Mitch's fiscal cliff

From today's Courier-Journal:

Mitch McConnell believes the grown-ups in charge waited too long to find an alternative to the steep tax hikes and drastic cuts in government spending scheduled to take place Jan. 1 unless Congress does something.

"This is a conversation we should have had months ago," complained the leader of the Senate Republicans. "But here we are, once again, at the end of the year staring at a crisis we should have dealt with months ago."

...That’s pretty rich, coming from Mr. McConnell, who as the Senate’s top Republican, dedicated the last 24 months trying and failing to ensure President Obama was "a one-term president." Mr. McConnell’s other preoccupation, apart from raising money toward a sixth term in the Senate, appears to be filibustering almost anything proposed by Democrats.