Fiscal cliff deadline hangs heavy as Obama makes final plea to Congress

From guardian.co.uk

President Barack Obama made a final pitch to Congress to act on the fiscal cliff on Sunday, citing Republican intransigence as Senate leaders struggled to bash out a last-minute deal. In a rare foray onto the weekly round of political talk shows, the president sought to put the blame for looming economic crisis firmly at the door of the Republican party, accusing his opponents of having "trouble saying yes" to any proposal put before them. "They say that their biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deficit in a serious way, but the way they're behaving is that their only ... (full story)