So why all the talk about going over the cliff tonight?
If they can just vote whenever, then what was the rush about midnight?
The "fiscal cliff" was a successful media creation of the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms. "We must stop global warming NOW or the oceans will rise and we'll all be drowned!" "We must stop the Africanized killer bees NOW before they migrate north and kill us all!" "Radon..!" "Black mold..!" "Lead-based paint..!" "DDT..!" Etc.
Alarmist, apocalyptic stuff sells, and the political scum fall for it every time... because the massive, ignorant chattering class (ie., the people who elect scum like Ubama) fall for it every time. The fact is, whatever legislation comes out of this "crisis", if any, can be passed a month or two months from now and simply made "retroactive".
They've done it before.