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At this point, the only people who don’t want the federal government to go off the fiscal cliff is the Republican leadership.

Obama is all in favor of going off the cliff, because through some convoluted schemes he hopes it will give him more power.

The conservatives in congress are of mixed minds, because they do not want to hurt the country or its people, but at the same time they know that the longer this mess lasts, the worse it is going to get.

But Obama and Reid seem to be determined to both drive the country off the cliff and blame the Republicans for doing it.

Ironically, even if the Republicans agreed to everything Obama wanted, he would still refuse, because he uses Adolf Hitler’s technique of negotiation: demand everything and offer nothing; and if the other side offers anything, take it and demand even more.

Hitler used technique this to get entire countries given to him by the weak willed Chamberlain, and by those who were terrified of “causing war by saying ‘no’”. It would not have been their fault, and they did not cause the war, even if Goebbles insisted that they had.

Negotiation doesn’t work when your opponent *wants* war.

About the only thing the Republicans could do to effect at this point is, the minute the government goes over the cliff, to impeach Obama on charges of dereliction of duty.

Only that would so rattle the Democrats and their media allies that typical Americans just might see that this is all Obama’s fault.

Granted, the senate would never try Obama, but that is not the purpose of the exercise. The purpose is to drag out the impeachment, subpoena cabinet officers and “Czars”, and create a gaudy show trial. A daily grind of accusations against Obama and his toadies, along with citations for contempt of congress to a bunch of them.

Call witnesses of government oppression to testify, dozens of them. Take over the news with a daily Watergate-style attack against Obama. The effect this had on Nixon was palpable. And Nixon had a hell of a lot more character than Obama.