POLITICS - Fiscal Cliff 4 Days to Go

"Congressional Leaders Talk More Politics Than Fiscal Deal as Deadline Nears" PBS Newshour 12/27/2012

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SUMMARY: Senate and House leaders Harry Reid, D-Nev., and John Boehner, R-Ohio, traded barbs over who's to blame for a lack of consensus for a budget deal. Margaret Warner talks to WNYC's Todd Zwillich about the looming deadline, only five days away, to avert automatic spending cuts and tax increases.

MARGARET WARNER (Newshour): Five days and counting with plenty of tit-for-tat charges, but no agreement in sight, that, in short, summed up the state of affairs in Washington today as the fiscal cliff deadline loomed, Jan. 1. It would mean more than $600 billion in across-the-board tax increases and automatic spending cuts.

In my title "4 Days" to do something.