at best an exaggerated read-out of GOP discussions with President Obama."

  Update II: An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) also tells TPM the reports are "not true."

        Oh well. While I'd like a deal, I'm not so sure about a serious one. Serious means, seriously sticking it to the poor and middle class and poor while leaving the rich alone. As for the Dems 'finally acting' that's just more GOP chutzpah from a party whose House Speaker failed to even pass his "plan B" last week.