I wish the President would just stay on vacation until January 1st...

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47. Lawrence O'Donnell has a tutorial on it every night

Howard Dean speaks on it frequently

Here is an example

HOWARD DEAN: I make the argument that going off the — as you call it the curb, I call it the slope, the press calls it the cliff, is actually the best deal progressive Democrats are going to get. And here’s why. One, we get the Clinton tax rates on everybody. Will it cause a problem? Yes. There will be a short recession, and it will be painful. But two, we get defense cuts. Republicans are never going to agree to that. And three, there are some human services cuts, which we’re not going to like. But it’s the least possible damage.

Now what do we get in exchange? A serious down payment of the deficit. The Wall Street people, who wringing their hands of this, are really full of it because what they’re going to see is a big drop on Wall Street while all the hype comes and then it’s going to be roaring back because finally somebody has done something serious about the deficit.

So, I think the fiscal curb, as you call it, is the best deal that progressive Democrats are going to get. And I think it’s the best deal in the long run, not the short run.

Over the next two weeks the markets are going to be punishing the Republicans with a 15-20% reduction in market value.

Obama took the debt ceiling out of the equation and put the defense department on the table.

He has the Republicans between a rock and a hard place.

Just because you don't get it doesn't mean that the strategy isn't there.