Republicans Now 100 Percent AWOL From Fiscal Cliff Talks
Republicans Now 100 Percent AWOL From Fiscal Cliff Talks
—By Kevin Drum
| Thu Dec. 27, 2012 7:49 AM PST
John Boehner gave up on fiscal cliff negotiations after he was unable to get House Republicans to agree to any proposal at all, even one that he himself had crafted. The fate of the Republic, he said, was now in the Senate's hands. So how is Mitch McConnell handling things?