Yep. Was thinking the same thing. Now, rather than Romney having to deal with unraveling the fiscal cliff and everything else Obama can “inherit” his own messes.

yep it will happen but the O will never be held responsible for his failures the media the small children they are will find many ways to blame others the rich,Bush,people with jobs the congress especially Boehner and Paul Ryan.

Know darn well if Romney had won, the Senate dems would block any efforts to reduce spending and size of gov’t that would have actually been effective and he would have been accused by the media of extremism. Then they would have accused him when everything hit the fan. Most people know that the debt is out of control in the back of their minds but haven’t accepted what needs to be done to fix things. I honestly think things are going to have to hit the fan and people are going to have to experience for themselves the consequences of the fiscal insanity before we finally get a widespread devotion among a strong majority of the people before we get REAL deficit reduction. Sooner or later there will be austerity measures put into effect and this will finally get the government out of the way and we can rebuild again. One way or another the freebies will come to an end. Anything that is not essential to national security and infrastructure will have to be axed. Even Obama as wreckless as he has been on spending knows that the current path is not sustainable. No one wants to be remembered as having been in office when the USA ran out of money. Now not having to worry about his base abandoning him because he can’t run again, he either works out a bipartisan measure with Congress or he leaves office being remembered as a total debacle in both terms who bankrupted the country. We know that Obama will throw anyone under the bus to maintain his popularity like he did with Rev Wright. I believe he will do this with his base if signing a spending reduction bill means an increase in his popularity. I believe most Americans are willing to work if they have to whereas the Greeks are lazy by nature. One way or another sooner or later the freebies will be axed and people will demand balanced budgets and fiscal conservatism once again when they finally experience the consequences bloated government. Even if our officials do nothing at first, the problem will autocorrect itself as they will no longer be able to promise handouts to their constituents. It won’t be individual responsibility vs. government help, it will then be individual responsibility/austerity measure vs. bankruptcy. Regardless of whether Obama decides (which I’m not very convinced of) to do the right thing or not, the problem will eventually autocorrect itself. The sooner the better.