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Why the Fiscal Cliff Is a Snooze

Faux Crisis

The debt ceiling kept us enthralled, but this is a faux crisis—so we’re all tuning out, says Howard Kurtz.

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From the outside, it must appear that Washington is gripped by high drama as the country faces the daunting prospect of plunging over the fiscal

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